There are nepo babies who are incredibly talented and most likely would have succeeded on their own. Dakota isn’t one of them. She has the energy and charisma of vanilla pudding.

I feel like the nepo baby thing only comes up when the talent is in question. For all Jamie Lee Curtis complains about the nepo baby issue (and maybe it was a thing for her around the original Halloween era, I don’t know), it’s been decades since anyone questioned the fact that she was just loaded with talent and…

I totally understand why she’d prefer people not talk about it. It would certainly be easier and more comfortable for her, and for all rich people, if we didn’t point out that, just as money and connections aren’t available to the majority of people, being self-made is not available to them. The average person…

I agree. It’s fine to do what your parents do, but it’s also fair game to point out that influential parents get you further than talent or hard work. 

Yep. That’s a terrible typo and I unsarcastically apologize to the world.

“If you’re a journalist, write about something else,” `

is a boring topic? or is it instead a manifestation of broader cultural feelings regarding the ability to advance in our society?

It’s been my experience almost no one fully understands their own privilege because even the cushiest life has some challenges.

It is a boring topic. People can talk about Dakota Johnson being a terrible actor with no charisma without bringing up the nepo baby part.

“Despite its wild success, it has been cast as unserious, unintellectual smut.”

Bingo. An engaged parent notices in elementary school if their kid is falling behind and tries their best, within their means, to do something about it for the next however-many years. What they don’t do is wait until college time and then buy their kid into a college where he’ll have no chance of keeping up with the…

This follows her because 1) she is an adult and 2) what she did was clearly wrong and dishonest. She should have known better on all levels.

Despite its wild success, it has been cast as unserious, unintellectual smut.

Most of what I know about this is from the terrific documentary on Netflix, but as I understand it: $5 mil is no longer enough to buy your kid into a competitive school. That’s what the scammer told everybody, but a bunch of experts seem to confirm it. You need like $50 mil to guarantee buying your kid in these days;…

Sometimes actors are very good at acting but lack other important life-skills.

If her daughter ‘raised’ 15k for a legitimate charity & did a few hours of volunteer work they’d have recommended her to USC or whatever school it was anyway.

Huffman’s “troubles are all about how afraid she was and how much she loved her child.”

Celebrities often cultivate an image of being nice, ordinary people. Once in a while there’s a crack in the facade, and you can get a glimpse of what kind of person that celebrity actually is. The crack in her facade revealed a particularly ugly quality. I think that’s why it’s not going away.

I’m okay with missing out.

I love the entire ASOIAF series - the main book, Dunk and Egg, loved Fire and Blood. I only got about a quarter of the way through the 4th Wing, it was so awful to me - on the same level as Twilight (and I loved those dumb books). I was expecting something more like ASOIAF and so when I got Twilight with dragons and…