The hell you say

If the character that Mads Mikkelsen plays in “A Royal Affair” literally goes through hell, we’d be watching him in a fiery pit. Fortunately, the character only goes through a figurative hell, not unlike the hell the Yahoo! Movies writer has put us through:

Maybe that figurative hell was a result of his yearning for a transformative event — one that would turn him from a man to a woman and from a confidant to a confidante.

Charlie Gasparino’s gender reassignment

Newsman Charlie Gasparino gets a gender reassignment from the reporter for “The Cutline” on Yahoo! News:

A confidante is a female to whom secrets are confided; the word the writer should have used is confidant.

Quincy Jones: I’m confident he’s a confidant

Unless Mr. Jones has undergone a transgender transformation, he was Michael Jackson’s confidant, not a confidante as claimed by Yahoo! omg!:

A confidante is a woman with whom secrets are shared.