PICTURE OF NOT LOVEPUPPY HERE (sorry I don’t care enough to google another one)
The girl formerly known as “Midwest Jess”, and then as What I Wore’s Jessica Schroeder, wannabe model/fashion designer/fatty hater Jessica Quirk, lives in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn. Surrounded by squalor in her depressed ghetto neighborhood in the middle of crack houses and an underground baby selling ring, poor Jess has to endure endless assaults to her delicate midwest senses. Take this entry for example:
I just got home from brunch to see the front tire was stolen off my bike, cutting the breaks in the process.
I hate Park Slope. It’s not just that my tire was yanked, but it’s that 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’ve gone down for my daily coffee many a morning and seen women buying 6 40s, ice cream and bread. I don’t give a shit what people eat, but those EBT cards? That’s a modern way to say food stamps. And those food stamps come from tax dollars, so WHY THE HELL are you buying junk food?
I also live by a bus stop. This is where a lot of the assinine bull shit takes place. A month ago, a man and a women were screaming at each other and cursing (F-word). Adam opened the window and said “This is a family neighborhood, could you take it somewhere else?” The response? “WE”RE WAITING FOR THE F&*^ing BUS! YOU GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!” Really? REALLY? You want me to go somewhere other than my living room while you shout and call each other Effing liars?
New York is grinding me down to a fine dust. It might not be too blow before the blow the hell out of here.
Yeah assholes! This is a family neighborhood! Take your unseemly white trash behavior somewhere else! Jessica didn’t move all the way from Indiana to the Big City, take up the Secret, get a tumblr and successfully snag the husband she was searching for just so you fat welfare trash could offend her by buying beer and yelling at the bus stop.
Don’t you know who she is? She is the What I Wore girl! She is friends with David Karp! RESPECT!
EDIT: Jessica just updated her tumblr post with the following:
*Re: Fact checking. No, I don’t believe EBT cards will purchase alcohol. I’m just trying to paint a picture of the kind of purchases I see made in my local bodega.
WHEW. Here I thought we were talking about how the post in its overall tone was classist and bitchy, I had no idea we were all in a tizzy about that one fact. Carry on then!
EDIT EDIT: And now she has removed all the offensive text, and replaced it with this:
Apologies to anyone who was upset or offended about the previous post in this spot. I’m upset at myself for posting it too.
So…does this mean I can buy some Steel Reserve and twinkies at the store with my ebt tomorrow? Cuz that’s how us poor fatties start our day in Brooklyn.
one time she tweeted about the horrors of encountering street people while dining al fresco. she has since deleted the tweet but someone had emailed it to me (bc i cant look @ her asinine twitter) –
whatiwore: “If you are going to beg, its not really fair or appropriate to do it while people are trying to eat. Thank you.”
pretttttty amazing.
She seems really nice and hardworking until you start paying attention. Then the entitled snotty princess really shines through.
And get fucking real, she can’t leave nyc. Where does she think she can go and continue to do her fashion schtick as a real career? Fort Wayne? Her only real option is to move to what, Paris or something if she plans on making this her lifelong pursuit.
lol, Paris would chew her up and spit her out in 2.5 seconds.
I DESPISE Jessica Schroeder, she is an emotional retard and an entitled spoiled brat who doesn’t even have the decency to be self-aware about it.
You’re probably just jealous.
Totally agree – well said!!! And if anyone is in doubt, please read through her blog “in pursuit of…”. Just shocking!!! (I seriously think that she needs professional/medical help)
Wow. Mary, I’d never seen that blog o’crazy. It is truly nuts.
Time spent chewing gum?
The idea that she would merge WIW with some big fashion magazine?
Serious. Insanity. Abounds.
i spent waaaaaay too much time there. Total train wreck. Could not look away.
shudder.
And everyone kept telling me “She’s so nice! She doesn’t deserve to be on GOMI! You’re just jealous!”
Ok then!
I “followed” (for entertainment) her midwest Jess tumblr before she became all famous. She is definitely CRAZY!
It doesn’t surprise me at all that she would say these things. Go back into her blog archives to 2008 or so, if they’re there. I remember there being many “gems.”
UGH, this girl. I see her entitled posts reblogged occasionally on tumblr and they make my blood boil. She is a waste of space.
This girl is vile. Her blog should be called Bad Midwestern Hick Outfits. Fuck you bitch, welcome to the inner city, if ice-cream gets you through the day whilst you’re living in a shelter with no job so what. Your blog and sensiblilty offends me more. You, Jessica Schroeder are the kind of person that’s killed New York, please leave. And if you knew anything about fashion, you would know that having an EBT card is major 2010 trend.
Ha! ESPECIALLY in Brooklyn.
I am seething but I don’t even want to begin. When I lived in NYC, I worked as a clinical social worker. I did work with the shelter she speaks of, a shelter’s whose location is TOP SECRET for obvious reasons (keep blabbing, Jess. So nice of you!). That shelter does amazing work and has spent years making partnerships with the upper middle class neighborhood dwellers. Since the shelter, itself, has extremely strict rules re: alcohol and regular testing/observation, her attribution of alcohol and shelter is straight up wrong. We are talking about a luxury shelter, as far as shelter go (I’ve been to them ALL…for the most part).
And only bigoted assholes go around looking at what people purchase with EBT cards. You cannot buy alcohol with an EBT card…does she even know that?
and you know why a lot of the “shelter” women are obese? ALL are victims of physical and/or sexual abuse (mostly BOTH). It’s very common for women to self treat with food and also create a sort of protection with fat/weight from the outside world.
She really lacks empathy. What a fucking snot.
Yes on this.
Amen. And if someone comes out of a relationship where she’s been terrorized why the fuck shouldn’t she be able to buy a fucking candy bar. Seriously infuriating.
Haha. Thanks for the love. That photo is NOT me ;)
Google images. Shows how much I care.
LMAO. I <3 you, PP.
I don’t know how these people get anything done, with the Google Alert checking. Hey Jess, please check out my blog called “Love EBT” It contains photos of the most stylish people I’ve found at food pantries.”Haha”
“BP as a corporation is evil. Or whatever.” Riveting!
Brooklyn can get you down. When all you want to do is live in peace, and drunk people are screaming at you for no apparent reason, and some young criminal steals your shit, it makes it hard to grin and bear it. Bitching about it on Tumblr is a better way to vent than just keeping it bottled up and going off on the next homeless drunk who pisses on your doorstep.
But you professional fucktards are obviously above complaining or venting.
As for the shelter women, if you were to give a friend who’s down on her luck a hundred dollars for groceries, and she went out and bought $5 gourmet chocolate bars and candy, then came back next week and asked for another hundred, would you give it to her? Do you understand how taxes work? It’s a broken system for many reasons, mostly because of education. Is it bigoted or “entitled” to point that out?
I have empathy for many of the women there, and I do know that they are all likely victims of abuse. But there are some very bad seeds in that shelter. Women who curse and fight and get drunk on a daily basis, all literally right in front of toddlers and kids playing in front of their homes. These are bad people, and yes bad people do exist. Some are born that way, but most are molded.
All of it is enough to temporarily blind you from the larger percentage of deserving and desperate women being cared for there.
One more thought: Why don’t hater-bloggers use their real names? Fear? Embarrassment?
What do you like to do for fun? Oh I make fun of people on the Internet.
Ahhh. Good luck with that.
Party Pant’s “real” name is all over the internet.
“Why don’t hater-bloggers use their real names?” Asks the dude with Quirk for a screen name.
My name is Adam Quirk.
Party Pants real name may be everywhere, but it is noticeably missing from his/her own site. Coward.
Adam quirk is her fiance.
Investigative journalist in the making.
Gee, maybe because I’m not trying to get my name out there so I can whore for a book deal, Adam. It takes an estimated 20 seconds to find my real name. Why don’t you look it up? Lazy.
Go take a picture of your Park Slope Princess in a space ranger outfit and discuss over organic almost sort of vegan except for the cheese dinner how you just want to live in peace in quiet in Brooklyn.
The book deal came to her, not vice versa, Alice. But my question is still valid, why not put your name on your work?
Why should I? My “work”??? You didn’t care about my “work” until I called your princess out on her classist bullshit. Now you care about my ethics? My “work”. This isn’t my “work” this is a blog. Not everyone regards their blog as their “work”.
I am so sick of this ‘usernames anonymous blahblahlblahalsdfj haters’ bullshit. This is just a pathetic way for people like you and Jessica and the hundreds of other bloggers to dismiss anything said about them that hurts their feewings. It’s telling that this is your route of discrediting my post. Don’t YOU have better things to do? Like maybe telling some homeless people to get a job?
Her personal blog links to this page and vice versa. Her name has appeared on many posts and comments here. What’s your point?
i have a very painful, throbbing boner for party pants now.
Bad people exist, but so do sick people. Addicts are sick, and that includes alcoholics. They need treatment, not demonization.
There’s a debate to be had over how best to help addicts. Knowing hundreds of them myself, I’m an advocate of letting them hit rock bottom as soon as possible. Shelter life is often rock bottom for many people. I have several friends in recovery who live in shelters and are busting their asses to get out. I know a few who are in no rush to leave. Bottom line: I am glad there are shelters where they can be safe while they sort out their lives.
I’m very sympathetic to the anti-tax argument – my views on that are extreme, borderline anarchist. But frankly, I’m more concerned with rampant corporate welfare than battered women getting their lives subsidized by the state as opposed to private donors.
Bottom line: People are dealing with crap that you or I cannot even begin to imagine. That doesn’t give them carte Blanche to act like a-holes, and asking people to pipe down often works if you ask the right way. But if struggling people were the biggest target of my ire, I’d have to wonder what was up with me.
Uh, that’s “carte blanche,” not “Blanche”. Stupid iPhone.
That’s the thing. And it’s a seemingly trite thing to say, there are no easy answers. I’ve been working in the trenches for over 10 years of my life and it’s the truth. I do agree with you, in regards to addicts the quickest way is to simply hit rock bottom (sometimes multiple times).
Thing is, I know this shelter. I wrote successful grants for them, among other things. They are very proactive about their image. I’m sure they are just as disturbed by the rebel rousers. This is a domestic violence shelter that has a sophisticated PR staff (all volunteere) who has worked with them from the beginning to make the community-shelter relationship as cordial as possible. If her post had stuck to mainly a critique of the outside chaos, she may have a point. However, picking on the purchases of EBT card holders and “obese women” is unnecessary. It just lacks empathy and mercy.
I agree. I do have empathy for the majority of these women, and I’m glad that they are able to use the amazing armory building for a good cause (the other half is an awesome YMCA too).
Struggling people aren’t the biggest target of our ire. Living next to a shelter though, I have to assume we see more of them than the average person. The more people of any group you interact with, the more likely you are to have conflicts with that group. That goes for everyone, everywhere, throughout history. So saying that we hate homeless people isn’t really valid, because we just happen to have more interactions with them than other people.
Please, PP, delete that asshole’s last comment which DIVULGES THE SECRET LOCATION OF A WOMAN’S SHELTER. How insensitive and utterly classless (just like your lady friend, I presume).
*women’s, not woman’s. Rage momentarily got the better of me.
Agreed. I am literally ANGRY with RAGE.
Ha. But really.
I can’t control all the a-holes I encounter, so I try to control my own reactions to their behavior. It’s just plain more effective than ranting and expecting them to change. People are a-holes, myself included, this is life.
I do this too. 99% of the time when something bothers me I try to see the world from the other person’s point of view. But there is a balance between accepting that people are assholes, and trying to make changes to decrease assholes’ negative impact on the community. This is why there are speed bumps and crossing guards. There are bad drivers, so society decided to impose limits on driving. It’s one of the ways society makes progress. Another way is taking acid, and another way is Batman.
Well, I’m against speed bumps too, so no wonder we don’t exactly see eye-to-eye.
I live in Stuy Town, which is populated mostly by old people and young families. Recently, some younger people moved into my building and have taken to standing directly outside the front door after 11pm, talking loudly and smoking. The first time I encountered them, I said, “Guys, I know I sound like a total etiquette cop here, but a lot of people probably have their windows open in this weather and your voices carry further than you think. Maybe using the benches would keep people off your cases, especially if their babies are trying to sleep.” They just stared at me and said thanks. I really wanted to rip them a new one – we have dozens of benches within 20 yards of that front door, but they saw nothing wrong with making everyone else walk through their American Spirit fug.
Rude people are everywhere, from every socio-economic background. I try to cut the ones fleeing violent homes a break. I figure they probably didn’t get a very good start in life as it is, which likely isn’t the case for the jerks in my building. But you can’t bitch people into having good manners, as my parents would tell you any day of the week.
Twat, I lived one block away for two years and it shelter didn;t even crack the top thousand things that annoyed me.
SHUT UP. DO NOT CARE. Although I do care that you have divulged the location of the shelter. Asshat.
Seriously? You all but give the names of the women seeking protection there!! Are you THAT clueless?
Wait, I’ll answer that. Yes. You are.
Having lived in a woman’s shelter and had my abuser stalk me to it because of someone being careless with divulging the location, I would like to say a huge FUCK YOU ADAM QUIRK. You are a scummy piece of shit for this comment.
I was listening until I got to your blithe comparison of shelter women to “a friend who’s down on her luck.” Seriously? The willful ignorance is hurting my teeth.
BTW, if you use your entire EBT card of $5 chocolate bars (You can’t…FYI….what you purchase is tightly controlled), you wouldn’t be able to go back in a week and get another $100 on your card. You’d have to wait until the first of the month. Use it or lose it all in a $30 period. Most single women, without mental illness or disability, get around $60-70 a month, if they are lucky.
Go fuck yourself.
If Brooklyn bothers you, leave it. And don’t fucking move to SF either.
Dear Mr. Quirk,
Your girlfriend is a class-A cunt. So are you. A pair of miserable little shits who wouldn’t know hard times for these times if Thomas fucking Gradgrind popped a cap in your ass. Please leave Park Slope, that hideous criminal-ridden slum, and settle in some lily-white expanse of tract mansions much more suited to your non-existent taste and toilet-seat sensibilities. You will be much happier and so will we.
I bask in the fact that the worst person I know would spit twice rather than suffer your company for five minutes.
I rate this post five stars. *****
So do I!!!
I’m AnnaPelt, and I approve this message.
Yes–how long until you move back to Indiana? One of the whitest states in the country. Should be a good fit. You can take the closeted racists classist spoiled guilty farmers market hippies out of the Midwest but…
Since you are apparently Jessica’s spokesperson or whatever, pass this along to her: After reading your weightist, bigoted, and privileged perspective on impoverished women, I do not think I’d touch your “book” if it were handed to me for free with a $100 bill in the jacket. Do you realize that, statistically, 99.9% of women in prison and shelters have a history of abuse, most often, sexual abuse (that means rape, molestation, and incest)? I learned this widely known fact in my Women’s Studies class. (It probably wouldn’t hurt you to take one, considering you revere femininity by way of the 1950s, an era in which women were tragically oppressed by societal expectations.) The lower-income population buys junk food because it is what they can afford. And they do not have the privilege of an education, like you, to understand the components of healthy eating. If you read the news, you would know that this is an epidemic in our country, not just in predominantly white upper-middle-class Park Slope. If you’re so enraged and want to, as your fiance! fiance! fiance! professes, be heroic white people who “affect positive change in society,” I encourage you to donate a portion of the proceeds of your book to a program that provides education in nutrition to disadvantaged women rather than practicing white privileged superiority.
I would love to reach through the computer and kiss you on the mouth right about….now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OUMkqD8Hg0&feature=youtube_gdata
Inner City Pressure. They did move back to New Zealand at the end to be shepards, just saying.
SHOT ON MY STREEEEEEETTTTTT!!!!! YAY!
Some are born that way, but most are molded.
Yes dear, it’s called institutionalized poverty. And yes, your comments are both bigoted and entitled.
Oh, these assholes are soon off on their free honeymoon to Iceland, which they bilked from the internet, along with all their other free shit.
I wonder when all those fat, lazy, chocolate eating, beer drinking, abused women last had a vacation. I suppose if we gave them each a computer with internet, they could become beggars too.
What a fucking douchebag you are, Quirk. Go and baby your shitty bitch of a wife. You two DESERVE each other. You both are a waste of space.
Also, I dislike people who steal, honk their horns for no reason, play their music too loud, or rev their bike engines. I want to punch them all in their throats.
If average city noise common to any large town bothers you two so much then move to Omaha.
So you are against trying to affect positive change? Instead, you suggest giving up in defeat, and moving away from your problems.
If people didn’t play their music too loud, honk their horns, or rev their motorcycle engines, would the average citizen be more or less happy with their daily lives?
What about theft? Is that cool?
You are so right. Next time I want to make some positive change in Brooklyn I will yell out my window and tell people to shut up. I will make a tumblr post highlighting my disgust with their food purchases. I will call women who are at their last resort “obese”.
I will influence positive change by complaining about motorcycle engines, honking horns, and neighbors playing loud music.
You’re right, I’m cured, removing this blog. THANK YOU. Excuse me while I run out and buy The Secret now.
youre using your own frame of reference to create a binary system of what positive and negative change is. youre putting peoples behaviors in a box as bad or good based on nothing but your own observations. there isnt anything logical about your argument because it fails to take into any context of the situation you and your finance chose to move into.
did it ever occur to you that those things dont bother other people, that people have bigger problems in their life like finding a job or food so they dont have the luxury of sitting on the internet and complaining about loud music and stuff?
yeah that stuff is annoying but get off your moral imperialism horse and quit trying to export what you thing is proper conduct of other people and worry about yourselves. quit thinking everyone has the same emotional and intellectual capabilities to make choices you think are “positive”.
jesus go volunteer at that shelter instead of sitting on the internet making judgments about people.
Do you understand how societies operate? Voting? If there weren’t people who were “annoyed” by rape and murder, there wouldn’t be laws against those things either.
Just because something isn’t as important as oil gushers or corporate fraud doesn’t mean it isn’t worth pursuing. There are ways to make life better for everyone, and I try to pursue them in many different ways.
One way is volunteering, you’re right. I volunteer an hour every week teaching people how to edit video and use the Internet. It’s what I know, so I share it.
Also, I have pleasant interactions with most people, am kind, and am a very good tipper. All contributions to the betterment of society.
Haters gonna hate.
“Haters gonna hate” that seems to be the sentence of the day. Get new material, champ.
LOL@ I’m Kind and a Good Tipper.
I’m honest and I tip what’s appropriate. where’s my fucking crown?
I know! “I am kind” no you’re not.
“I am a very good tipper, it contributes to the betterment of society”. Oh yeah ask your waiter how much beer, ice cream and meth he spends your tips on.
“I affect change by volunteering, I teach people how to use tumblr”.
I have to go, I can’t take anymore,
Manners didn’t come by way of legislation. Regulating the social and personal doesn’t work (hello, drug war). Civil rights don’t include the right not to be annoyed.
Why yes, I do understand how societies operate. I also equate the behavior cited above with rape and murder.
You are a twisted little shit.
What positive change are you affecting other than sitting around here divulging the secret location of a women’s shelter? Srsly, I hate you.
What is wrong with you people? Have you never used the Internet before?
Google “park slope armory womens shelter”.
You’re seriously fucked up.
DUUUUUDDDDEEE!!!
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Already!!!! How can you stand yourself????
You are a pompous ass.
Totally, lol.
You don’t want to do the hard work of fixing society’s problems (believe it or not, tip inflation hasn’t helped end poverty–yet!), but you don’t want the government to do it either?
As someone who doesn’t want to expend the effort myself, I offer a protip: STFU about your “tax dollars” if those are basically the sum of your contribution to humanity. You will seem like less of a douche, even if you aren’t.
you are affecting positive change with your…tumblr?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Please, get real…
Sorry, that is the mesage for Adam Quirk…
youre a fucking dick, please see your way out (it’s the x at the right or left of your tab, depending on your browser).
dont you realize how fucking stupid and dangerous to identify where women’s shelters are?? you are putting those people in serious danger.
i could go on with all the other outrageous and egregiously retarded thoughts you’ve shared with me but i have some candy bars and boxes of franzia to buy before my corner mart closes for the evening.
*shared with us
they dont get it. theyve built up the pretty divide between them and THE OTHERS so they dont understand how it could ever possibly be them on the streets.
its called luck of the womb. not everyone has the equal opportunity to change but neither of these two seem to grasp it.
Very private information, obviously:
http://www.parkslopechurch.com/park-slope-armory-womens-shelter-/
Well seeing as you know all about it, you can pop next door and go and do some volunteer work there. Go Lamb of God, go affect change instead of writing obout it on your tumblr.
These fucking people I swear, I need to go and lie down in the fridge for an hour.
Dear Adam Quark/ Quirk,
You can’t handle this neighborhood. IRL OR online. You are employing the same whiny strategy in both places, opening the window and yelling and whining and bitching. Then you are surprised when people whine yell and bitch right back.
If you have issue with you neighbors, you could go TALK TO THE SHELTER ADMINISTRATION about it like a real GROWN UP. Or VOLUNTEER there to become PART OF THE FABRIC OF THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH YOU LIVE.
Instead of acting like a whiny tourist. But I guess you are actually a tourist in your own neighborhood, just renting to own, seeing yourself as a hunan and everyone else as inhuman, until you can afford to live near and blog near a better class of people?
Uh huh.
Good Luck with that.
Sincerely
14 year Brooklynite
This is/you are ridiculous – huge waste of time and totally pointless talking to you altogether.
…you DO know that women’s shelters aren’t…secret societies, right? They aren’t invisible or anything, okay? How silly! Thanks for the LOL this morning.
P.S. I work at a shelter, but I can’t say which one because I’d hate to reveal that it exists and endanger everything from woman to mouse who lives there. Hope you understand!
1) this thread is two years old creeper.
2) Yea, women in abusive relationships can easily end it by moving into a shelter. Everyone knows shelters are the magical end all and abusive partners give up once a woman crosses their doors. Abusive people never stalk their partners and they would never wait outside a shelter or even enter one! They are just so magical!
Then move to a village high on a mountain. And pray, like really pray, that you don’t ever lose your job, get seriously ill with no health insurance, lose your home and end up living in a shelter. Because people will say you are a bad seed, and crucify you for eating ice-cream.
love that you had to mention your big city law & order moment. please. save it for a campfire story to entertain the townsfolk back in the midwest, shit doesn’t impress anybody here. now, if you’ll excuse me, i have to go try and scrape the echos of a thousand john cougar mellancamp shit stains off the inside of my brain.
OMG Look at Idiot Puppy’s comments on the law and order post
“Your tax dollars at work people! 35% of your income goes to joksters like the MTA and New York City Police officers.”
Yeah and fuck you MTA workers and cops, my precious blogging dollars don’t belong to you people, I needs shoes. I die.
That was where she lost me, she has no idea the work that police officers and MTA workers do BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HARD WORK IS.
In another post she was patting herself on the back for riding in a hybrid and taking the “jokster” subway because she is the solution, not the problem to the oil spill, ya’ll!
I LOVE THE AIRING OF THE GRIEVANCES!
I dislike people who deep throat their own self importance, they vomit their smug all over the internet.
I dislike vapid, conceited princesses, who take pictures of themselves in crappy clothing in order to mask that they are anything but a vapid twat with a camera and a domain.
I dislike people who read the Secret and then saddle it up like fucking High Ho Silver and regurgitate its bullshit all over their web page, instead of taking a leap into self awareness and realize that it’s a bunch of poppycock. (because the downtrodden of the world are there because they need an attitude adjustment!)
I dislike people who think their dietary choices are of such importance, they cannot stop blathering about it on the net, never once identifying the irony that lies in the fact that 85% of their outfit was constructed in sweat shops in third world countries.
I dislike people who move to the city, do stupid shit like leave their bike out where other people can get to it, then complain when their shit is stolen. Complain about the noise, the diversity, the little nuances that make living in the city, living in the city. GO BACK TO INDIANA.
I dislike bigots and classists, but I really dislike when bigots and classists try to make excuses for their bigoted and classist behavior.
I dislike people who put catsup on their eggs.
I dislike people who spell catsup as “ketchup”.
I dislike life coaches.
I dislike people who try to “school” another group of adults about how the government works, when it is obvious to everyone else that said person is an idiot.
I dislike spineless women who cannot fight their own fights and who will never have half of the strength and courage of the women in the neighboring shelters who try to find a little comfort by way of chocolate. If this “woman” (using the term loosely, because from what I can see, she is merely an entitled, petulant child) had to walk a block in the shoes of the women she so callously demeans, she would shrivel up and die.
“I dislike spineless women who cannot fight their own fights and who will never have half of the strength and courage of the women in the neighboring shelters who try to find a little comfort by way of chocolate. If this “woman” (using the term loosely, because from what I can see, she is merely an entitled, petulant child) had to walk a block in the shoes of the women she so callously demeans, she would shrivel up and die.”
APPLAUSE!
i think it speaks volumes about the subject in question that her ill fated future ex husband has to step in and speak for her because she is too much of an inarticulate, ignorant moron to say anything other than “ew, icky homeless people, please get them off the sidewalk, i’m about to take 18 photos of my brand new new head to toe co-opted by mall of america outfit!”
by the way, i wonder what her sponsors would have to say about comments like these?
i mean, case in point, she comes on here and all she comments on is that the picture you used isnt of her. *blink*
yes! come defend your own post; quirky didn’t write it. or, hide because you don’t know why in the world the things you posted could be offensive to anyone (except fat people but really….they ask for it, AMIRITE!)
Seriously who over the age of 17 has their man come defend them over some tiny blog’s post?
Oh right, the same kind of princess who can’t handle negative comments because they make her cry.
Yes, shouldn’t she be discussing her dissatisfaction with her living conditions with her husband, rather than blaming her neighborhood for being her neighborhood? Did they not know the shelter was there before they moved in, or were they so entranced by the name Park Slope that they neglected to consider the particulars of their block?
Sounds like she needs a bigger income to be happy. C’est la vie, Passive-Aggressive Puppy.
I think it’s sweet that her man stepped up for her. That’s what marriage is all about–fighting each other’s fights.
You people are REALLY on the hunt for things to complain about. I kind of don’t get it, sorry.
Necro-post!
Though, I love reading about self important white people from Indiana who move to urban areas and get all anal raped when the people whose neighborhood they moved into don’t live like they do.
Luckily, the Quirks took their bourgeoisie butts back to the corn fields of Indiana, so NYC doesn’t have to deal with them anymore. They belong there. It stays “White” out later.
I think it’s ridiculous to expect people with EBT cards to live ascetic lifestyles, because it suggests that they’re bad people who deserve punishment. If I were ever in a position where I qualified for food stamps, it would probably be a pretty gloomy period of my life, so I would probably indulge in ice cream and bread, at the least!
This whole classist rant was so gross, because the disturbance caused to Jessica by the bus stop noise is insignificant compared to the HELL endured by those people everyday. Hey battered women, could you please buy your gross bread someplace else? It’s an eye sore to my Sex and the City fantasy.
I get part of what she is saying, that she is pissed her tax money goes to people who, instead of buying nutritious food and necessities, purchase things like ice cream sandwiches and beer. The problem is it’s not her place to judge these people and their depressed, hard luck behavior.
There are very few people who are at their finest behavior when their life consists of a homeless shelter, govt assistance, and waiting for a bus because they can’t afford a 300 dollar bike. Sometimes they are going to eat processed shit and drink beer to deal with it. We will post signs to inform them to beg your pardon next time they run into you, dearie.
And hey, I understand that loud music, horn honking, and engine revving is disrespectful. But it’s part of living in an area where 8 million people are crammed on top of each other. Yelling out the window and “venting” on tumblr with the type of language Jessica used isn’t just healthy complaining, it is just as insensitive to these other people as playing Pavement at blast volume at 2am.
This isn’t you two trying to “affect positive change”. It’s you two being a couple of entitled assholes expecting the entire world to adjust to your needs. Get over yourselves.
Exactly, this sums it up perfectly. I’m just baffled that she’s so horrified by PARK SLOPE of all places. Come on, princess.
Perfectly said, PP, and j’adore you for telling it like it so is.
It’s also the link between poverty and obesity and health. You can buy ice-cream bars and chips for 25c in a bodega. In Whole Wages, 25c would only get you half a yoghurt coated raisin.
Exactly. You go to Whole Foods with your EBT, not only do you get the side-eye, but you can’t buy anything. Junk food is cheap, energy dense, and won’t spoil. Also, you have zero ‘funemployed’ BK friends who are collecting unemployment and spending on whatever they please? Do you ask them where their drink money is coming from?
Actually, you’re right on. They’re this pretty basic psych thought called “The Hierarchy of Need”, which probably isn’t required to get a prestigious fashion merchandising degree (how that takes four years I’ll never know) from the OMG IU. Basically, where you can’t really take on self-improvement until you’re done with a) food, water, pooing, sleeping THEN, if you’re lucky b) security financial/family/personal safety (and living in a homeless doesn’t secure this concern).
So, expecting people who are trying to put a roof over their head AND go on an OMG voyage of self-improvement/discovery is incredibly selfish and out of touch. But, if you’ve been raised to never actually secure anything for yourself except for shills then yeah, I guess you’d have no clue.
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I’m too effing mad to write well. So I guess Jessica Schroeder blogs angry a lot.
These people (Jessica and Adam) sound like spoiled little brats. Park Slope is a very nice neighborhood (I believe it was the #1 neighborhood to live in in New York magazine’s latest poll) and lots of people would love to live there. I mean seriously, SERIOUSLY, if you cannot handle fucking PARK SLOPE, you need to get out of the city. Might I suggest Connecticut?
Seriously. It’s Park Slope. Where the #1 complaint is “too many strollers”. When Princess and her Prince move to East New York, then I might have some sympathy.
Yup, #1 Most Livable Neighborhood in New York – http://nymag.com/realestate/neighborhoods/2010/65374/index1.html. Granted, NY Mag isn’t the gold standard, but still. Nut up, kids.
I lived off of Classon and Lexington in the Bed Stuy/Clinton Hill area previously. A kid got beaten into a coma on my street, one guy was shot in my intersection, another around the block, and there was gunfire at least once a month, but it was still quieter than our current residence, mostly because I lived on one of the rare non-through streets. Moving to Park Slope was a choice we made, mainly to get away from the violence.
Looking back, it was not a great decision to move to this specific location, mainly because of the drunken screaming and the bus stop. It’s noisy, and we both work from home most of the time. Makes it hard to concentrate on an audio edit when buses and cars are honking, or some drunk lady is screaming profanity at a toddler. We’re planning on moving.
don’t move anywhere there are OTHER PEOPLE. you won’t get on.
Seriously. Better move to rural Maine where you won’t have to be exposed to OTHER PEOPLE and THEIR NOISE.
Christ why do they even live in NY?
These two will be living in a gated community within two years and we know that nothing bad ever happens in those places!
Ha. Yes. I got robbed in a home invasion robbery a few years ago. He threw a paving stone through the sliding glass door, came to find me in the bathtub, pulled me out by my neck and stole my wallet.
He’d climbed the wall of the ‘gated community’.
I now live near the tracks right on the border of what used to be a very bad area of town they’re slowly rehabilitating. No problems, no paving blocks through the window, worst thing that’s happened is someone else’s car getting broken into.
Holy shit. What a nightmare! :(
If you can’t deal with cars honking and people yelling, you should really move out of NYC. I say this without snark, but you really don’t seem built for city life. Just try to look at that post and think about where you admittedly chose to live and think about all the niceties of Park Slope (and there are many) and then try to understand why people are shitting on you. I understand the noise can be annoying and I’ve certainly been annoyed by it many times, but it’s NYC. You know coming in to this city that you’re going to live amongst noise. You’re privileged to live in Park Slope at all, it’s a hot commodity. So to create a post that basically hates on the residents (of Park Slope. Park Slope!!) that are either living in a shelter or probably about to get priced out of the neighborhood because they’re fat and/or loud… yeah. You guys sound like dicks and I cannot understand how you don’t see that.
Yeah I definitely see that. I would likely have the exact same reaction if I hadn’t experienced the author’s frustration first hand.
You know what else is frustrating?
Living in a shelter and eating on 75 dollars a month worth of your tax money. I can’t wait for you to experience THAT frustration first hand.
No actually, if I was in a store with a friend and they were judging food stamp purchases and their first reaction was “I’m paying for that, how dare they, they should be ashamed of themselves!” I’d start to reconsider my perception of my friend.
People have bad days, the bike, that sucks. But to constantly look around, from a very priveleged vantage, and without any true insights to the context and question how people use their time and waste energy or resources, that’s an insecurity and level of judgment is just sad.
I think some audio editors use headphones? You should try it.
I speak for Indiana, we do not want her back..