The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Two-faced phony-baloneys.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗
Being mean online.
Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought. Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse. You do not want to drift into self-pity.
Narcissism. And people coughing on me in public.
I hate it when my little brothers don't close their mouths when they're eating.
Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.
At a function for the True Colors Fund, where formerly homeless gay and transgender kids were telling their stories. It was heartbreaking.
I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.
Long walks with my husband. Being with my family. Making music, and writing when songs just fall together. And maybe a cannoli. Just one.
I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.
A world where greed rules.
John Lithgow, Henry Winkler, Michelle Collins, Kelly Hoppen, Shobna Gulati, Antonio Banderas
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