Wherein A Native Park Sloper Takes Down A Park Slope Interloper
I kinda liked Amy Sohn only because she kinda irritated my Park Slope wife and her friends with her “books.” Of course I ignored the fact that she writes navel gazing, oh woe is me rich chick, entitled “literature.” #meh
Now with some distance, she and the entitled class, money, and attitude she portrays in her books are part of what helped drive us away from Brooklyn in real life.
All that said, leave it to a native Park Sloper Jake Dobkin to take her down by calling her bluff…and Amy slinking away with “no comment”…
#ParodyOfWhitePeopleProblems Heh. #classic
Be sure to read the backstory at the bottom of the interview.
via native Park Sloper and my wonderful bro-in-law John D’Aponte
Jake Dobkin: I read your Awl piece. My first reaction was that some of the stuff you described, like doing “body shots”, partying with your mommy friends till 3 a.m., and blowing guys you aren’t married to, didn’t really happen, or only happened once- like you’re making it up just to troll internet commenters, or you imagined it, like in Fight Club, where the other mommys in your “Hookers, Sluts, and Drug Addicts” club are really just in your head and you’re actually sitting at home alone with one glass of wine most nights. That’s true, right?
Amy Sohn: [No Response]
Dobkin: My second reaction was that having three gin and tonics on Smith Street isn’t exactly wild rebellion or even “behaving like a bunch of twentysomething hipsters”. Is it possible that you’re just pretty normal 40-somethings and that’s terrifying, so you’re enlarging your exploits to make them seem sleazier and wilder than they are?Sohn: [No Response]
Dobkin: My third reaction was that I’d like to know which of these following behaviors you describe you’re regularly engaging in and why: “But we’re masturbating excessively, cheating on good people, doing coke in newly price-inflated townhouses, and sexting compulsively—though rarely with our partners.” How much masturbation is “excessive”? Do people really still do coke, in Brooklyn? Give me an example of a “sext” that you’ve recently sent or received.
Sohn: [No Response]
Dobkin:My fourth reaction, is that the issues you and your friends have, of Park Slope “boredom” which “turns to terror” when your kids hit PS321, seems like a parody of White People Problems. Like if your biggest challenges are too much time on your hands and real estate envy, maybe volunteer or get another job or something? People are dying in Syria! Is this a legitimate reaction?
Sohn: [No Response]
Dobkin: Can I suggest that maybe you’re just hanging out with the wrong group of people? I mean, if everyone around you is throwing back Xanax and raw-dogging it just to FEEL SOMETHING and then having unplanned kids because they’re too stupid to use birth control, is it possible it’s not Park Slope’s fault, and rather, it might be hanging around with really immature people?Sohn: [No Response]
