You make a fine point — though it's striking that the commentators most invested in this viewpoint tend to be VERY quick to point out perceived intellectual shortcomings.

That's a very sensible hypothesis (though I suspect the data from other forms of objective intellectual competition are likely not too supportive).

I don't disagree a jot. But it's pretty much the antithesis of the Gawker Media house style in re: questions of racial/ethnic proportionality and representation.

Seems like "focus on raising the supremacy of your kids" is damned good advice regardless... why does it only apply to putative "white supremacists"?

...and suddenly Groupthink makes sense.

Ya know, that'd actually make a decent Google interview question: "Using any of several standard statistical distributions, explain the utter mathematical implausibility of a 5% sample of a population having a left-hand tail that exceeds the right-hand tail of the remaining population."

Google is 15 years old, and has a market cap of $380 billion. It's not exactly Exhibit A for the perils of workforce homogeneity, is it?

Wasn't really the ideal choice of words, was it?

"There are literally 6+ billion manifestations of humans on the planet, yet .0000000000000001% of them are represented..."

"This was one of the most uncomfortable and terrifying experiences of my life..."

It's pretty amazing, isn't it? He might as well have written "Ewwww, girl bits"

Haha. Building independent wealth would be at the very core of empowerment, by most definitions.

Jeez, Kelly. If you want better coverage of Jessica Simpson, write better coverage. Her pop songs and film career are irrelevant to her current career (and net worth) in the clothing biz.

It's not that the premise is obscure; it's that the execution is so leaden.

OK, good clarification. I read "insanely lucky" as meaning "it's brutal to not get through grad school with a minimum of financial stress." My point - trivial though it was - is that surprisingly few people aspire to that trajectory, even given perfect support, information, etc.

I wanna laugh... but what's the word in question?

I was addressing two comments that offered up assertions ("guy never attempted to date" "guy's dad was a bigshot") which look to be clearly wrong.

Second-unit AD is a step above makeup and craft services for sure... but it's an awful long way from "someone big".

Hard to tell, isn't it? Maybe that the Kazakhi rape joke works for an (additional) reason she overlooked? Or that her SATC joke should have used a different verb?

Assuming that everyone desires your life trajectory is an odd sort of blinkered privilege in itself. I'm thinking of an awful lot of high-school-educated contractors, from scrappy backgrounds, making $150-250K a year who'd look at your narrative with a mixture of horror and sympathy.