So guys. Personal story time. As it turns out, my husband and I are in therapy because he turned into a real solid dickbag last year and....well, anyway. The point is that a lot of our unhealthy dynamic centers around the fact that he is severely passive aggressive.

Trump wants that Godfather scene so bad, the one with folks kissing his ring. He’s got it from Christie, from Gentle Ben, from lil’ Marco, and many of the other asshat candidates that ran. That Cruz won’t gives Trump an enemy that will make him seethe. If Trump wins he’ll have Cruz & his sycophants working daily to…

Donald Trump and his whole campaign has been like a truth serum forcibly injected into the American bloodstream. Personally, I’m glad it’s all out there again like the bad old days, instead of the bullshit dogwhistles we’ve been living with for the past few decades.

Someone on Gawker the other day quite passionately opined that the remake clearly sucked because the actors come from Saturday Night Live.

... why did Star Trek have to be remade? Why did Fright Night? Why would literally any massively popular and moderately original movie be remade? Because the movie business is, first and foremost, a business, and they want to make money.

Oh dear. If behavior “unbecoming” was the worst of my sins I’d be several steps further from hell than I am. I think her character is just fine. My “short-sighted attitude”? Aunt Mabel, is that you? It’s so weird that I can hear you so clearly from the other side. I’d better go take a powder.

What?

I agree with everything you wrote here, just saying. It feels really good to be in a group of people who build one another up. It’s also necessary to take risks to be creative, and it can stop you dead in your tracks if you are around the sort of people who want to ridicule or pull you down. Sometimes I think women do…

And if it was between two men would there be an article about it?

I’m not saying their actions don’t count. I’m saying there’s no need to heap scorn on people for their harmless actions. And I’m saying that I see an anti-intellectualism I don’t like, as well as more sexist bullshit where we constantly try to knock other women down when they get “too uppity”. That does cause harm.

I think this is kind of mean spirited. So what if they were writing for a presumed audience. (Isn’t that what you do? Put what you feel is your best literary face forward?)

This seems more to me like two people who have backed each other into a correspondence corner. The sort of corner where you have to spend five minutes on wikipedia so you can begin your next sentence with ‘You know how in The Seventh Seal...’ Then your correspondent has to spend five minutes on wikipedia so they can…

The most interesting part of the profile to me is in light of another rumorthat Foer, years ago, left his successful author wife Nicole Krauss after becoming enamored with Portman, but failed to ask Portman if she was on board (she supposedly wasn’t, and stayed with her husband, ballet man Benjamin Millepied).

And so what? We must shame her so that other people don't think they're too smart too? Do you realize how petty and stupid that is?

Except being talked down to requires being talked to. This was their correspondence to each other. Someone decided to publish it. And so? It’s still not about you. Or anyone else. If anything, the flaw is that it’s a rather pointless publishing because who cares what these people have to say to each other? Their…

Yeah, I get you. And I think it’s telling that we have this reaction: you’re not that smart and I don’t like you. We’ve reached the point where we know it’s petty to be like “you’re not as pretty as you think you are”. But there's still some reason we have to criticize women for this.

I think it’s more of the too-cool-for-school anti-intellectualism. And it annoys the fuck out of me. Dog forbid you wander intellectually, and don’t self-deprecate enough - especially as a woman. One more fucking knife edge women have to walk: be smart but not too smart or else you’re a show-off, think but not too…

I'm doing the same thing with this that I would do if I walked in on these two ACTUALLY jerking each other off: I'm backing away slowly, closing the door, heading to the bar, and ordering another drink. Lavender Gimlet, in case anyone here wants to join.

Still not sure why there is so much hate for Natalie Portman on this site... Could someone please explain what she did wrong other than be that friend that means well, but comes off a little pretentious?

Examples of the negging? I got the impression that, while a lot of what they wrote is ...pompous, her references to her real life and family were just her setting good boundaries and clarifying her priorities.