I have a hard time believing that most people, in a social context, would be turned off from continuing to engage in someone because they are a magazine columnist. Personally, were I to witness someone writing off a whole human being because of such a normal job, I'd make sure to curate that person out of my life.

Why do you posit that?

Esquire basically makes their living off running inflammatory pop culture columns that range from "mildly titillating" to "purely objectifying". They're politically hated by conservatives and liberals, and are nearly indistinguishable from a tabloid in terms of content alone.

I curate my friend group to not have these sorts of talents among them.

I'd love to have more magazine columnist friends. I'm sure they have a lot of interesting stories about weird stuff they wrote about in the past.