{"id":1196,"date":"2011-12-29T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.transversalmedia.eu\/the-statement-nobody-cares-about-i-like-adrien\/"},"modified":"2011-12-29T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T14:20:00","slug":"the-statement-nobody-cares-about-i-like-adrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/the-statement-nobody-cares-about-i-like-adrien\/","title":{"rendered":"The statement nobody cares about: I like Adrien Brody"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not the actor (though I grant you that he is pleasing on the eyes), but the latest lit blow up\/ Gawker style \u201cscandal\u201d<\/a> to come out of New York city, the confessional piece of writing known as \u201cAdrien Brody\u201d<\/a> (the pseudonym the young woman in question chose for her much older lover\/ writer friend once he was outed).<\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s the thing: I do not particularly like the style of writing. I would dare say I don\u2019t even particularly care about it. However, I am appalled by the snark and wall of condemnation<\/a> thrown at this young woman because she wrote this piece. Probably the reason I have a fondness for it is because I *was* once Marie Calloway (saving cultural and situational differences). I too had a penchant for much older sort of famous writers that I wanted to impress (but above all, fuck). I didn\u2019t want them to love me or date me or introduce me to their parents. Oh no. I wanted to fuck their brains out because somewhat, I used to believe that it was a way to apprehend part of the talent, part of the intellect that dazzled me, a piece of the mind I so wanted to possess. Yes, I look back and sort of cringe, but yet I don\u2019t. At least not completely. I don\u2019t condemn 21 year old me for having these absurd notions of apprehending subjectivity through sex. Those topics remained a constant throughout my life. They became the center of all fiction I wrote (which was a vaguely disguised autobiographical exploration of fucking and possessing more than someone\u2019s body but somewhat having access to their mind, if only for a fleeting second). I stopped writing fiction and theater plays for the most part (except some stuff that I don\u2019t intend to publish) but I don\u2019t regret those early explorations. I would probably be mortified if someone took the texts I wrote back then and used them as an example of the \u201cfailures of feminism\u201d, which is what is happening with this young woman.<\/p>\n

Now, there was one specific paragraph in her piece that made me laugh out loud. It was when she asks this writer friend about a conference he gave in Amsterdam and his answer was:<\/p>\n

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“Some people knew the blog but I feel like they don’t take it seriously because of where it’s published. And they didn’t take me seriously because I don’t have a PhD in sociology or philosophy. But it’s like, I’m smarter than these people. The only difference between me and them is that they’re teaching…”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Like Marie, I also had a tendency to get involved with guys who had themselves on a higher esteem than regular folks had for them. Again, that\u2019s part of the deal when you are 21, not that you are gullible (looking back, I know I wasn\u2019t; if anything, I didn\u2019t take any of my shenanigans too seriously even if, like Marie, I would also cry a bit over a broken heart). But going back to the dude now known as Adrien Brody: the reason people in Amsterdam didn\u2019t take him seriously is because we have no idea what the \u201cNew York scene\u201d is all about. The few of us who have a remote and vague idea about what constitutes this \u201cscene\u201d follow it intermittently with a mixture of dread and curiosity, but not the kind of envious curiosity this guy probably has in mind. Oh no, the few people who are semi aware of this literary\/ blogging\/ cultural phenomenon going on in New York are actually perplexed by it. An ocean between us can do that. Speaking only for myself, a lot of it comes across as endogamic, a bit mean spirited and not very interesting (unless you actually live there, I suppose).<\/p>\n

Here’s another kick to the story: the guy in question had (has?) a girlfriend at the time. Who found out about his cheating through a column written at The Hairpin<\/a>. Still, a great number of people point fingers at the young woman, calling her “a famewhore”. Little is said of the guy’s behavior. \u00a0(Really, ponder that for a second, your girlfriend finds out you cheated on her by reading The Hairpin!).<\/p>\n

As a former (and not repentant) Marie Calloway, I am dismayed that a young woman writing about sex is still scandal worthy. And that even in this day and age, a first person account (which she didn\u2019t intend as anything except that) is being analyzed as a \u201cbetrayal to feminism\u201d (she does mention in several paragraphs that she is a feminist). If anything, we should perhaps take a step back and wonder why a young woman writing about a sexual encounter is still worthy of such vitriol, whereas, as Kate Zambreno mentions here<\/a>, and TheRejectionist mentioned on Twitter<\/a>, a dude doing exactly the same thing gets praises on The New Yorker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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