Comments on: Tavi Rorschach Test

By: penis enlargement pills

penis enlargement pills — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:45:53 +0000

you know what it is!! black and yellow, haha just kidding but this is a really good blog. Keep up the nice writing. I was quite impressed!

By: Alana

Alana — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:13:59 +0000

Nothing in her writing opens up a new thought pattern.
If we were all as ironic as her i’m sure she would lose interest in that style fast. Or maybe she would simply compete to be most ironic by wearing a 20 foot tall pair of bunny ears.
Her pictures are tolerable, her writing is stale.

By: petra

petra — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:58:29 +0000

There are children in our world blessed with a remarkable talent.
Tavi does have a talent. She is a very smart young copycat.
It will take a long time before she has developed her own style.
The international well known fashion designers are craving for attention. And she is part of that craving…
Thank you for you interesting view on Tavi……
(again we are talking about her; and that is exactly what she wants…)

By: inj

inj — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:31:02 +0000

lol damaia well said.

By: inj

inj — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:30:01 +0000

i don’t get the idea of feminism really….all i can say is i can support girls being who they are for themselves and nothing else. but if you like fashion….for something other than impressing others, then…..arent the miu miu shoes part of feminism?

By: Dru

Dru — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:25:49 +0000

Felicity- A lot of people did think she was some kind of blogging version of JT Leroy at first, but she’s never sounded anything but, well, her age.

Rob K- why would anyone judge you for reading a magazine with Cher on the cover? Cher is awesome. Also, an AOL ad? People can change their minds, but you’re right- she is turning herself into a brand, though it seems she is smart enough to know the difference between herself and it.

By: Rob K.

Rob K. — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:20:40 +0000

I liked her, but then I was reading the Vanity Fair with Cher on the cover (no judgements, please) and Tavi was in a giant 10 page ad for AOL! What the FUCK. I can sort of understand shilling for designers and whatnot, but AOL? Her Oprah comments read as sort of disingenuous when she is in a fucking America Online print ad. I think your comments are pretty perceptive — at this point she’s a brand. Yeah, there’s a teenager behind it, but the brand is what you get. It’s creepy.

By: Felicity

Felicity — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:36:14 +0000

I enjoyed reading your thoughts here and I love your “cream cheese”analogy. I don’t like her either, but I can’t quite pin point exactly why. Part of it is that I get a really fake, manufactured vibe from her. She reminds me of Lonely Girl of youtube. She had a really popular video channel, then it was revealed that all of her videos were written and produced by Hollywood people.

By: Isabel

Isabel — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:42:12 +0000

I honestly love Tavi & her blog. We share a similar aesthetic taste, plus she’s really funny. Of course, you’re not entitled to care but I would like to defend her. Especially the point you made about “she’s too young to reference herself.” She’s not referencing herself by wear the same hat twice! It just matched the pink of the pony logo really well, is pretty much it.

Anyways, love your refreshing perspective as always but I had to pipe up.

By: Jaimi

Jaimi — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:56:44 +0000

I don’t dislike her. I like bright kids. But I do find it strange how nostalgic she is for stuff that was around when she was literally still in diapers Daria was a show I grew up with and the fact that she is basically my cartoon double was nice. Someone I could relate to! Of course, it was just a tv show. It’s strange how people cling to pop cultural references, like it really matters and really defines their identities. Tavi is 14 though. It’s rather discomfiting when 20 somethings continue to rave about how “Sassy changed my life!” How dull really. So what if they featured Ian Svenonious as a Cute Guy of the Month! It was probably ironically funny to him, but I wonder how many girls actually went out and listened to Nation of Ulysses after that.

Sassy magazine was always kind of wanky, I thought, having been exposed to it a few years after it folded and receiving a subscription to Jane Magazine. Or at least that’s what I gleaned from Ghost World.

But I feel like this generation is pretty nostalgic in general (I’m probably in the same generation as Tavi, being 9 years older than her). There’s this general apathy, ennui, and constant self-awareness imposed by things like Facebook and adults on the internet constantly whining about the good ol’ days. I think people are aware how bland a lot of the music and general cultural offerings right now are, but don’t seem to have any idea how to change that, and thus continue reblogging the same old 1960s photographs of pretty hippies, professing their love for Riot Grrl music, and Sassy Magazine. As if things we like define us rather than what we do.