DoubleX Calls us CHARMLESS!

http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor/we-all-lose-our-charm-end

Faux intellect Bonnie Goldstein commented that the authors of SMART GIRLS MARRY MONEY are without CHARM. Us?

Yes, Bonnie, dear. I don't find it charming at all that men who earn only a high school diploma make more on average than woman with college degrees. Also uncharming is the alarmingly high poverty rate among women in their senior years. Even less charming is the (on average) 10% equity partners that women represent in large businesses like accounting and law firms. (I have more but the book is actually quite a fast read.)

Instead she fixes her focus on our naughty words and throwaway lines that were meant (in context) to add a little levity to an otherwise tragic circumstance of the continued inequality of women in the workplace.

I wouldn't have even commented on her thoughtless commentary except for two things. 1) it got picked up by SLATE, a zine I respect because of Michael Kinsley who I love above all others (except Fareed Zakaria and Stephen Colbert) 2) Authors of late have been scandously answering back their critics piquing the prurient interests of other faux intellectuals such as myself. Consider this:

Alain de Botton in response to NYTimes Critic: “I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make."

Ayelet Waldman, in response to Jill Lepore's New Yorker Review, tweeted, "The book is a feminist polemic, you ignorant twat. GOD I hate her."

Alice Hoffman in response to The Boston Globe's Roberta Silman tweeted, “Roberta Silman in the Boston Globe is a moron...How do some people get to review books? And give the plot away.” Then Hoffman posted the critic's private phone and email, inviting fans to “Tell her what u think of snarky critics.”

Hoffman got skewered and no longer tweets.