Indeed! If you are going to be crazy in the Girl Interrupted tradition, you must be pretty, and traditionally feminine and submissive. Also fashionably skinny from cigarettes and stress.

“Is this an expiration date written on my back?”

What about Fox Books, the big bookstore that was killing the small bookstores in the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan romcom You’ve Got Mail!?

As long as the logo stays basically the same, just without the word ‘Fox’ on it, this doesn’t really bother me.  But if they ever stop using the musical fanfare, I will completely lose my shit.

Fox employees will thank Disney soon enough when Satan comes to collect Rupert Murdoch and points to a clause in his contract with a well manicured black claw where, written in blood, it stipulates that all current Fox employees will subsequently be collected and repurposed into squirming hell-maggots upon fulfillment…

That’s a fair point. I think it’s a useful term in many regards, but its over-application may have robbed it of much of that usefulness.

The coiner of the term MPDG, Nathan Rabin, has asked people to stop using it, as it is so overused and used so vaguely and broadly that it no longer helps anything. It just substitutes a term for insight.

“I still got the merch rights on this, right? . . .right . . . ?”

“Now... what can we cgi-enhance on you for next time?”

He’s just checking the midi-chlorian count is up to snuff.

“Yup, looks merchandisable.”

It’s still attractive in theory because if you are crazy, you can be helpless and it’s okay. People have to pick you up and you are excused from regular life.

And young. 

I am 55 and while I was at the perfect age to have been a Wurtzel reader - I never read her book(s). I had a friend who went to Harvard with her and his description (a very good guy) wasn’t all too flattering, but nothing outright mean either. She may have been a good writer and her book may have helped many women but…

And her medications never make her weight fluctuate.

Not to mention THINNESS. The crazy beautiful MPDG girl is always thin. 

We all need to be reminded not to stick your dick in crazy, otherwise you learn the hard way.

Hell, even now with a bestselling trilogy about Crazy Rich Asians, the crazy refers to the amount of wealth they have, not any behavior by the characters. 

Someone needs to tell the story about what happens when the beautiful crazy girl becomes the (still) crazy post menopausal woman because that's when shit gets real. 

NYMag/The Cut have published a few pretty white girls gone rogue stories in the last couple of years which were easily their most read stories. Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Delvey, Caroline Calloway are the manic pixie dream girls of the instagram/technology age.