So true. Girls learn really quick that it’s so much easier to go through life acting sweet and deferring to others. When they assert their intelligence they’re labeled as bitchy and bossy.

That too. I think people are just reaching for excuses to be bitchy in the comments because an attractive woman dared to admit to being intelligent and it made them feel insecure and they don’t want to unpack that.

Right? I’m not even a fan of this woman but these comments radiate cunty insecure mean girl vibes. Making fun of her fillers? Judging her by the men she dated? Freaking out that she *gasp* mentioned her IQ when someone asked? It’s hard to identify a source for this much vitriol toward some random unproblematic…

I have to say I agree with her. Intelligence really threatens people and puts them off. Having to deal with people aiming that insecurity at you makes it harder to get them in your corner and work together. I can’t imagine what that’s like in show business with all the crazy egos anyway.

I can’t speak for myself, but my wife is top 1% in this regard, (school Valedictorian, first in class in her law class, possibly in her school in college as well.) She’s also objectively attractive. I would say subjectively, but I base it on the reactions of others, not just my personal feelings.

I think it’s hard to hear someone complain about having an abundance of something you wish you had more of. Obviously it’s harder to be poor, ugly, and stupid than rich, beautiful, and brilliant.  But it’s also true that having much more of something than other people can be isolating.  It’s lonely at the top, etc.,…

I liked her version of Emma. She played the character exactly as I imagined her when I read the book.

I know, the comments are so bizarrely vicious over someone answering a question about their IQ when asked. I can only assume people have hangups about their own intelligence to react so negatively.

This article and some of the comments remind me of the reaction some of my classmates had to the girl who was ranked second in my year at school. People she barely knew hated her guts because how dare she be so intelligent and academically successful, while also being conventionally attractive and not socially…

She was asked about it.  She didn’t all of a sudden say hey Howard Stern, guess my IQ?  Man, a lot of these comments are just like where is all this hate coming from?  No one cares about your negative reception on someone being smart.  You’d think more people would care more about that than their looks or what they’re…

How is it a sign of low intelligence to get fillers when you work in an industry that ruthlessly judges older women? This is a shitty take.

Yeah that’s fine, we are all human and flawed, but then she appears to have written a book where she shows zero self-awareness and little consideration for the victims.

You want to “both sides” a man with a rape button? Weird position to take but follow your rapist supporting heart, I guess.

That superficial charm and warmth that makes someone seem like a good friend also makes them a skilled sexual predator. They’re so expert at making you feel like they’re truly engaged and interested in what you have to say.

But he didn't use it on her! So it's okay!

Starred for “ubiquity as individuality.” Practically every “social media person” I stumble upon is indistinguishable from the next.  As always, I blame the kardashians.

Shit yeah. Superficiality has always been a problem, but it has been packaged to people so very, very successfully by social media. I can’t imagine being young right now, trying to connect to people, trying to start a career.  It’s incomprehensible.  Add to that the fact that I’m plain and opinionated, and I’d be…

It’s amazing how this generation coming of age and now in their 20s has basically been shaped by a society that has commodified and successfully sold ubiquity as individuality.

Ooooh, what a catch, this guy!