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9 Comments | posted May 12th, 2009 at 03:40 pm by Courtney E. Martin

Friend of Croosh Manoosh and all around awesome dude, Andrew Marantz, has a new blog called Overrated List. Essentially, he played off of a notorious Christopher Hitchens quote from The New Yorker (in which he named champagne, picnics, lobster, and wait for it…wait for it…anal sex as the four most overrated things), to invite all of his diverse friends to make their own lists. Mine is up now:

1. Revenge
2. Marriage
3. “Sex and the City”
4. Rationality

What’s yours?

I also like the idea of an underrated list, so feel free to add those in comments as well. Oh, and if you want to get yours on the Overrated List blog, email Andrew at overratedlist@gmail.com.

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There are currently 9 responses

  1. Overs

    1. Titanic (the movie)
    2. Oprah
    3. Livin’ in any Big City (unless you are single and under 30yrs old)
    4. Christopher Hitchens

    Unders
    1. Silence
    2. Children
    3. Simplicity
    4. Reading

    May 12th, 2009 | 4:55 pm
  2. This is actually kind of brilliant!

    Overrated:
    1. Conventional wisdom
    2. Approval
    3. Oprah
    4. Homeownership

    Underrated:
    1. Solitude
    2. Voting
    3. Fast food
    4. Gossip (that’s right, I said it)

    Courtney, you inspired to write about my choices at writervixen.com. ;)

    May 13th, 2009 | 2:26 am
  3. Vu

    Courtney said Anal Sex again :)

    May 13th, 2009 | 3:36 pm
  4. I like this idea!

    Overrated:
    1. Linear time
    2. Perfection
    3. New York City (catch me on a different day, and it might go in the other category)
    4. Movies/TV shows/books focused only on white men

    Underrated:
    1. The power of female sexuality
    2. Authentic self-reflection and inner work
    3. Solitude – totally agree with Deborah on this one
    4. Genuine thank you notes

    May 13th, 2009 | 3:43 pm
  5. At first blush…

    1. Niceness
    2. Straightened hair
    3. Assessment of one’s own intelligence
    4. Twitter

    May 15th, 2009 | 1:01 pm
  6. Ethan, these are awesome! Hope you sent them to Andrew. ;)

    May 17th, 2009 | 2:28 am
  7. Jenna

    I agree with Jen: New York City, tho’ wonderful, is overrated. Recently married, in a demographic where getting married is so-1880’s and retrograde, I find, to my happy feminist surprise that, in my experience, marriage is quite underrated.

    Let’s see, also overrated:

    1.) the internet
    2.) low-fat and sugar-free foods
    3.) opinion columnists, all of them
    4.) carpet

    May 19th, 2009 | 12:59 pm
  8. Nicole

    I’m so over all of these…

    1.PINKBERRY
    2.Kindles
    3.sob stories
    4.fake eyelashes

    May 28th, 2009 | 2:14 am
  9. Overrated :: Underrated …

    Best of Writer Vixen: Originally Posted May 2009 Courtney Martin, over at Crucial Minutiae, put me onto a terrific new blog called Overrated List. The List was inspired by a typically surly and provocative Christopher Hitchens quote in The New Yorker a…

    July 10th, 2009 | 10:18 am

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