I almost got on the Stephanie Klein gravy train - but I just couldn't - Ria took my ticket. I am glad she did.
Here is a woman with no concept being praised for a fantastical life that she can twist to seem so hard.
(insert eye roll)
Stephanie Klien IS NOT a REAL NYC woman.
A NYC woman is not meeting coffee with friends midday, and seeing matinees. A NYC woman winces when she ALONE has to hand over the $2500.00 ransom check for the closet she dwells in. A NYC WOMAN goes to the corner bodega to get a 6-pack because spending that much money on wine is not conceivable in this lifetime.
A NYC woman has REAL HARDSHIP over REAL BREAKUPS. Not the imagined "if I were by myself" scrawlings of a Dominatrix with a boytoy.
I can't stomach her, for the fact that she is the face the world assumes to be me. When people outside of NY think of US real women who live in NYC - with a REAL PERSON's life, responsibility - trials and tribulations - they think we are all Free-lance PAM slicked hussies who have nothing better to do then dwell on our OH-SO SCREWED UP CHILDHOOD AT FAT CAMP.
Here she is with a silver spoon screaming at the top of her lungs because she has no Lennox China.
GET OVER IT.
There were fat people who NEVER MADE IT TO FAT CAMP. People who are TOO OLD FOR IT! So here comes this skinny chic wanting to tell her tale of woe. Minding her business on sidewalk cafes as to WHY PEOPLE WORK, and why she can walk around like a monk sworn to unemployment because she is so marketable people pay for her to live that way.
I, THANK GOD for things like tales of two sisters. Maybe the pain of that hardship will be something that stupid ass can write 1st hand about.
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Yes, Irene... her whole world is made so that she is marketable. Whatever hardship she has had, she has made for herself, so it's tough to feel sorry for her or to think she is a hero. But she is the master of weaving tales so as to paint herself that way.
YOU are the hero. You live your life each day despite conditions and setbacks that would destroy someone without your strength of character. Remember this. And keep doing it. You are an inspiration.
Namaste.
~HDJ
Bravo, well at least one Queens chic can see through another. Your post is "on the money" I would double down if I were you. By the way, Stephanie Klein is from Jamaica.....Jamaica Estates. See also: The New Chic Slit: The Case Against Cover Artists and The Case Against Stephanie Klein
Yes, Jamaica Estates is where the likes of Mario Cuomo live.
Yes, Jamaica Estates is where the likes of Mario Cuomo live.
Always interesting to watch these little blogger-gal catfights! Check my posts HERE, HERE and HERE!!!
Irene I love you BUT in my humble opinion blogging in and of itself is a bit dramatic. I mean your writing an open letter day after day. At some point the line between you "getting a load off your chest" and entertainment get blurred. Maybe Stephanie isn't your definition of what a "New York Woman" is but she's SOMEONES definition. Isn't that what being a "New York Woman" is about? Not having to fit someones mold, or live your life under a big fat label? Your free to do and be whatever you want. Stephanie provides entertainment for the masses...most of us understand that.
xo,
Ria
Ms. Klein has mastered the art of selling pseudo existential angst. She offers such profound lessons for women who read her. Husband cheats? Pregnant? Just get an abortion and dump him! She is nobody's hero nor does she represent the typical NYC woman. So it does not surprise me that hometown girls do not see her as any "Stephie from the block." She rather represents a distorted and outdated version of a character on a long running sitcom. She got her book and movie deals on the big island of Manhattan, but nobody here on the right side of the bell curve sees this cliche as representative of any cultural movement beyond that of self absorbed JAPPY twits, which is not so much a movement as it as lingering stain on urban life that we all wish would just go away but run into far too often blogging from their laptops at Barnes and Noble, with a Mocha Crappacino Latte with skim milk. See also Aex Blagg's timeless classic: Profiles in Douchebagete-ery
You are on the money of all of us who can see right through this annoyo whiner Stephanie. On the other hand, isn't it amazing that Chris London swears he does not stalk Stephanie Klein, yet he can be found on EVERY SINGLE BLOG ever written about her? EVERY SINGLE ONE. Me thinks he spends day and night googling her. Chris, she dumped you. Move on.
here we go again!!!! LOL. FYI: (i) I knew of this blog before this post and in fact commented on Irene's blog a while ago.(ii)Stephanie Klein did NOT dump anyone, whether it be me or anyone else, (iii) we RUN from her, not to her which is the opposite of stalking--got it? capische? Kind of sad coming from a spoiled princess who ripped a child out of her tummy to get even with her ex husband for upgrading, moving on and disappearing on her. See also Blogger Girls Gone Wild II Perhaps Dave Lucas of capital region people is also stalking her? ha ha ha Get over it. "NOBODY" stalks Stephanie Klein.
OK... this is not about Chris London or anybody stalking anybody. It's about the content of the blog in question, as "stalkinagain" very accurately noted.
Irene makes many excellent points in very plain terms. Please do not dilute the real message with this stalker bickering.... thanks.
Namaste.
~HDJ
HDJ, it is quite alright. Irene's critique of the Greek Tragedy blog is especially persuasive since as you state Irene makes her case in very plain, Hemingway'esque terms, and the critique is coming NOT from "an angry old man" but rather from a "real" woman with real challenges in her life, who was actually a reader of The Greek Tragedy blog, and who despite the very real drama in her life, somehow manages a smile, a laugh and is able to poke fun at herself and the crazy world around her as she forges on. These are values in women that we should be championing.
Don't you guys ever get bored of this topic?
"real" "Hemingway -esque" - man oh man, could you be any more insulting? Is she - well spoken - too? These thinly veiled racially charged euphemisms need to be halted.
Not everybody writes like George Plimpton.
I think Chris London sees Stephanie Klein in his corn flakes every morning...LOL. What Chris needs is to find a job and try to hold on to it as long as he holds this grudge with S.K. He's the only loser I know that after 20 years of being a lawyer he still has no job. Mr.(Photos of me)London once was a long admirer of this Stephanie and employed her on his "fill his pockets" mission.He posted a profile of her bragging of her writing skills and provided links to her blogsite.She left his shady organization and she is being stalked and bombarded on every blog with his now negative critique.Irene you have posted your opinion and moved on with your thoughts and ideas unlike others who have made a career of tracking negative critique and posting it on their website to support their personal opinion.Everyone has a right to dislike someones writing artistry but need to shrug it off and let go of this obsession.WHO CARES ABOUT SOMEONES BOOK DEAL Or if their truely worthy of one.IF YOU DISLIKE HER WRITING DON'T BUY HER BOOK.It's time to move on.
Chris London most definately has the same personality as "Peter Braunstein".A real "LOSER" and a "PSYCHOTIC STALKER".
Mr.London is a PSYCHOSEXUAL STALKER and a NARCISISTIC JACKOFF posing as a socialite instead of a fireman.Hopefully he too will get the urge to kill himself.One can only wish he will be more successfull at doing so.
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