Leandra, of that Man Repeller fashion blog, has supposedly spent the last 18 months banking off her schtick as a style rebel who can’t keep a guy because of her weird get ups. Finally on Wednesday she admitted she had been dating a man since summer 2010, and announced that she would now have a new “finger party” addition – Man Repeller code for getting engaged.
She originally had some long, rambling post up about how it all happened, which she deleted and replaced with a shorter version. But as predicted in her original post, the anonymous meanies soon started demanding she explain her behavior of the last year and a half:
Anonymous said…
so you were lying about being single this whole time, obviously.
DECEMBER 15, 2011 9:59 AMAnonymous said…
ya- love you and your blog, but this post is defending yourself that you’re engaged. Good for you girl! Don’t defend yourself for that. Defend yourself that you’ve been lying to your readers saying you’ve been single, and “that a date put in a cab after dinner” because you wore leather shorts.
DECEMBER 15, 2011 10:03 AMAnonymous said…
I loved yr blog. So much that I was willing to overlook the rape jokes and the fact that you don’t disclose when you are something you got for free, even though I find that unethical. But lying all this time to your readers by saying that you are single is the last straw. Congratulations and best of luck to you and your fiance but you have lost me as a reader.
DECEMBER 15, 2011 10:52 AMAnonymous said…
ya it’s fine if she wants to keep her life private, but don’t LIE. You obviously didn’t go on a date in leather shorts who put you in a cab after dinner last month.And you can still be a man repeller and in a relationship with something like “Good thing it’s already serious, cus my boyfriend said he would break up with me over these studded heels.”
DECEMBER 15, 2011 12:11 PM
I do not follow this Leandra person and I’m not going to go dig through 18 months worth of her wearing newspaper hats and belted Slankets to figure out if she’s actually been passing herself off as some dating impaired single girl. But it’s fairly clear in her original post that she knew this announcement would leave many of her readers feeling betrayed (“Before you jump the gun and start pounding at your keyboard in an anonymous commenter rage…”) so I’m not sure why she announced it at all.
This is an example of how bloggers need to pick a damn lane about what they share on their blog. You can’t pretend to be single for a year and a half under the guise of “personal life is private” and then go announce your engagement because you want to “share things” with your readers. When you use that logic it makes it sound like you either just want to brag about getting engaged, or you are willing to lie in order to keep up the schtick that makes your blog some money. Either way, you don’t get to act like a defensive little brat about how your fans will react.
Her writing style and overuse of bold are far more offensive than hiding her relationship status.
AGREE. I tried following her blog, but her font made me stabby so I stopped. Why so many bloggers do this, I don’t know. It’s not cute, and it makes them sound dumb.
She comes off a quintessential hipster so I’m not surprised.
She is SO fucking obnoxious and painful to look at. I was a brief reader of her blog when that was the only “alternative” fashion blog out there but I had to stop reading because of all the ugly (her personality, looks and clothes)
you nailed it. she does have a really ugly personality!
Here are the pictures of Leandra Medine and her fiance
http://guestofaguest.com/galleries/december/12/man-repellers-birthday/610202/imghttp://guestofaguest.com/galleries/december/12/man-repellers-birthday/610202//img
http://guestofaguest.com/galleries/december/12/man-repellers-birthday/610202/
Here are the pics of Leandra Medine and her fiance from her last birthday
http://www.wix.com/alohaitsme/manrepellergetsafiance
or http://guestofaguest.com/galleries/december/12/man-repellers-birthday/610202/
nobody cares
unfortunately, they do
I think the dicussion here was about blogging ethics, not who the fuck this rich chick actually is with/not with.
well, and young marriages
I don’t really care about her one way or the other, but she’s full of herself for a really young age. I was and am pretty full of myself but at least I’m aware of it and keep it in check?
The other thing is can we stop with all these white trust fund princesses telling us how to live life and acting like they’re just like us? You’re not! Gwyneth Paltrow is more fun when she cuts out the Goop shit and starts being real.
how old is she anyway? 22? too fucking young to be engaged. this is a starter marriage
She’s only 22? Damn….I thought she was like 35. She looks really old to me (not that 35 is old) but she just doesn’t look 22 to me.
I thought she was in her late 20s on a first glance. I think it’s her affected attitude.
I agree that she acted really weird and immature. But lets not jump on people for getting married young. I was married at 21, have 2 kids, and my we’ll be celebrating our 6 year anniversary this this month. “starter” marriage my arse. We’re as happy as clams. If you find the right person at a young age, good for you, it’s a blessing.
oops double reply! hahaha silly me :)
You found the right person for you, but I feel like most people my age (23) don’t know what they want so getting married right out the gate isn’t smart.
Fine you are happy. And we are entitled to our opinion that in general getting married that young is dumb. In case you haven’t heard about the divorce rate in this county, let me enlighten you. It’s very high. Probaby would be even higher if everyone got married during adolescence.
I hate this PC bullcrap that everyone”s choices are above scrutiny. Feel free to get married young and I’ll feel free to make fun of marriage in general.
There’s always exceptions, but on the average the younger you are the greater the risk for divorce. From NPR: “for every year a woman delays marriage — into her early 30s — she reduces her risk of divorce.”
See it’s a weird thing, there are only two couples I know who have stayed together a very long time, like 17 years long, and both of those couples have been together since very young. But one of those relationships is foul on the inside.
I don’t know how much you grow if you’re tied to one person from a young age though, because twenty year old me is a completely different person to forty year old me; twenty me and forty me wouldn’t even be friends.
It strikes a nerve for me too, like Kelly. I think most young people getting married get married for the wrong reasons and are NOT mature enough to make the decision they are making. My brother is 23 and he wants to get married, and I don’t think it is a good idea. But I was married 5 months after turning 18. This January is our 6th wedding anniv. and we’ve been together for 7 years, and I don’t think we made the wrong decision at all. It hurts though when strangers tear you apart for getting married young- the things people have told me/wished me!- when in my case, admittedly rare, was a good honest choice for the right reasons. But, Man Repeller can GOMI for being a liar just for the blog audience, then changing her mind and getting ‘real’. Make up your mind- fake internet persona or real deal?
I’m surprised people are taking the “man repeller” brand/persona seriously, as though she had publicly sworn not to be involved with men and throw all of her energy into repelling them. Particularly since I think she’s cute. If we’re talking about blogs to nominate for ability to repel men, well…. I’ll just leave this here.
Bah! My image did not post! Just imagine a picture of Rider Strong’s buttcut.
yeah. I have been married since I was 17 and we’re coming up to 12 years of marriage.
I think getting married so young is a big gamble and I am bloody lucky it paid off.
I’m not offended or upset at her mistake, but I don’t like how she handles the whole deal either. I don’t like the idea of her doing a 180 on something like, I dunno, what her blog is built on (her, her life, how she dresses, being single and man-repelling). I’m just going to say if blogging is her job- and the blog is her buisness- she just made a mistake that could cost her a pay cut or worse!
No one is tearing anyone apart, jeez. Expressing an opinion about marriage that young being overall ridiculous for most people isn’t something to take personally.
My brother and his wife got married at like 20 and 22 and they have been married for like 22 years. My impression is that the divorce rate is a little lower than 50 percent these days for people married in their early 20′s or younger. Yes, this is really high, but it also means that out of every two couples you know who gets married super young, one WON’T get divorced – so even though divorce is common, not getting divorced is equally common.
explination- no-one here has ever hurt my feelings or ‘torn’ me apart. i’m talking about past experiences. all I meant was that when the subject comes up, it reminds me of people who were really nasty to me about it- in no way is it anyone here at gomi’s fault! not butt-hurt over comments in this area
^ that was to JFA, and pardon the spelling/poor sentance construction
Aww no harm no foul.
I think the divorce rate is lower in couples getting married younger because most feel a religious obligation to get and be married, even “forever” in the case of the LDS. I have no clue is that makes up for the statistical difference but I could see that as a contributing factor for some in the young marriage population.
feather: erm. It is a factor in older couples too….? Religion has declined, not increased. I know plenty of older marraiges held together by beliefs.
The divorce rate for “young” couples is actually higher than the average. I can’t be bothered to look for links, google has them though.
Also the 52% average rate which is now out of date, does not include people who just separate and don’t divorce. The rate is way higher.
Sorry, too old and have been round too many blocks to pretend to be naive about relationships anymore.
Yes, you’re pretty much a minority (statistically) on marrying young and staying together. It’s been shown over and over again that the younger you get married, the more like you are to divorce later on.
Even with the Amish, LDS, Orthodox Jews, etc., etc., factored in, the divorce rate for first marriages under age 28 is the highest.
There’s a reason the phrase “starter marriage” became a thing.
Divorce rates by age are conveniently on the front page of divorcerate.org right now.
This is good because I am lazy and sleepy from a giant meal of risotto.
Why the disparity in men and women’s divorce rate for under 20 I wonder? Odd.
Whatever. I mean, I made a stupid comment. But I don’t care about this because I think regardless of age, marriage is hard work and best of luck to you!
Don’t worry guys! Rich white people with college degrees have a lower divorce rate. So dry your tears.
Also, to those of you who hate thought of someone getting married before 30–if you wait too long how the hell are you supposed to have a family? Fertility goes down every year. I say this because for many having kids is a huge life goal. If you want more than one but don’t start until 35, it’s harder.
There are lots of good reasons to get married at any age, and lots of good reasons not to get married at any age.
The statistics are another thing entirely.
@ vapidcunts – probably because it’s not unusual for women to be a few years or so younger than men they’re dating. No stats to back this up, but just what I’ve seen.
A commenter said she was 22 and I wanted to comment on how young I thought that was to be married – I think she should keep on repelling men for a while longer – but didn’t want to offend anyone here who married young.
Anyways, if she really is 22, how very Mormonesque Style Blogger of her!
Dear lord – some of the stuff she wears is interesting, but unapproachable at my budget (and 99% of America’s). Are her parents still financing her, or is she just that amazing @ 22 to be buying $600 shoes everyday?
in some article (linked somewhere on gomi), she said she makes something like 10k a month from the blog. but it also appears that she still lives with her parents.
Face/palm for not being insightful enough to start a blog full of incoherent ramblings after college. I could’ve been a stallionaire already damnit!
Meh, if people want to be offended, let them. The statistics suck for those who marry young. I loved my twenties way too much to ruin them by getting married. I had a lot of fun, a lot of independence and sewed a lot of wild oats. I’m thankful for that.
If she is making 10k a month from writing like a schizophrenic and dressing like a homeless lady who thinks she is a punk rock hipster then I will shoot myself in my motherfucking head right now. Because srsly if this is what makes you 10k a month I really do not see the point in bothering to make a life happen any longer.
LOL PP. I agree. It’s also pretty hilarious that she’s incredibly wealthy anyway. There is no justice in the world sometimes.
she might have $, but she spends it all on her wardrobe to keep her audience. Soon she will not be making ANY money, her little fame will die, have little savings, and no life and she will be right where most people are right now. except maybe mommy&daddy will bail her out and get her a job somewheres.
I predict she will have a high paying fluff job at a magazine or fashion house within a year. Because that is how this shit works.
my comfort shall be that she will actually have to WORK in that case
Don’t forget, she also gets a shit ton of designer clothes for free. I bet she doesn’t even spend 1/10th of her money on her wardrobe. Man Repeller is definitely one of the few bloggers that magazines & fashion houses take seriously–my guess is because she’s already rich & skinny.
It’s…very odd. It’s NY. I can see if you live in a part of the country where young marriage is common…but why fuck get married so young otherwise! I don’t get it. People change drastically in their late 20s and beyond. I know, I know, marriages can be successful even when people get married young. But I’m entitled to think overall it’s a bad idea!
I agree with this sentiment. If it makes me come off as a judgmental bitch, I have no problems with that. I understand there are exceptions to the rule, but that’s exactly what I think functional young marriages are…exceptions. Isn’t marriage becoming obsolete anyways? Fingers crossed!
Ha! Yeah I’m just waiting for the parade of “Whatever I got married at 22 and i am SOOO HAPPY bla bla bla.” Talk to me in 20 years. There is just no reason to get married that young, unless you want to have babbehs maybe and it’s important to you to be married when you do…even that is not advisable. YOU ARE 22. WHY NOT WAIT A BIT TIL YOU ARE AN ADULT FOR MORE THAN 3 MINUTES.
I think it’s also really smart to go straight from living with your parents to being married. Everything about this screams “divorce within 5 years.”
22 wasn’t that long ago for me, but i am lollerskating all over my desk thinking about if i had married the guy(s) i thought at the time were OMG SO MEANT TO BEEEE!!1!
I like “lollerskating”. Hehehehe.
I’m married and I think that shit is/should be obsolete. I’m so sick of hearing politicians rage on about protecting the sanctity of marriage from innocent gay couples, when they’ve already pretty much ruined the institution with infidelity and divorce. I’ll start taking marriage seriously when there is jail time for divorcing someone.
I agree- most marriages do not work, especially young ones. Young marraiges working (like mine) are exceptions- people DO change a lot, my husband and I certainly have. Sometimes you grow together, but most of the time people seem to grow apart.
I’m now in my early 30s and the 4 couples I know who got married at 20, 21, 23 are all divorced.
So… that’s my experience. Why the hurry? Why not date for an extra year or two? Does someone need a fucking greencard?
Ehh, i married at 20 and whatev. Sometimes it works, not us divorced after 6 years, no kittens thanks. Now my new(ish) mancat and I have been together for 14 years and not married and people(effing in-laws) think its scandalous that we are not legally wed or have kittens. You can’t win either way.
I got married at 26, divorced three years later, don’t really regret certain parts but…have no fucking real interest in getting married again. I mean I didn’t really even then either – we eloped and it was also a rushed Visa thing. Anyway. Kinda sick of marriage, marriage talk, marrieds…who cares?
Married at 27, divorced at 30. No interest in the institution any more, thankyouverymuch. Either the relationship is gonna work or isn’t – having a party / religious ceremony / legal contract doesn’t actually make the two of you love each other more or communicate better. I just see it as a pointless hoo-ha now.
I was married at 27 and divorced 10 months later… We’d been together for 7 years prior to that.
My now SI and I have been together for almost 8 years and have two littles. Super strong relationship with no plans to make it official on paper.
21, married, and absolutely agree with you. There are plenty, if not the majority, of people that should not get married at my age. I’m a really old 21, and my huscat is a really old 23 (we’ve been through some shit, and neither of us has lived with or been supported by our respective parents for YEARS). However, in my family/culture, a lot of girls my age already have two babies by two different dads, so my getting married young was no big deal.
Yeah, everyone thinks they are at 21. Good luck though!
Good for you–it sounds like you have a mature attitude towards it. I hope you two beat the stats!
lol at all the folks who got married in their early 20s holding up spans of time shy of 10 years as some sort of trophy. Talk to me in 30 and then we will see if your early 20 something marriage was a starter or not!
eye rolls at everyone including you
Wow,since you hate all this PC bullshit and blah blah blah, let me just say that I am judging you to be just so fucking annoying and bitter, and shitty at being in a marriage for these same reasons. Get over it. People are allowed to make their own choices, and sure you’re allowed to judge, but at some point, don’t you just ever shut the fuck up? Stop pretending your an expert at anything.
BRAVO
you’re*
Are you speaking to me? If so please clarify your comment, as I’m having trouble comprehending your sentence structure. I never said that people couldn’t make their own choices, and I freely acknowledge that you can judge mine. :)
Ugh is responding to JFA.
she does in fact look 35.
She’s got to be, at least, 30.. she went out of her way to lie about being single, so I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t find it unethical to lie about her age.
If she did, she also magically changed every reference on the Internets to her graduating years from elementary school and high school. And this is someone who thinks that coming up with “arm party” is an amazing coup—we’re not exactly talking about Lex Luthor here.
hmmm I didn’t research her, obviously… okay then she is 22… I’ve never visited her blog and think its pretty shady that she mislead her readers, but I’m still not enticed to click on her blog to figure out why, just based on the GOMI post she seems obnoxious.
I got married when I was 20 (and so far it’s working out splendidly) but I wouldn’t recommend it to the average girl. Nope. No way. You’ll have more opportunities in life as an Unmarried person.
+1
Shes 22 and she still lives at home! She doesn’t really seem adult enough to be engaged.
this.
Unless you have a religious “obligation” to get married, as opposed to continue dating or have a long engagement, I don’t see the point of getting married so young. Would it hurt to have a long feeling-out period? As others have said, unless you want kids at that age (usually correlated with being very religious) what do you gain? Because what you’d stand to lose is a lot. Moreover, most of what you stand to lose includes things very few people would imagine or properly value at that age. Granted, it can work for some people, but the odds are against it.
I admit that I am biased because I am very progressive and not very religious. My 30 yr old self can’t even relate to my 20 yr old self. And all the young-married people I know, inc one of my brothers (who was 22 or 23, I forget) are extremely traditional and–no offense–boring. And the ones who arent? Lets just say that a bunch of those guys who never got to experience the single life in their mid/late 20s do quite a bit of screwing around on their wives.
The hubs and I married on the younger side, especially given that our friends/family tend to be marry later, so it made me feel redneck to be younger (We were engaged at 23). But I’m not a twit. I’m pretty sure that helped.
Manrepeller does not have that benefit.
I think *why* you get married matters a lot, too, more than anything else, at whatever age. It’s not like the divorce rate is stellar for the olds getting married, either. While my marriage is fantastic, though, I wouldn’t advise anyone to get married straight out of college or worse, younger; even marrying in our early twenties, we still had so much growing to do as people, and I can see how that could easily wreck a marriage as two people find themselves moving in opposite directions. There’s so much you’re figuring out at that age about who you’re going to be and how you want your life to look, and it isn’t easy adding another person’s needs and desires into that mix.
we still had so much growing to do as people, and I can see how that could easily wreck a marriage as two people find themselves moving in opposite directions. There’s so much you’re figuring out at that age about who you’re going to be and how you want your life to look, and it isn’t easy adding another person’s needs and desires into that mix.
I couldn’t word it better. Marriage is not for everyone, and is super hard, esp. in the beginning. Not easy at any age, but especially difficult for young people, even if you are mature for your age.
I could care less. So what if she gets married, it’s not like she’s going to stop dressing crazy. Isn’t the point of “man repelling” that she is dressing for herself?
Now, as far as getting engaged at 22 to your on again, off again boyfriend… well, good luck with that.
That’s not the point. The point is, has she been lying about her life in order to maintain some schtick for blog fame? And if so, she really has no right to be bitchy and defensive about the potential reactions of her readers when she announces everything she has told them about her personal life for the last year has been a lie.
Agreed. I don’t care that she’s engaged or that she is 22, but I think she should’ve not pretended for a year.
Then again, she has said numerous times that her rise to fame is dumb luck and she’s going to cash in while she can because one day it will come to an end.
Maybe this is the beginning of the end for Man Repeller?
I’m with you…I don’t read her blog but I thought it was just about “man repelling” clothes, i.e. extremely out-there fashion that only women can appreciate. It seems unimportant who she does or doesn’t date/marry. But again, I don’t read her blog and maybe she really was taking it to the next step and bemoaning her single life? That doesn’t even seem necessary!
She was talking about her “dates” and how they didn’t dig her wacky clothes, etc., etc.
Apparently it was either a big story or all the “dates” were the same boyfriend given different initials to make him more interesting, I don’t know.
I must not be much of a woman, because her fashion choices perplex me!
The point is that she is an experimental/exploratory fashionista who cares more about the art of having things on your body than the wearability fo them though she does aim to make them wearable. Idk did that make sense?
Part of the appeal of her blog was “OMG she’s so daring! She doesn’t give a crap what anyone things! EVEN MEN!!!”
Clearly false. Her whole schtick that was supposed to make her a unique blogger was fabricated. I’m not even saying it’s “wrong” (bc, really, other than some stupid ppl, who gives a fuck?) But I am saying it’s pathetic and sad.
*thinks
I had to read through that post three times to understand wtf she was saying – it’s like she and meanguy took lessons together or something.
I can’t be arsed enough to give a shit about her personal life, but I can understand why some readers are all, omg your schtick was making yourself completely undesirable but you’re saying somebody has actually been sexing you this whole time? The horror! But meh. I always liked her blog because she doesn’t take it seriously and I like seeing the fashion world get pissed on, but at the end of the day she’s still a skinny rich girl who had the luxury of devoting herself to full-time blogging and has been embraced by Conde Nast as a result.
“it’s like she and meanguy took lessons together or something.”
hahaha, THIS.
Hey now, don’t insult my fiance by comparing her writing to mine.
So, your fiancé is a blogger & a bottom?
I kid!
Except meanguy is smart and knowledge-y. And isn’t a FULL TIME BLOGGER.
(sorry, but I like meanguy and his commentary. even though he isn’t tiny and cute like C&C!)
She said months(?) ago she had a boyfriend, I don’t know why people are suddenly so shocked. Though her writing is hard to understand (which is why I usually skip it and just look at the pictures).
She’s very impressed with herself in her writing. I think in a few years she’ll look back and cringe.
The writing is so eyeroll worthy. The overuse of bold text drives me crazy.
I haven’t read the copy in months, either. I just look at the pictures. If people hadn’t talked about it here, I probably wouldn’t have known she was engaged until there were pics of her man repelling wedding dress.
I also want details on the guy she’s engaged to!
Something tells me he works in finance.
lol
He’s Jewish and has extremely rich parents. Just a guess!
Leandra has always been an SOMI because she makes me laugh. I kind of want to hate her because she’s spoiled and gets c/o everything, but I still like her.
I always liked that she dressed for herself and not for a man, but I didn’t realize that she’d been lying about being single this whole time. But if she was going to develop this single persona, she should’ve stuck with it, or never lied about it in the first place. Honestly, though, I don’t give two shits if she’s engaged or not (although she is SO YOUNG and that kind of makes me clutch my [metaphorical] old-lady pearls)
The fuck? My comment is fucking incoherent.
So sorry, so fat.
I’ve done this too. PP, can we please have a self-eraser/editor?
I haven’t been reading her long enough to be all invested in her personal life (especially since she’s like 12 compared my crazy cat lady ass), but she makes me laugh too, and I like some of the ways she interprets fashion.
Her privilege is part of what makes her MR persona work, I guess. But I think I liked her better when I just followed her on Twitter instead of reading the blog regularly, to be honest.
I’ve always liked her, too. She seems to legitimately like fashion and know what she’s talking about, which induces less rage when she’s invited to fashion week, given free designer shit, etc. Her copy is funny, but it’s basically the same every day, so I usually skip it. Actually, I haven’t visited her blog in months.. but she can SOMI all the same.
Wow. I can’t believe that woman has readers. Her writing style is almost as painful as the fug ass skirt over jeans thing. I couldn’t make it through a paragraph without getting a headache behind my left eye.
If I had read her post on my own, without PP’s interpretation, I would have thought she had just gotten laid. I couldn’t ascertain the point of those posts. Is the phrase “I’m engaged” anywhere in either of those piles of word vomit and I just couldn’t hang long enough to read them?
I agree with you Party Pants. I don’t care much for Man Repeller, but I do think it’s a sham if this whole time she was “Single” and not talking about her personal life yet was in a long-term relationship this whole time.
Also, how shitty for her to have such a happy time of life ruined by…drumroll…herself. If she’s going claim to be honest, then she can’t be honest about some things and not about others.
I went through my RSS reader, and finally found the post I was thinking of where she mentions the guy. November 21, 2011:
…Speaking of going home alone, I guess right now, underneath this image of me in my most attractive-to-the-male-eye pose, is as good a time as any to tell you something important. Honesty is the best policy and since you are virtually my best friends ev-or (see what I did just there? I love a good pun,) it’s time to spill the white beans about a certain friend, who is a man. Yes, it’s true. He is a man, he is a friend, he’s a man friend. He contributes to my arm parties, thinks sequins rock and drinks a certain drop crotch kool-aid I may or may not have single-handedly concocted.
“Crotch kool-aid” sounds like period juice. I can’t believe I just wrote that.
Giggles inappropriately
That was only from a month ago though and she didn’t make it sound very serious. She has been with the guy for over a year and within the past month decide to tell everyone she has a “man friend” and then the next day they are engaged. I think people have every right to be pissed that she lied about it for so long.
Since I don’t really care if someone doesn’t talk about their personal life, I get it. An interviewer asked her something about a bf and she was cagey about it. When I had a blog, I would never talk about my personal life. I think bloggers should take an “all or nothing” approach because readers tend to feel slighted, but I really couldn’t give a shit. I like the funny shit she puts together. It’s just entertainment for me.
Unless she was bitching 24/7 about being single, and then was all tee hee engaged, then I don’t see why people are all up in arms. If she alluded to a guy being in the picture, even if it seemed casual to readers (uhhh because maybe she doesn’t want those deets plastered all over the interwebz? maybe her man has a high profile jerb or just doesn’t want to be known?), why should people think it was some huge sham? It’s not like she was pulling Anthroholic levels of deceit on her readers.
^ reply not directed at you cola champagne, i agree with what you said.
I understand and totally agree.
I don’t see why people are all up in arms.
Ditto dat. After all, it’s the effen internet, FFS ~ don’t believe everything you read, ya know?
What I find most amusing though are the people getting so worked up over her being engaged at 22-years-old ~ so the fuck what if not everyone’s chronological life plan dovetails w/ your own?
I guess I was just under the impression that she made it appear as though she was single, dating different men, etc, throughout this past year and a half when she was actually in a serious relationship. But if she never really said one way or the other then I think not saying anything about it to her readers is fine. I don’t read her blog so I have no idea which one is true. From reading PP’s post and the comments the “haters” left that’s just the impression I got.
how do we know it’s been a year?
I don’t get the pun.
I…don’t get it either.
3rded.
I think the pun might be on ‘virtually’? Maybe? I’m stretching here…I didn’t see it right away either.
OMG, her fucking writing is irritating as all fuck. HOW DOES ANYONE READ THAT WILLINGLY.
There are some badly mixed metaphors, but I appreciate the attempt at 2nd person writing.
God that prose. You can cut the try-hard with a knife!
I get that point that people don’t care whether she’s single or not. However, she was being deliberately deceptive, even in that post in Nov, 2011. She made it seem casual. Also, she spoke about dates like they were different guys and like she wasn’t taken. She lied to her readers.
Maybe she did go on dates! Who knows. It could’ve been less serious than she was making it out to be. Except, I hope if you’re getting engaged, you’re not wining and dining multiple men.
22 is kind of ideal age for marriage in a strict Jewish culture. I’m not sure how religious she is, but in Orthodox culture, 22 is a perfect age, and apparently she feels the same, because she said yes.
I want to see what she’d do with maternity fashion very badly. Man Repeller, take off your birth control glasses and get to work!
Hopefully better than Jordan. *shudders*
Couldn’t be worse!
She’s Orthodox?
The school she went to was Orthodox, but from the way she dresses I’m guessing she doesn’t subscribe to that anymore.
Didn’t she go to the New School? Is that a secular school?
It’s a hippie/hipster school. Could not possibly be more secular.
My guess is that probably more than half of Ramaz graduates go to totally secular colleges, and a lot of the rest to Brandeis (which doesn’t have any religion-based disciplinary policies).
It’s kind of A Thing for a certain kind of wealthy Conservadox family to send their daughter there, but it doesn’t necessarily reflect a religion-dominated life.
I don’t know about her being Orthodox or Jewish, but somewhere on the Internet she’s mentioned that her mother is Persian and her dad is Turkish, so it probably is at least partially a culture thing.
i was going to leave a similar comment – even if she isn’t practicing per se, i would venture that the fact her parents sent her to that school is indication that the culture is important. i know many jewish girls, although not really religious anymore, still value the culture and got married as soon as college was over.
You have articulated it better than I. Plus, I feel like most people don’t stray too far from their roots, and apparently she still kind of adheres to the Jewish culture. In one of the videos, she mentioned something about it being Saturday and they shouldn’t be there or something to the effect that her parents weren’t keen on it.
I think she made a reference in some interview to being half Turkish?
Anyway, if she wants to get married at 23 then it’s her call, it’s silly for people to be getting mad at her for having a boyfriend or take that whole “man-repelling” act seriously. But if she lied to her readers as part of that act, then it is not cool. Still don’t care very much about the fact of the engagement, though.
i think the “man repelling” schtick can still work even if she’s got a boyfriend/husband, but i stopped reading her blog/twitter when she complained that the new york marathon was messing up her day because she lives on the upper east side & couldn’t get a cab. up until that point i was fine with envying her zillion-dollar wardrobe and clearly upper crust lifestyle, but bitching that a historical new york city institution messes up half a sunday morning for you once a year when i have to deal with the MTA every day at rush hour??? yeah, no thanks!!!!!!!!!
I see her on the 6 train almost every morning.
Does she wear her stuff outside of the house?
That marathon goes way longer than half the morning. But she should have just adjusted her plans.
true re: marathon. if i remember correctly the way she phrased it it came off as more, “poor me, because i live on the upper east side i have to have my life interrupted once a year for this thing.” eh. either way, i’m done following her.
My fiancé used to live in Harlem right by 5th and 127th. It interrupted his life too, but it wasn’t horrible. It was actually pretty cool ’cause he could track friends and just go out when they were nearby to look for them rather than stand outside for hours.
She must summer in the Hamptons because there are a zillion parades from May to September in NYC that fuck up traffic on the weekends as much if not worse than the marathon.
I remember trying to move apartments in the middle of I think Greek Day. DOOM.
Wasn’t it a Sunday? Like not a day where people commute to work anyway?
Oh wait, who am I kidding? She doesn’t have a job.
I read her blog for a minute before I realized that I don’t give enough of a shit about young rich people who wear clothes to wade through that many words all the time.
I honestly don’t get how people read this crap. To each her own I guess. I’ll keep rocking out my Kmart boots and I don’t give a crap about entitled rich people attitude, thanks!
ditto. better things to spend time with.
Agreed, Ms. McNutt, agreed.