Seconded. More ANYTHING from Jane Marie.

lol

No, she was doing her job the way other critics do their job which is why they have special screenings for the press.

I think the evidence is ample that the term “whip smart” is applied to (full-grown) men just as much as it is to anyone else, but are we really not going to talk about whether or not it’s appropriate to use the phrase to describe an African American woman, especially when critiquing her knowledge of Black history in…

when we adopt our indigo children on the astral plane we will send them here after free range homeschooling so they can socialize

In my day, the After School Satan Club was just called television.

Good hair now cares...

I actually came to the comments to ask this very same thing. I’ve been hearing HRC referred to by many as “whip smart,” and I can’t recall ever having heard a man described that way. It would seem precious even to hear someone describe a male presidential candidate as “whip smart.”

I could have told her that Rebecca was a bad password. We get it — You love Daphne Du Maurier. Who doesn’t?

I’m trying to find a source for your claim. Can you help me out? I tried googling the etymology of whip-smart, and literally the first example I come across is the NYT describing Marco Rubio, who is decidedly not a woman, as whip-smart. What I’m mostly finding is ‘whip-smart’ is derived from when ‘smart’ used to mean…

I read casting breakdowns, constantly. And yes—at least in Hollywood—“whip smart” is used almost exclusively (and incessantly, BTW) to describe women characters.

Sigh.

OMG, he’s so sexy! I wanna lick him from head to toe, including that stupid hair.

I’m going to assume...no. Only sarcastically.

To be clear, however, this account is solely John Doe’s version of events; Jane Doe’s testimony and complaints to the Columbia remain in sealed records.

Just going through Google News it came up pretty equally applied to men and women.