Too Smart For This.

Too Smart For This.

Smart Girls Take Themselves (and their Fun) Seriously

4 assignments for the summer you stop settling for "good enough"

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Alexis Barber
Jun 03, 2026
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Things I’m disgusted by:

  • men dancing on tables

  • the color orange (sorry knicks/this excludes hermès)

  • leftovers

  • warm white wine

  • slow walkers

  • boring people

  • and my own mediocrity.

This is just a start, of course. Visceral disgust — the kind that makes you shudder on the street, trying to physically fling the feeling off your body — has been following me around la…

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