When Lesley appeared in the tabloids next to Chloe, some of you asked, “What does she do?” implying she’s a trust fund kid. This is what she does. By the way, what is with this trust fund myth?
When Lesley appeared in the tabloids next to Chloe, some of you asked, “What does she do?” implying she’s a trust fund kid. This is what she does. By the way, what is with this trust fund myth? The only time I’ve ever seen those kind of kids is on the Upper East Side and they’re always going to LA for a few months on some yoga retreat, then off to Costa Rica to “work” on a butterfly farm. They dress like their mothers and hang out in Monaco. They don’t go to the Green Point Tavern and wear American Apparel. Do you know how much it costs to set up a trust fund? You’d need MILLIONS of extra dollars. You buy your house in Westchester for 1.5m and your apartment in Manhattan is 2m. Then you need to set aside another 2m so your 3 kids can go to school. Then there’s, what, 5m for retirement? On top of that you have an extra 10m just sitting there? That’s fucking 20 million bucks! You’re talking about the elite, elite of the richest people in America. Their kids are simply not around. Stop talking about them all the time.
Defensive much? I thought this was obviously to most people who weren’t morons, but I think when people use the term trust fund to describe hipstards, they’re merely saying that the people in question are not financially independent and receive monthly allowances of sorts from their parents, whether it be in spending money or rent fees.
Can I talk about how horrible a pose that is? She looks like a frog with a malformed right arm.
i have a question does anyone really care what this bitch does? either way she seems like self absorbed bore
i guess i just don’t get it. comparing an “ask blognigger” post with an “ask barf” post is like comparing Joy Division to Fall Out Boy.
she’s ur buddy though, and this is a free site, so, to use a barfin style phrasing…
watevs…
I know several trust fund kids that live in Greenpoint.
You make it sound like trust fund kids invariably have gazillions of dollars at their immediate disposal to afford them a life of international jetsetting. The ones I know get a (relatively) small amount of money each month – enough to pay their bills and live on the semi-cheap (without actually ever having to get a job.) It’s like an adult version of an allowance, only instead of going toward candy and baseball cards they blow it on beer and blow. (And then complain about how they’re ‘sooooo broke.’)
actually, my trust fund was set up by my great-grandfather, you poor bastards.
when did this blog turn into a defense of rich people?
Doth protesting too much, or some shit.
I think you may have reaffirmed the criticisms of little Lesley here. But I do appreciate the defense of the under $20,000,000 set. A monthly check that demeans the average American salary is not a trust fund. And you’re right; American Apparel is definitely a blue-collar staple.
Did you read her book? She basically did nothing and got her parents to pay for her apartment in Manhattan. that’s a lot of fucking money, enough money to pay rent, bills and food and still maintain a drug habit, that’s a lot of fucking money.
When people use the term “trust fund”, they just mean, “some kid who’s never worked a day in their life that gets money from a relative to live for free”, which may not be what Lesley is now, but certainly is what she was in the book.
And we all hate because we’re jealous, yes, of COURSE all of us want to live in Manhattan for free and not have a job and still have money to go to clubs and parties and do shitloads of drugs all the time.
If you don’t want people talking shit about you being a rich kid, then don’t write a fucking book about being a rich kid.
This is a heroin overdose of protesting too much.
You bit my tag. Give it back.
You know what, forget it, you can have it. It’s just that it took me like 4 minutes to think that up, and you, you snarly little biting bitch, just went ahead and plundered it. Goddamn is it so hard just to come up with something on your own?
SO kids of parents with $5 million don’t get help from mommy or daddy? Or have a nice cushion when in need?
I wish Jim Goad would post here more often. That’s one funny ass hillbilly.
trust fund kids suck because:
a) i have to work
b) they give hollow advice like “take it easy” or “go with the flow and things will come to you”
Fuck them
ummm, this comment form automatically gives you names. I got “internet hate’. It was automatic.
But I’m taking it now, bitch! Hhahahahahahahahhahaha!
sincerely,
Internet Hate
xoxo
lesley is hot and getting more attention than you. you are jealous. end ‘o story.
I think that there’s some real anti-semitism going on around here. If we lived in Germany it would probably be illegal for you Nazis to criticize this very talented young woman. Thankfully, we have the Southern Poverty Law Center to keep things like this from getting out of hand in America. Lesley Arfin is basically the new Anne Frank. A civil rights hero for the ages. You go girl.
Not that she knows me or gives a shit what I think, but for some reason I feel compelled to come to Leslie Arfin’s defense. I’d like to point out a few things about the subject of this post.
1- She kicked drug addiction. Try it sometimes — it’s fucking hard
2- She is sexy
3- She earns money as a writer (again, whether or not she gets some help from her family, earning money as a writer is definitely an accomplishment)
that dude is soo hott!
“If you don’t want people talking shit about you being a rich kid, then don’t write a fucking book about being a rich kid.”
Maybe they don’t know they’re rich. That’s the thing about wealth — no matter how rich you become you inevitably become accustomed to it, it just becomes “normal”. I don’t remember the specifics but there was a survey widely quoted in the press here in the UK that asked people earning over £100k a year if they considered themselves well off and the majority of them said no. Can you fucking believe that?
Bottom-line: We shouldn’t give a shit.
Though, we should cross our fingers that the pervasive apathy found amongst the prosperously unemployed transforms into something remotely beneficial. Like good fashion taste and an unpolished knack for journalism.
Yes, it’s an absolute myth that some people don’t have to work their fucking balls off the minute they get out of high school.
It’s also a myth that a huge quotient of Hipster Nation receives rent money and other essential items from their parents.
It is also an entirely fictitious notion that being spoiled and whining about your Seinfeld-level “problems” could ever possibly seem empty and annoying to those who come from the other side of the tracks.
But this is NOT a myth: Everyone owns a house in Costa Rica.
I love Lesley.
Is that a Casio obscuring her camel toe? Come on guys. Rich people don’t wear Casios. Lesley can feel free to put my name down as a reference when applying for her Wobblie card. Those callouses on her hands don’t come from picking daisies.
Do you know how many callouses I have on my pussy from trying to make ends meet? That’s some rough ass shit.
“She earns money as a writer (again, whether or not she gets some help from her family, earning money as a writer is definitely an accomplishment).”
Hilarious.
Look, getting paid for writing is not hard, especially for all the children of landed gentry that fill up the overprices apartments of this nation’s cities. Plenty of fucking idiots do it all the time. What is an accomplishment is *make a living* from your writing. Which this Arfin chick apparently can, though you gotta wonder what the going rate for being the EIC of a very middling 110K-circulation magazine is. Hey, maybe Gavin knows.
About trust fund kids: the way the magazine industry is set up now, you almost *have* to be from a decently well-off family to make it in. Unless you’re lucky enough to snag a decent-paying internship (there are about six of them left — act now!), you have to move to NYC or another large city, work for free, hope to kiss ass enough to gain the privilege to pitch $500 FOB items after you leave, and pray that somehow it works out. That takes money, and for a 22-year-old wanna-be journo, that means asking Mom and Dad. Or you could blow strangers off the Internet for money. Either way.
It’s been that way for a while. Time to find a new source of outrage. Are we still pissed off about fixies? How about noise rock? Looks like we still can’t stand American Apparel (like your new hoodie, BTW, where’d you get it? Oh…)
Lemme know, I’m not very good at loving, but I’m fucking awesome at hating.
Jim, great points. Not defending the rich kid whining, but there’s plenty of people from 3rd world shit holes that would consider being born on the other side of the tracks in America as being born into fucking nobility. Someone’s always going to have more credibility than you in the whine factor. Seriously though, gangster rappers should STFU.
‘It’s not that I want to have what she has. I just don’t want her to have it.’ – some hater.
Rich kids become paid magazine writers not because they’re especially talented or have any unique ideas to pen, but because they have the free time and parental dole that allow them to take years-long, unpaid internships at magazines and publishing houses. Parental contacts more often than not get them those internships.
Not that some of them don’t work hard at those internships, I’m sure they do, but because they can afford to hang in there sans pay, they have the luxury to wait around for opportunity to strike. When it does, they snap up the paying gigs, which they don’t even need, anyway. Their success is not about talent, it’s about proximity: “Brie’s been here a while. Give her a shot at the Marc Jacobs piece.”
Plus, rich kids have been socialized by their wealthy upbringings to move easily in that world, which is populated by their kind. They slide right into place without having to struggle to decode the language and social graces of the elite. And with social climbing hardwired into their skill-set, their ascent is assured.
Naturally, I agree with Jimmy G.
We’re all pampered faggots compared to those living in the ten or so African countries where the average life expectancy barely cracks 40.
And, yes, you never see gangsta rappers moving to Swaziland.
These are facts, Jack, not myths.
Hmmmm…Interesting points Scrotum McDee, especially the last paragraph. I was raised in poverty in Youngstown, Ohio, one of America’s most infamous wrong side of the tracks shitholes. My mother was a washer woman and my father a bootblack. As a child, I was fortunately taken under wing by a rich old lady who caught me stealing bread crumbs from pigeons. She taught me everything I needed to lead a productive life and even paid my tuition at Carnegie Mellon, but I did notice that full knowledge of the coded language and social graces of which you speak remained deliberately far from my grasp, thus assuring that my low class snatch would never be able to phony its way into the rarified gene pool of elite money.
Personally, I dream of the revolution and the time honored ritual of lining these rich motherfuckers up against a wall for you know what. Maybe my dreams are all I have, but they’re MY dreams goddammit, and no one can take them away from me. I’m allowed to dream, right?
Congrats Lesley. Must be fun working for a chick mag! Make it Sassy-esque pleeze!
my parents pay my rent and paid for my yoga retreat to costa rica ( which totally sucked, that six weeks in france they paid for the year before was way funner) but i still hate barfin cuz she’s not funny and she gives shitty advice and she always looks kinda dirty.
Jim Goad,
I’d opt to fish a malt ball from a hobo’s asshole before I’d subject myself to the gratuitous financial groans dished out by a well-to-do American. But I’m compelled to appreciate how these narrow sighted sensibilities benefit a free market. We can’t go off sinking our standards in effort to globalize. Africa Smafrica.
If you try to get righteously indignant about the fact she’s lived a privileged life that’s completely out of touch, you get reminded that technically we’re all rich here in the west compared to the rest of the world, relatively speaking.
and even if it’s as simple as you honestly couldn’t give a fuck about the cosseted life of yet another boring, penny-a-dozen hipster socialite, its coz you’re JELLUS.
JELLUS.
I ate it with a spoon either because I’m a schnook or because I like Barf.
Don’t forget some rich kids go through that whole ”slumming” phase, where they dress like/fuck poor people, to piss of their family.
But really, Leslie needs a cheeseburger and milkshake,stat!
if you were only wearing mephistos….the things i would do to you.
More facts:
1. Arfin is gross (see pics of her on the beach)
2. Arfin is a boring writer (i.e. she read “Go Ask Alice” and decided to shoot junk instead of get raped by her dad)
3. Gavin is funny
4. I am bored
The post is correct. “Trust fund kid” is a boring cliche, on the level of “I hate hipsters, with their tight pants and their white belts!” If you’re going to criticize someone, you should point out something lame about them in a way that legitimately makes sense, not rely on a 5th-generation stereotype.
just because she use to do junk and be a punk doesn’t make her any different then any soccer mom, look at what she says she into right now. ’m not into like Electroclash and boom boxes….
……. the Dixie Chicks (“Oh my gosh, they’re so talented!”), Teen Vogue, Gossip Girl, VH1’s Celebrity Rehab……………………”
that aside, even if she was funny/ hot/ interesting etc. Why do any of you care about her socioeconomic status she grew up in.
So if she grew up poor, her writing would be better and you would appreciate her advice more??
And this is not a vain attempt at defending the rich, I just understanding why any of you give a fuck.
*Don’t Understand
Just because you don’t have a trust fund doesn’t mean you aren’t a spoiled bitch who doesn’t do shit but get money from your parents.
p.s I have no idea who this broad is and I don’t mean to imply that the above comment applies to her.
Okay Emily H., how’s about this? I hate trust fund kids because their writing/art mirrors the lack of urgency, passion, and downright fear that their inherited comfort irrevocably works against. Give me Dostoevsky sitting on a cold, piss and shit addled prison floor while waiting to be executed/rendered lidless over any of these fake ass human beings any day, any time, anywhere…Call me weird, but that’s how I like to roll.
Regarding Lesley, I’ve never read her book and will reserve judgment on her until I can afford a copy on my paltry chimney sweep salary. She doesn’t give enough of herself on the internet to render a legit verdict right now. I must admit that I’d gladly fuck her and totally enjoy it, but we don’t want to objectify her, do we?
Wow. You all sound like a bunch of jealous assholes. Who cares where her money comes from! She’s awesome, and that’s all that matters.
i like this website, i dont really mind arfin or the fact that she doesnt really do anything that great, i dont mind that theres rich people – thats ok with me, in fact i like rich people because i like some people to have some money even if i dont.
i dispute the fact that arfin ever had a real heroin situation, & HATE the fact that she’s attempting to lever such a gross exaggeration into credibillity.
other than that i think shes ok and wish her the best of who gives a fuck.
Since when did it okay to be a graduate of Hampshire College?
become okay
Tracy Egan > Lesley Arfin
Are you kidding me with this post??? Unless money only appears in her bank account after WORKING for it, she is what us working class refer to as a “trust fund kid”. Don’t try and blur the lines with semantics. Spoiled little brat. I’d like to know who paid for her trip with her Chloe friend… Did you put in some extra hours at work? Did you put a little extra money away a month and hold back on going out a few nights a week? Did you have to buy your groceries on the cheap for a little while? Was there any sacrifice?? Is there ever a sacrifice?? Tell me you put in on a credit card and you’re racking up a shit load of debt… it would almost make me feel better.
I had to go into debt to get an education and a job and I’m still paying it off… FUCK YOU!
Trust funders deserve to be called out because they’re humans who do nothing but squander the enormous freedom that comes with being rich. They could be doing something tremendous right now, but instead they’re coming on this website and saying how awesome their friend is.
And I am not trying to shit on this girl either; for all I know she’s a perfectly lovely person.
I believe this thread is the result of hard economic times. You wanna be rich and have everybody love you for it? Fuck you. I got bills to pay. You wanna get a cute little job editing? Fuck you. I just got laid off. You wanna go to India and get your shit together for a while? Fuck you. I can’t afford gas to get to the grocery store…and on and on…I’m not saying I’m in any of those predicaments. My trust fund keeps me rollin’ in the good times (helllllz yeah), but my hand is at least on the pulse of the working classes enough to know what they’re thinking and going through. And poor Vane$$a. I wish I could give her a bowl of soup or something. Hang in tight baby cakes. Everything’s gonna be all right.
this is a fuckin good discussion i gotta say.
i would like to propose a new criteria that if your gonna be called ‘awesome’ you have to actually DO something awesome.
so all the people on here saying she’s awesome, please explain.
ie: like the dude said above:
Dostoevsky = Awesome
Missbehave = Not Awesome
im not sure how you’re going to argue that thats not the case, but i’d like to see you try.
Jaguido Franklin…
In all honesty, I am so curious as to how you get your money. Is there an endless bank account that your parents intermittently fill or arranged to have filled? Do you call them up when you run out??How do your parents feel about supporting an adult child? How does it work?
I just want to know how she lost so much weight.
Really.
Barf is cool, pretty, funny.
i also think that if she’s not as good as Dostoevsky she should kill herself and everyone around her, and that we all should kill ourselves, and that everything sucks and if you dont win at least a pulitzer for something then you are a fucking piece of human shit.
also im probably one of the greatest human beings in the world, im better than everyone else, and Lesley Arfin ISNT.
because she’s not like ME.
there, i think we’ve covered just about everything.
i myself come from extreme wealth and spend my days writing poems whilst my maid sticks a lubed finger up my ass. i come here to laugh.
Lesley’s financial situation is gross, because she is not poor and is a total princess, yet she dresses like a broke student. The Casio, the hiking boots, the nasty acrylic fur. It’s really fake and its cluelessness borders on vulgarity. Stop pretending, Lesley. We know you want the Chanel. There’s nothing wrong with needing help from your parents sometimes, but acting offended when called a trust fund kid just makes you look like an asshole!
i like her style, she looks like my little sister. skinnier though, but you know, ‘not from the city and does not care’ style. sexy.
dude looks like a nice lady that i would probably want to get blackout drunk w/ and probably marry. lots of people get money from their folks. only ones who dont get pist about it. i think its all the people who get $$ from mom and dont spread the wealth that fuck it up for the rest. you didnt care when i was sharing my 10 bottles of booze w/ yer retarded friends last weekend.
# Dirk Funk Says:
12.03.08 at 1:39 pm
when did this blog turn into a defense of rich people?
– That’s not what this blog’s about, you silly goose.
nice boots
I am just so happy our little Leslie got a job
poor people smell like balogne
could you all learn the difference between jealousy and envy, please?
So Far Removed-
I have two credit cards that are good anywhere. I was once told their monthly limit, but live a relatively low maintenance lifestyle and am always way under. I can’t even remember what the limit is. My parents are supported by the same fund that I’m supported by. It all started when great great grandpop invented something or other that made a lot of money. Most people have no clue that I’m rich. I never went to Yale and joined Skull and Bones or any shit like that. I’m just another shmo on the bus and I like it that way. When a friend really needs money, I’ll make sure they get it somehow without knowing its origins. Otherwise, I try not to interfere in people’s destinies. Thanks for asking.
# Samuel Says:
12.04.08 at 11:54 am
poor people smell like balogne
– Rich people can’t spell.
Guys on here constantly whine about how all they want is a cool chick who can hang with your bros, drink cheap beer and have a trivial pursuit game of unheard of awesome music,,, seems like Lesley fits the bill. She’s no Gisele but you know when you’re doing her doggystyle she persistently asks if she looks “fat” in this angle. Tards.
I liked Dear Diary, but I have to point out that being profiled in the Observer is not necessarily a good thing. They’re actually making fun of most of their profile subjects.
there once was a time when we never talked about money. let’s go back to those times. money is a ghost that we’ve let rule the world.
In punk/hipster circles there are always the cool snobby kids, sometimes straight edge or way too into junk, but they are the cool kids because they can afford the skinny jeans and books and cameras and trips to europe. they can also afford college and so on, and with the skinny jeans and unique hip/rich person music taste they get the internships and cool jobs.
if lesley arfin wasent just another rich person she’d be writing for Hit Parader.
lesley arfin a bore?
fuck that noise!
barfin arfin rulz.
sick hiking boots