Carrie Brownstein: What is the trait you most deplore in others?

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.

Recorded Carrie Brownstein said elsewhere, not written here

Willful ignorance.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

Lack of empathy.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗

Bigotry and cruelty in any form.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Shakin' Stevens Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter

Bullying, whether face to face or online.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2023 source ↗

Eleanor Tomlinson English actress

Narcissism. And people coughing on me in public.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2024 source ↗

That it takes a week for someone to discover my body.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Tristan Harris.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Driving solo across the country from New York to Washington State.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Reading a book with a dog asleep on either side of me.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 August 2018 source ↗

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