She doesn’t strike me as a Thinker. Does she strike anyone that way? I thought she was sort of like a pretty monkey people have around because it can do amusing things and if it dies nobody will really care.

This comparison is apt IMO. I feel like both of them could have written something halfway interesting but our society has a niche market for “blonde trainwreck”, so they took the low-hanging fruit. I’m so bored of this trope and I wish both would go away.

God, there’s nothing worse that someone who thinks they’re being edgy but is really just being stupid. They always think we can’t handle them. No, you’re just annoying. Go away.

Sooo... basically Tucker Max as a woman?

Reading Cat’s memoir right now and I have to say, Wurtzel is a LOT better at writing.

That’s what really pisses me off. So many talented people work their asses off and get nowhere because they lack connections. She falls ass-backwards into these glamorous, well-paying, high profile jobs and acts as if she’s doing everyone a favor by merely showing up instead of staying home and snorting coke. Fuck…

She’s wearing a wig in the photo above because she’s lost all of her hair. So there’s that.

Eh, she’s mentally ill. But also from a wealthy background, connected with underground Manhattan (drugs help make friends, kids!), and a constant car crash with the ability to describe it all well. Oh, and young, white, and attractive by NYC media standards.

I mean, I get what you’re saying, but honestly Bukowski and Hunter S. Thompson are just as tedious. Anyone can drop acid. Do something fucking interesting with all that incredible intellect you have.

That part I don’t like either. I didn’t mind, didn’t care when she wrote about her disastrous life on xojane, but giving her $500k is everything that’s wrong about publishing in a nutshell

She looks like she smells like Russell Brand’s armpits mixed with Britney Spears’ Fantasy perfume.

That excerpted paragraph has soooo many “I’s.”

Yeah, the fact that people keep insisting she’s such a talented writer is perplexing. She writes like any mediocre blogger.

Friends who drink nosebleeds — ohhhh, yeah, how deep and interesting!

Remember Cat Marnell’s essay about how abortion is bad and terrible and totally murdering a baby, and yes she’s had lots of them and will undoubtedly have more because she hates condoms and birth control makes her fat which makes it perfectly acceptable in her case, but they’re still horrible when anyone else has…

so glamorous...

en serio... who cares about some privileged blondie who threw her life away to do some drugs? It’s pathetic how she got a $500,000 book advance when there are more talented writers working in day jobs and trying to send out unsolicited emails to publishers during their free time. I read her stuff on xoJane and she’s…

Also INCREDIBLY tedious. That passage above is supposed to be an example of compelling writing? Oh, for Chrissake.

Oooh! A story about a “glamorous” rich kid who does drugs! We’ve never been down this road before!

Drug memoirs are so boring. I can’t decide which I like less - new mom think-pieces or reminiscences by a junkie.