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…

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

Let’s see, also overrated:

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

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

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

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.

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