tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1840427995311765519..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Elizabeth Wurtzel: Poster Patient for ProzacStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-80895009925110764882013-01-13T11:38:59.973-08:002013-01-13T11:38:59.973-08:00Exactly... some of what she say is completely absu...Exactly... some of what she say is completely absurd, and yet, credit where credit is due-- she writes very well.<br /><br />I have been surprised to see that many of those who might otherwise agree with her are attacking her writing. Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-75815499271332814562013-01-13T11:32:16.018-08:002013-01-13T11:32:16.018-08:00While it is absurd to call a wife who doesn't ...While it is absurd to call a wife who doesn't work a prostitute, based on the selections you posted Wurtzel seems to be a very good writer. I'd heard of Prozac Nation but I've never read her before.Recruiting Animalhttp://recruitinganimal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-33092422633301594672013-01-08T16:00:52.836-08:002013-01-08T16:00:52.836-08:00I miss the days when you could openly laugh at los...I miss the days when you could openly laugh at losers instead of sitting through them trying to sell you their misery for profit.rogue wolfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-82308760700980773512013-01-08T12:00:07.001-08:002013-01-08T12:00:07.001-08:00I don't know the story about her bankruptcy fi...I don't know the story about her bankruptcy filing, but I would be curious to know whether it had an effect on her debt situation.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-67170413618185550412013-01-08T11:58:18.537-08:002013-01-08T11:58:18.537-08:00On the other hand, she now has no money, and appar...On the other hand, she now has no money, and apparently no new marketable skill...JPL17noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-59231996878695690592013-01-08T11:27:18.725-08:002013-01-08T11:27:18.725-08:00"She graduated from Yale Law School, and mana..."She graduated from Yale Law School, and managed eventually to pass the bar. But, she spent all of her savings on this lark, only to discover that the profession did not suit her."<br /><br />Spending all your *savings* on law school is actually a relatively positive outcome in Law World these days.<br /><br />And I'm not being sarcastic.<br /><br />What is occurring right now is that law students are coming out with six figures of debt into a legal market than can only support half of them.<br /><br />So, she managed to avoid the six figures of debt.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-80302446062879935412013-01-08T10:30:36.136-08:002013-01-08T10:30:36.136-08:00Great post, so full of insights I'll have to r...Great post, so full of insights I'll have to read it again at a less hurried time of day. Although I have never liked Wurtzel, and loathe her brand of feminism even more than I loathe nearly all the other brands, this story actually causes me to feel sympathy for her. Anyone who sincerely writes, <br />"[H]appiness is the untruths we tell each other and ourselves or it would be unbearable," deserves pity. Wurtzel may deserve it even more so, since her sad philosophy seems to be just a prop for the ideology that's making her miserable. That is, she seems to be telling herself, "Since no one's 'happiness' is true, my true UNhappiness leaves me no sadder than anyone else, and makes me more worthy than others, because my ideology is pure." <br /><br />Unfortunately, I recognize this same constellation of attitudes and behaviors -- right down to the memoir-writing impulse -- in several unattached, unhappy female friends / acquaintances of mine. Perhaps Wurtzel Syndrome is, well, a syndrome.<br /><br />If so, perhaps it should be called the "Van Beuren Syndrome," after a classic Van Beuren Studios children’s cartoon from the early 1930s. In it, a group of unhappy elves do battle with a group of happy elves, and the unhappy elves keep repeating, “I don’t want to be happy, I want to be sad….” I've long felt this cartoon captures an essential truth about human nature...(see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clx-aAxKiQM)JPL17noreply@blogger.com