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HOW dumb is she?

posted 9 years ago by Jill-McBain
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Her email exchanges with Jonathan Safran Foer... Insufferable and STUPID.

Natalie Portman And Jonathan Safran Foer’s Emails Sound Pretty Much Like You’d Expect Them To

Famous (and according to some people, overrated) author and vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer recently interviewed his friend Natalie Portman for The New York Times’ T magazine to promote his upcoming book, Here I Am, and her upcoming directorial debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness. Since Jonathan and Natalie are ~intelligent~ types, they decided to do it through a series of pretentious-sounding emails. If you ever read a GOOP.com newsletter and thought “You know, this would be so much better if it was written by an Oscar-winning actress who also really wants you to know that she went to Harvard“, then these emails are for you.

Jonathan and Natalie are friends, but apparently they don’t write emails like us dum-dums do. Everything is capitalized properly, there’s no LOLs or FMLs, and they’re all long. Also, none of the emails end with a wacky signature, like “Sent from outer space – send help! I’ll die without oxygen out here!” or “Destroy this email before your French ballet dancer husband sees it.” Instead it sounds like they’re practicing for an admission interview to the Prometheus Society. There are so many emails, which you can read here, but here’s a few:
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http://dlisted.com/2016/07/14/natalie-portman-and-jonathan-safran-foers-emails-sound-pretty-much-like-youd-expect-them-to/

Never mind reading the crap itself, just move over to the comment section, far more intelligent and witty and funny.

[–] dexx-26415 8 years ago

Thesee ail are some of the worst things ever written.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15110) 6 years ago

She went to Harvard Law School and did nothing with that education. Need I say more?

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

She went to Harvard not Harvard Law School

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15110) 6 years ago

I'm not an Ivy League expert, so I wouldn't know.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Harvard college is pretty easy to get into if your an actor, they like to let in dumb celebrities in the hopes that they will donate money later on. Harvard Law School is a different beast, you have to have grades and do well on an entrance exam to get in there... No way she would be able to pull that off.... she's much too stupid.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

yes correct, goes for politicians families and people of note

The colleges let these types in, regardless of test score, because its good PR for the college

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

At least it wasn't Yale!

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Johnathon - "Let us list all kinds of pretentious activities and no one will ever question because we are magnificently amazing!"

Natalie - "Yes! Oh that is so wonderful! I was at the farmer's market today. The poor folk do make amazing food".

Blah, blah, blurrrrr...

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

She had an article published in an academic mathematics journal when she was a teenager. That's not very dumb.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15110) 6 years ago

And I care....why? Did she make a mathematical breakthrough or something? If she did, this would be the first I've heard of it.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Oops, it was actually a chemistry education journal, not mathematics. She also co-authored a published psychology article when she was in college

These may not have been major "breakthroughs," but published academic articles are reviewed by scholars, and usually do contribute something to the field. This is specialized stuff, not like putting something in the local high school newspaper, or even one of those popular magazines for the general public.

Have you done better?

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15110) 6 years ago

How do you know they didn't just give the award to her because she was famous, Jewish, female, and liberal enough? I haven't put much stock in Harvard's fake merits since I found out how biased and messed up the profs and students are there. You KNOW it's all a popularity contest these days, with people vying for the diversity award of the year.

And by the way, have YOU achieved anything better than that yourself? And has she actually DONE anything with this education besides doing very little acting and standing up for causes she doesn't really care about? I doubt she's become a chemist, or someone would have written about it by now.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I said nothing about awards. Having your work published academically is a vetted process, not an "award."

And I don't need to say anything about my own achievements. I'm not the one throwing unwarranted, bitter criticisms at somebody else's work and accomplishments.

As for "doing something with this education," plenty of people don't end up working in the field that they went to college for. And so what?? That's just par for the course! College is a time for discovery and expanding one's horizons.

You seem to have an axe to grind when it comes to somebody else's successes. But I don't have any more time for such negativity, so I'm done here.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

You were responding to someone who has proven to be very opinionated and bitter about various matters, ignoring inconvenient facts and logical reasoning, and single-mindedly sticking to spiteful biases. It's really for the best that this discussion came to an end.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

She has two credits in publishing... the first in the Chemistry was when she was in high school and was not the author just a lackey for two adults that wrote the paper. It was also not in a journal on Chemistry it was a journal on Chemistry Education... In other words a journal dedicated to how to teach chemistry... So not something people would really be bragging about but you can bet it was something someone applying to a college would yammer about to pad their resume.

The article when in college was for a Psychology journal which means, pseudo science as psychology is just something people with mental problem study in hopes of doing self help. As for the article it was about 6 pages of studying babies conducted by 6 "authors"... In other words it was just something a bunch of college students did to try and pad their resumes. No real study of any merit is going to be that short.

In short these works deserve as much recognition as the work done by your local graffiti artist that tags the toilet stalls with outlines of giant dicks.