[ SECRET POST #3006 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3006 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

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12. http://i.imgur.com/VbZGnDk.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Reading the description of the book, it sounds like it's supposed to be funny because it's making fun of people who consider those problems, not that you're supposed to laugh because you feel her "pain."

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. The secret made me curious so went to Amazon and skimmed the first few pages and it sounds pretty smug and self-congratulatory to me. The author has some sense of self awareness about how awful she is/was, but she still thinks it was more amusing than awful. Not sure I agree, since she opens up with a story about how she, a rich lady having cocktails with her friends, stole a bag from a homeless guy.

[(Anonymous)]

ew what the fuck, i seriously hope that story is made up

D:

[(Anonymous)]

I thought this till I found out it purports to be autobiographical rather than fictional.

A fictional character written by an author with an awareness of how horribly selfish and shallow they are could have been funny, possibly even endearing... Going by the reviews, this author fully believes in the "funny and endearing" bit - as applied to herself, not a fictional character.

[(Anonymous)]

I was working as a CSR once, and a friend bought me a copy of the Timewaster Letters
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Timewaster-Letters-Robin-Cooper/dp/1843171694

I understand where she was coming from, and from the outside, why she thought it would be a funny thong for me to enjoy. Having to deal with the shit every day for real did not make me find it funny. More like want to go buy purple stretchy pants to deal with the rage it kindled within me.

Sometimes, when things are too close, then it doesn't matter how funny it is intended (even if you are meant to laugh at the character's pettyness), it is just too raw a nerve. I sympathise anon, I really do.

[(Anonymous)]

Image: cover of Jen Lancaster’s Bitter is the New Black

Text: A friend gave me this book to cheer me up because she thinks it’s funny.

IT’S TERRIBLE

The author is the worst example of an entitled rich white lady who expects you to feel sorry for her because she has to stop buying thousand dollar purses. She’s so tone deaf and self absorbed I feel a little queasy just reading this. Meanwhile, I’m struggling to live from paycheck to paycheck and hoping my car doesn’t break down because I can’t afford to fix it AND buy food. This is a book only a white Republical soccer mom would love and giving it to me feels like a slap in the face.

S!B I’m obviously judgy as hell and I should’ve known better since the title pretty much tells you it’s written by a raging narcicist.

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[(Anonymous)]

lmao this reminds me of that one time my friend said: "hey you should totally read this book, it's amazing!"

the book was the alchemist by paulo cuelho, and it was the most pretentious, condescending, awful New Age BS i've ever read. i think it's the book i hate most of all.

my friend has since gone on to read 'eat pray love' and '50 shades', so i think we have very different taste in books.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, I seriously considered unfriending people on FB who insisted I need to read the Eat, Pray, Love book. Enough already, you guys, I can tell from the title and description alone it's pretentious garbage.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I wouldn't say "republican" since there are a lot of democrats I've met who'd be like the author, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

Republicans haven't fully cornered the market on sneering at the less fortunate, but they kind of dominate it in politics, so...

[(Anonymous)]

Not really? The state I live in, at least, the Dems do a pretty good job of it - so much so there have been times people have actively voted for the Republicans *because* the Dem candidate was just so..."Nope" in a lot of ways [including that one.]

[(Anonymous)]

I've had the same experience. People around here don't expect the Republicans to really help them, but the Dems are so condescending and out of touch of late, it's really no contest. The party and its most vocal cheerleaders are heavily privileged, but since it's economic privilege they won't acknowledge it even exists. Any talk of class or economic issues gets shut down or ignored. The result is that they make the Republicans look like populist friends of the working guy/gal and when that happens, you know there's a real problem with the left.

[(Anonymous)]

I can relate. I haven't read the book, but just the cover makes me mad. I'm so sick of the rich & upper-middle-class tales of what they consider woe and their complete ignorance of what constitutes a real problem.

I had the same reaction when someone sent me a link to a story advocating for putting a woman on the $20 bill. She told me how important this is for women. Yeah, right. You know what would help women more than putting a woman on the $20 bill? Raising the minimum wage to $20/hr. Or even $15. Mandating paid sick leave and paid vacation time. Damn near anything else. Like a lot of women, I'm underemployed and in debt, but hey, not having any women on our currency is a much bigger problem for us gals and our country than some silly idea like a living wage or student debt relief.

Seriously, upper class women are not going to shut the hell up about these non-problems and non-issues, so I guess what's going to have to happen is that us gals at the bottom are going to have to start speaking up. Maybe write our own books and start pushing our issues. There's more of us than there are of them. So hang in there, OP. You're not alone. There's a lot of us who're struggling, so I wish you the best of luck and hope you find some much more inspiring reading material.

[(Anonymous)]

Plus fucking one.