Posted on 08/13/2010 1:24:48 PM PDT by YoungHickey
Sitting through Eat Pray Love, the movie in three parts based on the best-selling book in three verbs, the same three words kept coming to mind: white-girl problems.
Earlier that day, Twitter suggested I follow an entire feed, @whitegrlproblem, dedicated most hilariously to the pretend crisis of #whitegirlproblems. Each new tweet is a punch line delivered to more than 23,000 followers about the pitfalls of being young, bored and of means: Sort of like a Gossip Girl-inspired twist on @shitmydadsays, an avatar that closely resembles what I imagine Jane Eyre to have looked like complains, I miss me. #whitegirlproblems, This European sizing is going to give me an anxiety attack. #whitegirlproblems, and Would you consider me self-centered? #whitegirlproblems.
White-girl problems, the feed suggests, are poles apart from the rest of our problems because, really, they aren't problems at all. In Eat Pray Love, Julia Roberts plays Liz Gilbert, the real-life author of the memoir of the same name that tracks her journey from unhappily married life in New York to finding God to his/her greatest gift: love. Liz's problems in the movie are as follows: a husband who loves her too much in suburbia; clinging too much to a hot, unemployed actor in Manhattan; eating too much pasta in Italy; controlling too much of her mind in India; and having too much sex in Bali.
(Excerpt) Read more at theroot.com ...
Mind you, this is the same woman that accused Maureen Dowd of being racist because she tried to set her up with a "hot" guy, who happened to be black. Yuck, something wrong when I'm defending Maureen Dowd.
She is the corn in the poo of our cultural decline, or at least one little tiny bit of corn.
That’s a huge chunk of American culture.
Just my two cents.
“Maureen Dowd”
No offense, but I could care less about this thread. However, since you mentioned MD, I’m just here for the pictures! :)
I don't know ANY "white girls" with more than one of these problems.
My husband thinks Julia Roberts is ugly and says so whenever we sit through one her movie previews. I love him sooooooooo much!
I'm with you, man. I don't generally go out of my way to read anything from The Root, and especially not about Julia Roberts movies, but the headline caught my eye.
I just don't understand why this website exists. For example, what is a "black perspective"? If I wrote things from a "white perspective" that would be racist. Who thinks that way? I just don't get it. It shouldn't be a "black" or "white" perspective. It should be an individual's perspective. I don't understand what difference race makes.
When I do things, I don't preface everything I do with the word white. And if I did I can only imagine what peoples' reaction would be.
She is the corn in the poo of our cultural decline
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Hahaha haaaaaaaaaa
Funny.
I swear, if I never see Julia Roberts’ teeth again, it will be too soon.
Ever just look at someone and they instantly make you angry? Like it flips a switch or something? That's what she does to me. And +1 for her being fugly.
Oh for goodness sakes! These people really do love to talk about themselves, don't they.
She is unattractive with her loo large mouth and teeth, and her nasally voice.
While not necessarily ugly, I have never understood what is remotely attractive about her.
Lost me right there.
Twitter is for twits.
Why doesn’t that person just start her own #blackgirlproblems hash tag and post away?
I'd rather eat your fried stomach than have to pay 15 bucks and then sit through this movie.
Hmm...if one of her problems in the movie is a husband who loves her too much, they’ve changed the book significantly...
Because it’s not about being able to do something,
it’s about being able to prevent someone ELSE from doing something.
Get it now?
Why do you and batman11 care so deeply that you could care less?
Or did you mean that you could NOT care less?
Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine: If you care more than you want to or should, then you could care less.
If you don’t give a rat’s patootie about something, then you could NOT care less.
Words mean things, and poor grammar diminishes us all.
BTW, count me in with the “What is so attractive about Julia Roberts?” crowd.
From what I’ve read of the book and the movie, the whole schtick of this movie is just young unfufilled female angst at being young unfulfilled and female.
It’s total mental masturbation, with little plot and no message.
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