<![CDATA[Making It - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Making It - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> @Wendy_Kroy: I believe, if I remember the article correctly, that she is a single mother, having had a child on her own (insemination maybe)? Surprising no one's scooped her up.

And the original problem I had with the article over and above the ridiculous concept of "settling" is her assertion that any woman over 30 (yes, that's 30) who is single and happy is obviously lying. She's a shrew.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> Nice guys. They finish.

curlyqtips

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> I'll never forget the day I asked my future wife, "Will you settle for me?" And she answered, "You'll suffice." It was so ... satisfactory!

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> @tracyflick: "No dear. You're just a bitter, entitled bitch. And that's why you're single."

Amen.

vivianlane

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> @tracyflick: I'm seeing the word "entitled" in a lot of your posts- here, JA Hater's club. Anything you need to, maybe, talk about?

TVAddendum

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> See, she didn't pay attention to Friends, that nice orthodontist Rachel left at the altar was sleeping with her maid of honor. I'm embarrassed that I know that. It throws her whole argument off, so I stopped reading it.

shag_carpet_bomb

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> Hollywood tries this shit all the time. Instead of successful well-dressed Peter Gallagher, she'll end up with furniture-maker-in-a-bomber-jacket... Bill Pullman (While You Were Sleeping). Instead of Mayor's son Tiffany-ring-bearing Patrick Dempsey, she'll end up with glass blowing rube Josh Lucas (Sweet Home Alabama). Instead of society-heir-to-millions James Marsden, she'll end up with bearded-house-remodeling-furniture-maker... (again?) Ryan Gosling (The Notebook).

WAY TO SETTLE LADIES!!!

whoneedslight

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> Book rights to an article? Isn't that how "Madame Bovary" started?

depardoo

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> I heart this article. I truly do. I work in the whole "dating" industry and I can't tell you how many women send in letters talking about how they're just so wonderful and magically look 10 years younger than their drivers license states and therefore should not settle but yet can not find a man because all men are shallow asshole intimidated by their smarts and success. No dear. You're just a bitter, entitled bitch. And that's why you're single.

tracyflick

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> @PickleTitsTurner:

That was inspired and delicious. Nicely done.

karion

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> And then Lori Gottlieb and Tobey McGuire fell in love ... and then they got married ... and oh ha ha ha and ha, she wrote an article for The Atlantic about how it turns out she was wrong about her first article, because it was SO worth it not to settle, because she ended up with TOBY FUCKING McGUIRE!!! ... and then every self-respecting single woman in the universe punched her in the face. The end.

And then someone read the above synopsis and optioned it, and ole Ginger R. became rich and powerful and got a Gawker star. The end.

ginger rant

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> I'm in a great long term relationship. We read these same books, have all our meals together, don't have any secrets, spend most of our time in one another's embrace. It's like we're one. Then again, I am in prison.

PickleTitsTurner

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> Reminds me of the time Zach Braff's production company optioned the book and movie rights to this comment.

Bell County

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> Such a waste of money to keep idiots busy with meetings.

There is no creative or legal need served whatsoever by purchasing an article to do a dumb romantic comedy that will inevitably take countless absurd liberties with the already ubiquitous and banal subject matter.

Hell yes, I'm non-player hating.

Dusty in the Wind

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> @ADismalScience: I'm in a long-term relationship and I thought this article was horseshit. But I'm not married yet, so who knows?

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> @Wendy_Kroy:

Her kid is totally going to need therapy, no question.
However (and this is the part about this stupid article that made me do a giddy dance of joy), Crazy Lady is NOT married. She is pissed off that she didn't settle back when she had the chance, and is talking out of her ass about something she has clearly never experienced (that is, the hell of living intimately with someone who bores/annoys/disgusts you) the better to generate outraged responses leading to a book deal and a movie option.
I would like to think once she cashes that advance check she'll realize being a single mother who's loaded is actually pretty fucking sweet.

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> And she did it all by herself! You're gonna make it after all, Spinster!

Jenniferhdaniel

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> She can use the money she earned to pay for therapy sessions for her kid. Nothing like growing up in a blatantly loveless marriage involving two incompatible people to ensure a lifetime of emotional issues and self-loathing.

Wendy_Kroy

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> This movie is going to be awful. It'll make millions.

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> Remember that thread? Where it was like all the people in long-term relationship or marriages agreed and the single people insisted on this concept of passionate, romantic true love in which you find THE ONE? I still chuckle about that from time to time.

What we're going to find out, though, is that she's half-right! This only applies if you have no money. When and if you do get money - say, if someone options your ARTICLE for a MOVIE (WHAT?!) - it's suddenly a lot more about you! And you totally don't have to put up with that slouching, complaining spouse when both liposuction and his income are inconsequential to you!

ADismalScience

]]> <![CDATA[Making It]]> Are you sure Tobey isn't seeing this as a documentary about his own life? He certainly negotiated quite a lucrative partnership.

Hez

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