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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gilbert is a shallow, self-indulgent, and arrogant woman. This person is not going on a journey of self-discovery, whatever the f@ck that is. This person is abandoning her life. Instead of confronting her problems, instead of working through them, or processing whatever it is that makes her so inexplicably unhappy, she abandons them. And she abandons a husband who — at least as he’s characterized in the movie — is loving, charming, and more than adequate because she needs some more goddamn “me time.”

Don’t we all, sister? Get the f@ck over it.  And for what? So she can find herself? Or so she can find a better man? It’s hard to tell because this woman is as shallow, self-indulgent and arrogant at the end of her memoir as she is in the beginning.

I don’t like these kind of people. The Oprah types, who have to tell you how great they are in order to convince you. That’s all that Eat, Pray, Love boils down to: A woman trying to convince you of how great she is so that maybe you’ll take a similar journey — literal or metaphorical — in which you try to convince everyone of how great you are. There’s a scene in Eat, Pray, Love that’s typical of this white, bourgeois bullshit, where Elizabeth sends an email to all of her American friends to guilt them into sending a poor family some money to buy a house as a birthday present to her. Noble? Perhaps, if it weren’t so motherf@cking transparent that the gesture is less about helping out this family than it is about celebrating her goddamn selflessness. I know people like this — I suspect most of you know people like this. People who manage to work their good deeds into virtually every conversation, the same way that gym obsessed person will work his morning work-out routine into all of his conversations. Like we’re the goddamn beneficiaries of their good health.

The whole thing is an embarrassment to women.

I know many women like this in real life and they are all over this board. “Woes me. I’m so bored with my husband who works all day to support my lazy @ss. He doesn’t do enough around the house while I don’t even help contribute to the household income.  I am so evolved and worldly.  I deserve an affair or a year to go find myself.”  They live in their own heads with zero sense of reality or personal responsibility.

Are you the ex husband?  Otherwise, you need a new hobby.  Spending way too much energy on a stranger![/quote]

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