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.
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LOL
She was incredibly beautiful when she was young but has not aged well. Don’t know why exactly. Something about her features being large, maybe.
Anyway, she is brain dead but I like her okay cause she doesn’t get in our face about it too much.
You must go to a way classier Wal-Mart than I do.
Pretty funny!
Well, she did tell us where to find the definition of Republican in the dictionary..right between reptile and repulsive.
I'd rather watch a football game and then go bowling, have some fried catfish and hushpuppies, then spend the evening with the family than do either.
I mean, if we're getting our druthers here.
Thanks for the summary. My wife was hinting that she wanted me to take her to this movie but I think I'll paint the garage, shampoo the rugs, give the dog a bath, poke sharp sticks in my eyes, even jump out of a plane without a parachute if necessary. Anything but see this movie. I'll have to repeat the same maneuvers I had to take to avoid seeing "Sex In The City."
Why do women insist on men going with them to emasculating crap like this? If it's not a chick flick, it's an art museum, a ballet or a shopping trip.
I mean, it's not like I insist that the wife go with me to a hockey game, or a fishing trip or a Three Stooges marathon.
On the subject of movies, my wife had me take her to see "Inception" a couple weeks ago. OK, it wasn't a chick flick, but what the heck was that all about? Made no sense to me whatsoever.
All these web sites exist so people can vent their inner bigot under the guise of humor. You can make fun of jewish princesses, rednecks, black baby names, mexican illegals, etc. and not get into jeopardy.
Now that’s what I’m talk’in about!
Thanks!
Thanks Mr. Perfect. I am sure that you never, ever make a mistake. Have a nice weekend.
No, I don’t think so, truthfully. I am a man who knows what appeals to me and she simply does not.
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