I'm nearly done with "Girls on the Verge" and am so annoyed with its author that I could slap her... could she possibly be more condescending, boring, and invasive to all the communities she dips into and insta-judges? I enjoyed the sorority chapter because at least in that one she questioned herself and whether what she was doing was ethical. But... only for a minute. She never seems to have any fun... or any respect for other people. Plus, nary an insight. It's all magazine-article fluff from the fluffiest of magazines.
And as for the marriage chapter & feeling all superior and pulling her lame classism on 20 year olds from the amazing height of her 27 year-old-wisdom ... ! fuck! annoying! Oh wait, I forgot she lives in NEW YORK... making her into Superiorgirl... who is able to tell when other people's relationships are thoughtless...
And who the hell grows up in San Francisco in the 90s and then goes to burning man and gets freaked out and scared b/c there's naked people running around? hello! big surprise! And the un-charming boast that she's gone as a woman alone to countries that are not recommended for women alone to travel in, but even so, burning man still scares her. OoooOOOOoooo... and then she has a shitty time and doesn't see anything interesting or talk to anyone interesting... what a surprise... b/c people like that take their own hell with them. I love making fun of Burning Man hippies too, for god's sake! But she does it in a super annoying way... with no capacity for enthusiasm and ... infinite ironic posing.
Pretty annoying when she decides that all the gang girls exaggerate & lie, because of how their survival depends on "their storytelling" or something... and so she checks with the police and parole officers for "the truth" without it occurring to her to question why she assumes the police will know, or tell, the truth...
What a dumbass.... going all old-school anthropologist on totally arbitrary groups of people.
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