My apology out of the way: I stand behind what I said. As far as your assertion that no one believes that she honestly believes that brides and abuse victims are the same, there are actually several comments on this article that more or less make that exact claim. And the article's title itself is "Job Applicant:…

Ahem, I should have made clear that I was talking in a more general sense when I used the words you're and yourself. I was not referencing you specifically. Im sorry.

I think context matters here too. If this was something that the woman had said in her ROLE as a victim advocate to an actual victim, then I'd be like yeah, rake her over the coals good for this. But as it is, she's trying to convince a potential employer that she has relevant skills, apart from simply a degree, that…

The difference between what you're saying and what this person did is that she apparently actually has a degree in this field and is simply trying to leverage past work experience as best as possible to make a case for having the job, while you're talking about people who have no relevant qualifications applying for a…

It might not have specifically named the person but unless she sent this exact same cover letter to multiple employers, its a pretty good bet she'd be able to identify who leaked this. I don't think she has her head up her ass. There seems to be this weird strain of idea that floats around the internet these days that…

I just can't get behind the idea that she was making a direct comparison. She wasn't in any way saying that both experiences were exactly the same or even of the same gravity. She was more or less saying that they both had elements that made people vulnerable and that she had skills that would work to that advantage.

Yeah, especially in a job market where it seems like even entry level jobs require 2-3 years of experience (which is code for unpaid internship, more often than not).

On the one hand, it sounds like a rookie mistake of trying to conflate a job that in all reality probably has little in common with the one she's applying for. It took me a while to learn to not list my entire work history on resumes and to stick to the most applicable experience. A lot of people do this. And…

The one thing that always gets me down about history and how it is taught is that, almost unique to just about any other major academic area, it is always compiling more information and with a finite amount of time for students, how do we go about culling stuff and getting to the most relevant parts of our history?…

I've always thought that America was the greatest nation in the world in a strictly academic, theoretical sense. Like I think a lot of the principles that we hold in general as a nation are solid, but I think that we've had a long history of both simply failing to live up to them always (which is understandable, as no…

Here-fucking-here! While I've never taught in a public school since I got my degree, I also got my education license for history, and it absolutely drives me up the wall whenever I hear someone advocate for essentially whitewashing American history. The thing is, its not like history curriculums as they currently…

Apparently Patton Oswalt was wrong and Germans do have a sense of humor.

I've wondered about this, like is he even actually designing this stuff? Or is he just essentially paying lesser known or newer designers to design things and then just slapping his name on them?

No, but rumor has it that Oppenheimer could fucking shred on a guitar...

Ah, for some reason I thought process servers were exclusively government employees, not something that I would guess fall under the broad title of government contractor.

Also, couldn't that probably be a fireable offense? I mean, depending on the guidelines of the process server's employer. It just seems like something that would be a common sense thing: don't make a big to-do out of it, get in get out quickly, etc. etc.

I dunno, I'm sure somehow he'd think of a way to justify any screen adaptions of his own work as somehow more high brow and generally better than whatever else anyone has done.

Of course, Franzen has a history of having a sort of snobbish relationship to non-literary fiction genres in general, regardless of the gender of the author. I'm sure he probably fucking hates writers like Stephen King, "An author, whose books have been made into m-m-m-m-movies? Well, I never!" *faints*

The thing is, if I was Franzen, I'd likely read one of her novels, if only to sate my curiosity. Perhaps Weiner's stuff is garbage, I don't know. But if I was going to pick a fight with her, I'd at least read some of her work so I could say 'Yeah, I've read her, I don't think she's very good, I don't think her lack of…

That you're going to be swallowed by a whale?