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.
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
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.
Courtney said Anal Sex again
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
At first blush…
1. Niceness
2. Straightened hair
3. Assessment of one’s own intelligence
4. Twitter
Ethan, these are awesome! Hope you sent them to Andrew.
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
I’m so over all of these…
1.PINKBERRY
2.Kindles
3.sob stories
4.fake eyelashes
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…