Damned if you do, damned if you don't

After reading the full article, I find that I dislike the writer more than Hathaway (though I never really had a problem with her to begin with).

Hrm. I'm torn about this. Recasting him as a "bad boy" is ludicrous. But at what point can you stop calling someone a racist, if he has apologized and pledged to reform himself? Is the present tense even correct in the headline? What do they have to do to prove themselves?

One of my biggest red flags for women is when one says "I just don't get along with girls."

I love Amy Schumer for essentially declaring that the male attraction to the Cool Girl is basically just veiled homoeroticism.

I'm the same way, and it's funny how shocked people are when you don't laugh at their shitty misogynist joke, because they totally thought you weren't one of those humorless bitches! The Cool Girl type is so ingrained in society right now that if you do happen to be a woman who likes/is knowledgable about sports,…

True. I think the "Cool Girl" is something that one can sort of fall into, especially if one actually likes some things that we're told are not "for girls" and rejects other aspects of the template of what it means to "be a girl". Combine with this with the young adulthood "special snowflake" phase many of us also go…

And "Cool Girl" is more similar to who I actually am than, for example, "Super Shiny Fashion PR Girl" or "Peppy Soul Cycle Sister."

Yeah, I think it's a phase a lot of women go through. I was totally a Cool Girl in high school. I thought that because I like football, video games, comics, and prefer whiskey to vodka I was different from the OTHER girls. I thought I could only get along with my select fellow Cool Girl friends as far as women went…

Ferry to Staten Island for a view of the Statue of Liberty

Rule Number 1: Be sure your audience is looking for advice, and not simply to vent their frustrations. If you are unsure, either ask whether they are looking for your opinion or hold your tongue.

Definitely. One could argue he's writing for a different audience here, but I definitely find it a little hilarious that his article isn't exactly accessible...though it almost feels purposely so.

One of my favourite failure quote was from one of Jim Carrey's speeches.

...failure was not something to be afraid of, that it was not the opposite of success...

Here's the deal. I have my opinion about Nickleback. I do not like their music at all. However, I feel so bad about how much shit we've given them, I'm going to stop giving them shit. Yes I know they make a ton of money etc. etc. but it is possible that they love what they do (not. biting. my own bait there) and…

-Muggsy Bogues could dunk, but not in a game. Add four inches and you've got Spud Webb who definitely could dunk.

I don't see it as flawed, personally. I think there is a place for practicality, but if everyone relied only on that there would be no one in Jim Carrey's place. I think your right, don't get me wrong. If your endgame is to have money and enough of it to support a family, that's just fine. Some like taking chances…

I've got to agree - that bit of advice feels pretty sketchy. I'm okay with having a transparent relationship with supervision to have general discussions about the content/quality of work, but using boredom as a means to get the company to spend money on you just doesn't seem like a good move.