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& #39;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& #39;s response is not just professional and encouraging it is polite. And yet, she& #39;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& #39;s wild to me! Anyone I don& #39;t respect = someone I wouldn& #39;t attempt to work for. How do so many believe they possess the moral high ground?