hey genius!

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Yeah, everyone gets to a point in their lives where they’re tired of putting up with at least some of the shittier aspects urban life. Some people incorporate that frustration into their personalities, some rationalize it against the pros of city living, and some romanticize it. Some just don’t deal with it and GTFO. The thing that’s so annoying about Fashie Blogger up there is that she sells herself as this urban ideal. She coopts the city for her benefit and she doesn’t even understand it. Even if she leaves, the stupidity and smallmindedness displayed above will remain tenfold in the form of little LovePuppy clones.

There’s so much more to most American cities–especially New York–than OMG clothes and brunch and a likeminded group of creative layabouts. And it’s not gonna bow down to some white-bread twat in Park Slope. Crawl out of your fucking lovenest and rent a workspace in a writers’ community if you can’t get shit done at home. That IS why writers like living in cities, right? Or am I confusing bloggers with actual artists?

PS Lock your front wheel, cuntnugget. Everyone knows that shit’s the easiest thing to steal off a bike.

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No, we’re saying that yelling out the window at the underprivileged, ‘eeeewing’ at the homeless panhandling near an outdoor seating area and passing judgement on people on food stamps who don’t stick to your approved ‘on food stamps’ diet of beans, rice, and bodega apples and bananas but dare to buy chocolate and ice cream is a symptom of your ‘white entitlement’.

See, an opinion is ‘It really makes me wonder where my tax money is going when I see people on food stamps seem to only buy chocolate – there should be some sort of regulation.’

Acting like an entitled white ass involves calling the people on food stamps obnoxious, loud, and obese, assuming they buy only chocolate, candy and beer with their government assistance, and almost sort of implying that they’re probably alcoholics, what with their six 40′s and all at 7am.

Do you see, Quirk? Do you see how the above example is something that would probably lead to a slightly better reception, and how the example below might anger some people? How a few negative adjectives (I mean, you guys are writers, right?) makes an opinion look like a sand-in-vagina classist rant against the almost-homeless?

Come on, now. Surely you aren’t that dense.

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Her editor and publishing house are going to rue the day they took on this claptrap. She cannot write nor can she spell.

A cursory look at her illustrations for said book and her own much photographed outfit shots show that Jessica is drawing Jessica! Jessica’s clothes! Jessica’s style! Jessica’s body type! It’s masturbation avec a thousand colored pens. Good luck selling that to the masses, Love Puppy and Random House.

I’ve been in book publishing long enough to know this will be a short print run that ends up in the remainders bins within 3 months.

DON’T do a publicity tour, dearie. Portland, OR will eat you for breakfast and San Francisco will leave you in tears!

You are out of touch beyond measure.

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"Wow I’ve been reading GOMI/RBNS for a long while and never have I felt compelled to comment before. People like this exist?
“I live near a women’s shelter full of obnoxious, loud, obese women who spend all of their EBT cards on chocolate bars and candy.”
I just can’t even wrap my mind around how someone could process such a vile and mean spirited thought and THEN have the nerve to type it out and click publish. I am quite impressed with all of the articulate and compassionate comments though. This moron should be thanking you all for the valuable education and thoughtfulness put into the replies.
Oh and I had never even heard of her before, but will be sure to direct everyone I know to this post. Jessica Schroeder, FUCK YOU."

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I don’t really get her style either – but to be fair, personal style is an individual thing. I don’t have anything truly snarky to say about her whatiwore site other than I personally find it not my thing, it is what it is and hey good for her on making a living out of something she likes.

This post isn’t about being jealous that Jessica is so awesome and got a book deal and is making money on sponsors. It’s about THAT. UP THERE. See what she said? I’m far from being the nicest person in the world and even I wouldn’t post something like that.

Think about it: she typed this out, had time to read it, contemplate it, and saw nothing wrong with hitting ‘publish’, sharing it with the whole world. This isn’t some ‘oh man I got drunk and went on tumblr and said totally awful things oh man I feel terrible’ thing. This is what was actually going on in her stone cold sober and presumably rational head, and she felt this sentiment was acceptable enough to post to the internet. THAT is what leaves me shaking my head.

I wish her luck with her whatiwore ventures, but she might be better served next time to swivel her chair and share these feelings with Adam, rather than her fans.

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"Fuck, I think she’s doing things wrong in the grand scheme of things. I think having a blog dedicated to particularly uninteresting pictures of yourself and your particularly uninteresting tastes is bad for the world (and I mean objectively uninteresting — she is purposely not making interesting style choices or putting enough thought into what she does that it could be considered artistic or innovative or even just, you know, thoughtful). I believe that. And I believe that the fact that she has taken that on as a “career” is directly related to the selfishness and indulgence of the ugly statements above."

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Um…wasn’t Lenin an active and vocal critic of the government?

Seriously though, this sums up their entire philosophy: pay no attention to any critique, you are perfect the way you are.

Just keep up your fabulous tipping and jumping around in “thrifted” dresses-worn-as-skirts, baby. Everyone else is either an anonymous coward or just jealous, haters gonna hate, that negativity will come back on them etc etc etc.

Whatever keeps your great self-love intact, assholes.

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I’ve read RBNS/GOMI for a long time. I’ve never commented until now. I spend the bulk of my time on the internet (easy job) and visit What I Wore daily.

Never again.

Note to market reseachers/bookers/googlers

If I see “Adam Quirkc” “Jessica Schroeder” from “What I Wore” on TV (doubtful) or websites, I’ll stop watching, stop visiting and question those who promote it.

I have two blog novice friends who I reccomended “What I Wore” to, I just sent them this link.

I don’t have have a tumblr account but somewho, I think I just affect positive change.

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I hate this crowd so fucking much for exactly this sentiment. Nothing is ever their fault! Haters gonna hate! You’re just jealous!

Newsflash: If more than 100 comments on a website are critiquing your awful fucking behavior, perhaps it’s time to stop whining about the haters and actually engage in a little self-reflection.

And if you can’t handle criticism, DON’T RUN A PUBLIC BLOG. It’s really that fucking simple.

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"Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic."