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Elizabeth Wurtzel

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The Resume

    (September 21, 1967-January 7, 2020)
    Wrote 'Bitch,' 'Prozac Nation,' 'Radical Sanity' and 'More, Now, Again'
    Lives two blocks from the World Trade Center

Why she might be annoying:

    She was a former rock critic.
    She wrote two autobiographies before age 35.
    She was fired by the Dallas Morning News for plagiarism.
    Talk about insecurity, she is known to call boyfriends, 20 or more times a day 'to check that they still love her.'
    She is a self-described feminist.
    She is a self-described manic depressive who was first in line for Prozac when it was introduced.
    She admits to be an abuser of numerous drugs and alcohol.
    Her first overdose was at 12.
    She was a teen-aged self-mutilator, using razor blades and knives.
    She smokes.
    She is suicidal.
    She threatened in her autobiography, 'Bitch,' to 'confess intimate details of my life to complete strangers.'
    She carries out that threat in many things that she writes.
    She has a Skull & 'FTW' tattoo on her back.
    She has a navel and nose piercing.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She admires suicidal women of literature (Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath).
    She graduated Harvard.
    She posed topless with an upraised middle finger on the hardcover edition of 'Bitch.'
    She survived painful PhotoShop nipple-ectomy on the aforementioned cover.
    She had sex on a desk while working at 'The New Yorker.'
    She described Britney Spears as 'all tits and ass' whose music is 'damn near unlistenable.'

Credit: Rcade


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 18 Votes: 61.11% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 23 Votes: 47.83% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 29 Votes: 17.24% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 33 Votes: 57.58% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 29 Votes: 62.07% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 20 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 81 Votes: 65.43% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 103 Votes: 74.76% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 36 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 108 Votes: 64.81% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 164 Votes: 59.76% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 238 Votes: 51.26% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 422 Votes: 51.42% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 790 Votes: 56.84% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 2930 Votes: 60.20% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 4421 Votes: 32.10% Annoying