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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what The Atlantic says about BAF by the way:

It was funny—in the “weird” sense—that The Closer landed on Netflix the same week a New York Times story headlined “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” went viral. That article told the story of a writer who altruistically donated her kidney to a stranger, and of the Facebook friend who plundered the experience for her fiction. Switching perspectives and told out of chronological order, “Bad Art Friend” was deliberately written to deny the reader an obvious victim and villain. Some commentators nevertheless found it easy to assign blame: Dawn Dorland is a white woman, and Sonya Larson a mixed-race one, so Dorland was crying white tears and Larson had a genuine grievance. Dorland’s kidney donation was needy, entitled, and cringeworthy—as white women tend to be, according to the stereotype—and she probably tried to sabotage Larson’s career. “Some white women have way too much free time,” the writer Roxane Gay declared. Case closed.

Except there are other ways to frame the power dynamics involved: Dorland the unsuccessful writer versus Larson the published author. Dorland the earnest but irritating do-gooder versus Larson the Facebook lurker who mocked her “friend” with the cool kids from her writing clique. In some versions of the matchup, both women look bad: Dorland the control freak, intent on revenge, versus Larson the alleged plagiarist, who ineptly covered her tracks. Notably, the story never answers the question posed in its title. It was a Rorschach test.[/quote]

I'm sorry, but I think that is a flatly ridiculous take meant to excuse bad journalism.[/quote]

The fact that they are even entertaining the narrative that Dorland did something wrong by donating her kidney is just ... wow.

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+1. These people come across as so sheltered, so privileged, so deeply unaware. I'm assuming they or any of their loved ones have ever been in critical medical need. Perhaps the greatest privilege of all.[/quote]

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