That is exactly what happened to Wurtzel, which is part of why I think she was struggling so much with aging. Then the irony was that cancer ensured she would never actually become old. 

INSANE factual error. And it hasn’t even been fixed. Good God.

I find that most people who say they look “10 years younger than their age” don’t actually look 10 years younger than their age. At all. We often can’t really SEE our own aging, because we look in the mirror and don’t really track the slow changes taking place. And other people tell us we look younger to “be nice” or…

I mean — say what you will about the quality of her writing, etc., but the book WAS a bestseller. So there were obviously people out there who cared about it, and I think many of them were from our generation.

I completely get that she was a difficult personality and polarizing figure, but if you’d ever read Prozac Nation or her other writing, you’d know that her parents were not rich at all. She grew up with a single mom and a largely absent dad who wouldn’t even give her money for mental health care when she was in…

He was 19. That is young but it is not underage. So what real-world consequences would she be facing, exactly?

People do not understand how generations work. They think everyone from age 55 to 100 is a boomer, and they think millennials are still teenagers.

‘90s nostalgia has been very big for a while now. It isn’t just starting.

Really? Flannel shirts, Seattle grunge, Sassy magazine, Kurt and Courtney, The Real World/rise of reality TV, vinyl cred, etc. The ‘90s have a DEFINITE vibe. And there has been huge ‘90s nostalgia happening for a while now. The ‘90s were almost THIRTY years ago. For teens today, that’s ancient enough history to be…

There aren’t just “rumblings” of ‘90s nostalgia. Kids today are full on into ‘90s nostalgia. Do keep in mind the ‘90s were almost 30 years ago. Teens today aren’t into the ‘80s nearly as much as they are into ‘90s — because the ‘80s were FORTY years ago. That would be like ‘90s kids being into the 1950s. Not so much.…

Yeah, the Culkins are kind of weird looking, and have been ever since they were little kids, but they aren’t ugly, exactly. There is something sort of cute there, kinda. I don’t know. I think Kieran is OK looking, not super hot, not horribly ugly, just kind of typical human-like (most of us aren’t really hotties,…

Is Kieran objectively unattractive? He has that total Culkin look that all the siblings have; those genes are STRONG. You’re either into it or not, but they are all essentially twin-like. 

Woodward is NOT a boomer. He’s a member of the “silent generation.” 

He was 75. That’s still a very decent run. The only thing you are really missing out on when you die at 75 is truly old age. Not such a bad thing, perhaps.

I mean -- she’s not a CHILD. She’s a teenager. A 15-year-old is no longer a little girl, she is an adolescent. 

Not wife. Mia and Woody were not married.

Woody and Mia were never married. At least get the basic facts straight. It’s a seedy story, sure, but you are just wrong here.

I do not even understand how this happens, unless perhaps she was super knocked out on Ambien or something. It’s LOUD when a plane lands and people deplane, and the lights are bright overhead, etc. Who could sleep through that?

ALSO — Gen Z is having LESS sex, doing LESS drugs and drinking LESS than their parents did, per numerous studies. The line about “This isn’t the ‘80s” is very out of touch, because high schoolers in the ‘80s were LESS likely to be virgins than high schoolers now.

Selfish and short-sighted? That kid is (I would assume) going to be one of Mick’s heirs, and thus get a nice chunk of change when Mick dies. Lots of kids don’t have their parents through adulthood, but how many kids are partial heir to a $350 million estate?