Elizabeth Wurtzel (prozac nation) is dead at 52.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It comes back and it comes back in new places in new forms. Even if you get the clear.

My mom had it, had a 6 year "all clear" got it again. Got it a 3rd time 2 years later.

Was cancer free, clinically for the next 17 years and now has it in other places.

There was never any doubt in our minds it would return, one way or another.

This is almost exactly the same as my mother.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I loved her book. So sad. I had no idea she became a lawyer in a big law firm. What kind of law did she practice?

She wasn’t a lawyer. She just pretended to be one.

Wow you really have it in for her. Therapy, maybe?

[Anonymous]

This must have been a white woman thing. I'm 50 and Black and I do not remember this book. Is it just me?

[Anonymous]

I’m the PP who went to law school with her. To be clear, Elizabeth was never particularly interested in studying the law (she got a 152 or something like that on the LSAT) - but no one at my school doubted she was extremely talented. And she wasn’t a vanity hire - David Boies was a fan of hers, from what I heard. That said, she was never going to be a partner at BSF or any other big law firm. My classmates are all very sad, she was an incredibly charismatic and magnetic figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This must have been a white woman thing. I'm 50 and Black and I do not remember this book. Is it just me?

There were a bunch of Prozac based books that came out at once. Nation became a movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP who went to law school with her. To be clear, Elizabeth was never particularly interested in studying the law (she got a 152 or something like that on the LSAT) - but no one at my school doubted she was extremely talented. And she wasn’t a vanity hire - David Boies was a fan of hers, from what I heard. That said, she was never going to be a partner at BSF or any other big law firm. My classmates are all very sad, she was an incredibly charismatic and magnetic figure.

https://abovethelaw.com/2012/08/elizabeth-wurtzel-bids-bye-bye-to-boies-schiller/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This must have been a white woman thing. I'm 50 and Black and I do not remember this book. Is it just me?

Yep. Just you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This must have been a white woman thing. I'm 50 and Black and I do not remember this book. Is it just me?

Yep. Just you.

Are you black? Seriously? I do not remember this phenomena. I vaguely remember the book but I don’t remember it being such a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This must have been a white woman thing. I'm 50 and Black and I do not remember this book. Is it just me?

Yep. Just you.

Are you black? Seriously? I do not remember this phenomena. I vaguely remember the book but I don’t remember it being such a big deal.

Well, I'm a well-educated 50 yo white woman who never read this book or heard of her. I'm sorry for her death and her family and friends. Maybe I'm just not into navel-gazing stuff.

[Anonymous]

Very sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This must have been a white woman thing. I'm 50 and Black and I do not remember this book. Is it just me?

It's fine that you don't remember the book or that the topic didn't interest you. But you don't have to denigrate it as a "white woman thing." Think about what you are doing. Is anything that simply didn't cross your radar written off now as a petty bourgeois exercise in racism? Croatia? Must have been a white woman thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP who went to law school with her. To be clear, Elizabeth was never particularly interested in studying the law (she got a 152 or something like that on the LSAT) - but no one at my school doubted she was extremely talented. And she wasn’t a vanity hire - David Boies was a fan of hers, from what I heard. That said, she was never going to be a partner at BSF or any other big law firm. My classmates are all very sad, she was an incredibly charismatic and magnetic figure.

That’s what a “vanity hire” at a law firm is so glad you could clear it up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This must have been a white woman thing. I'm 50 and Black and I do not remember this book. Is it just me?

It's fine that you don't remember the book or that the topic didn't interest you. But you don't have to denigrate it as a "white woman thing." Think about what you are doing. Is anything that simply didn't cross your radar written off now as a petty bourgeois exercise in racism? Croatia? Must have been a white woman thing.

+1000
I’m almost 52, white, and hadn’t heard of her. Please stop dividing EVERYTHING up along racial lines.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This must have been a white woman thing. I'm 50 and Black and I do not remember this book. Is it just me?

It's fine that you don't remember the book or that the topic didn't interest you. But you don't have to denigrate it as a "white woman thing." Think about what you are doing. Is anything that simply didn't cross your radar written off now as a petty bourgeois exercise in racism? Croatia? Must have been a white woman thing.

Oh my God. Get over yourself. You are projecting. No one is denigrating anything. There are definitely cultural differences. There are definitely some things that are white women things. If you don’t know that then you have not been paying attention for a very long time. That’s not good or bad, it’s just a thing. I am sure that I can mention some things that are very prominent in the black women’s community that you would have no clue about. That’s not good or bad, it’s just a thing. Clearly, the book may or may not have been interesting to me. I just didn’t realize that it was such a big deal. You are the epitome of being too PC. Some things have nothing to do with racism. There are cultural differences between black people and white people. For instance, have you ever been to a black Thanksgiving? It’s very different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This must have been a white woman thing. I'm 50 and Black and I do not remember this book. Is it just me?

It's fine that you don't remember the book or that the topic didn't interest you. But you don't have to denigrate it as a "white woman thing." Think about what you are doing. Is anything that simply didn't cross your radar written off now as a petty bourgeois exercise in racism? Croatia? Must have been a white woman thing.

+1000
I’m almost 52, white, and hadn’t heard of her. Please stop dividing EVERYTHING up along racial lines.

In this context, it’s racial and cultural. That’s not a bad thing. It just is. Jesus.