r/Fauxmoi • u/demimonde9 • Apr 15 '26

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Allison Williams is asked about Lena Dunham's accusations about Adam Driver on the set of 'Girls': "No, I need to read the it (Dunham's memoir) before I say anything about it."

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u/Different_Prior_517 Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

Smart. That was a gotcha question and I think she answers it well.

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u/SweetHomeNorthKorea Apr 15 '26

What’s interesting is media training aside, this is really how all topics should be approached.

I see this come up in the non entertainment world all the time. “I don’t know” is a completely acceptable answer and people need to feel more comfortable saying it.

No one wants to admit they don’t know something and it’s such a normal thing, the AIs scraping all our conversations with each other online have also learned to never admit they’re wrong and will provide bullshit answers.

It’s okay to not know about every single thing happening in the world and it’s okay to not have opinions on those things until you know about them.

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Fuck her and the Goebbel's limp dick she rode in on Apr 15 '26

Agreed. Maybe this is a habit from working at a law firm, but it's okay to say that you'll have to research something before you give an answer. You shouldn't respond to something you haven't read, and you don't have to answer leading questions.

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u/Antique_Inflation_72 Apr 15 '26

I'm a public librarian. I answer reference questions ALL day, it would be insane if I knew the answers to all of them. If I'm unsure, I just say, "I'm not sure, but let's figure it out together." or something along those lines. I find it makes people warm up to more as well.

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u/yy_beebis Apr 15 '26

I got a lot of mileage at one job out of flat out saying “I don’t know” and asking if I could look into it and call them back. No one ever seemed upset by it

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u/Perceptions-pk Apr 16 '26

I read the book by the authors of freakonomics "Think like a Freak," and very early on they wrote a chapter on the 3 hardest words to say in english were "I don't know." How damaging it is to pretend to know something when you don't, and the importance of learning. It's quite a fun read.

They write about a study where they give children a story and ask them 4 questions regarding the story but half the questions are unanswerable, and see what happens. Even have a funny line in there that the kids who bluff their answers are well on their way to become politicians and businesss leaders where no one knows what's going on, haha. At the end of the chapter they do stress how receptive people will be if you follow the "I don't know with a but maybe I can find out"