Educated white woman fight! Watch your loafers.

Today, Salon scribe Megan Hustad's new piece, "You Are Not Your Bookcase," argues that "fave lists" — a person's "Heroes" on MySpace or "Favorite Books" on Facebook, for instance — are silly, juvenile forays into bullshit people need to abandon. To make her point, Hustad calls on the succincter, better Virginia Postrel, who says particular segments of society's eagerness to compartmentalize themselves "has turned us into self-handicapping snobs: Since we've taken so much care to craft our own perfect list, we feel more entitled to shrug off anyone whose list doesn't similarly impress." It's right on, but it's also a slap in the face of a New York Times piece smug masturbators from Brooklyn to Manhattan slavered over a month ago.

Remember Rachel Donadio's "It’s Not You, It’s Your Books"? If no, it was this sad, widely read essay about arrogant jerks who break up with people not because they are stupid, but because their books are, and it encapsulated in less than 5,000 words what's wrong with this city (this industry, this country, our friends, etc). Among others, the article contained this irksome wonder:

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