I blew an interview for a job at GQ when I was just getting started in 2009. The office was an almost totally white space.

Were I in my 20s now, I wonder what my subconscious motivations would be in presenting what happened––both to myself and to anyone who'd listen on Twitter.

I think about that in the context of this. Every editor who is kind enough even to reply says a version of this on some subject to someone. This not just innocuous but, by editor-email-response-standards, super-polite reply is being used to present the recipient as a victim.

(h/t @neontaster)

Also, think about the fact––the wild sense of entitlement–– that this writer must have to say this in the context of admitting that she has a group chat in which the participants routinely make fun of the same editor who she also expects to assign her work!

Bari's response is not just professional and encouraging it is polite. And yet, she's supposed to come off as the bad one in all of this? And people actually buy that?

I repeat: This writer has an ongoing group text in which she *makes fun of* the very editor she simultaneously pitches her work to. That's wild to me! Anyone I don't respect = someone I wouldn't attempt to work for. How do so many believe they possess the moral high ground?