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Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, by Gerd Gigerenzer

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Old Washed Up Skanks Justifying Their Current STDs

I gotta be honest, I absolutely hated "Let's Spend the Night Together" by Pamela Des Barres. I watch Rock of Love, so I read this to get an idea of what groupies are really like. To summarize the book: 376 pages of self-righteous, self-centered, poor writing about the (embellished) sexual conquests of groupies in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Here is why it sucked:
1. I hated her diction.
a. Using "big girl" words like "sequestered" and "raucous" multiple times on the same page does not make you sound intelligent
b. If you are going to use the "big girl" words, make sure you know what they mean
2. I hated her Cosmopolitan-ish phrases
a. Alliteration in moderation, please
b. I am going to punch the next person who uses the phrase "devil-may-care" or some other cliche because they cannot come up with anything original to use descriptively
3. And most importantly, I hated the way she rationalized the groupie mentality (let me say here that I am not judging these groupies on what they did, but rather on how they make up bullshit reasons after its over).
a. You were NOT making some sort of freedom statement, y0u were having sex to build your self esteem (in most cases)
b. You did NOT pave the way for the women's movement (A direct quote from the book: "We paved the way for a lot of freedom that women take for granted and don't appreciate." Are you f-ing kidding me? You were having unprotected sex with a bunch of nasty guys who used you. Yeah, real top notch women's lib efforts there).

A final statement: Pamela Des Barres, you are a terrible writer and you are not educating anyone. You sound like one of those sad old men who sits in bars talking about his high school glory days.

3 comments:

  1. Sad old man sitting in a bar talking about high school glory days - hey, come on, it might be all we've got. Wait a minute, where was I in high school? did I go to high school? what bar is this? and what was I just doing? Al, Al, are you there?

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  2. Ah yes. Soon, Al will be coming to visit more often, and eventually he'll be the only visitor... It's alright, at least we know he's coming. For both of us, presumably.

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  3. Haha....I only liked the rock star parts.

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