Holy Trainwreck, Batman

~ Laura

Elizabeth Wurtzel in New York Magazine. 

UPDATE: The reactions on Twitter are amazing. 

Two Amanda Marcotte links in one day. What a topsy-turvy world! Marcotte responds to Wurtzel. 

(Yes, most of the chatter around this article happened a day or two ago, which is like 1000 years on the Internet. Forgive me, but I'm catching up. Family business kept me away from obsessive Internet reading for a couple of weeks.) 

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6 thoughts on “Holy Trainwreck, Batman”

  1. There’s no way I could or would read that whole thing (who is this woman that I should care? “My life has a lot of problems” is the most banal thing in the world) but, in light of the rape statistics piece, I thought it was interesting that she would call the police but then not file a report. What does she think the police are going to do? If you file the report, maybe next time they come and arrest the woman, or put a warrant out for her, or something, but (especially for a law school grad, it seems) she has a pretty dim idea of what the police can or should do.

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  2. One of the comments said “This reads like the ‘Girl you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with at a party.'”
    Yup. Fortunately, on the internet, I can click away. I don’t really understand why there would be a twitter conversation about the piece, which is unreadable. Presumably schadenfreude from unpublished authors. Wurtzel is, I think officially diagnosed?, bipolar, which, in the short term at least, doesn’t have to conflict with either being beautiful or brilliant. Presumably she’s hitting the point where she’ll crash and burn.

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  4. I find it interesting the women are much more compassionate than the men. Many of the men are self-righteously critical.
    Why would anyone publish it? It’s rambling, disorganized, and of limited interest to anyone who doesn’t find the topic of “Elizabeth Wurtzel” fascinating. Are there any editors left at NYmag? If there are, they didn’t do themselves any favor by publishing this piece.

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  5. I couldn’t get through the whole thing. It reminded me of reading Bitch way back in the day. When I read her following book and realized she was on drugs the entire time she wrote Bitch it made a lot more sense.
    She needs a good editor. And she needs to not extrapolate her own experience to the entire world.

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