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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know why so much of the cultural well is this polluted. Why does a prestige organization like the NYT, and not just this instance or only this publication, platform misfits all the time? The socially maladapted, the bizarre, the circus freaks are presented as if they are aspirational, inspirational, and genteel.

This poor woman’s whole story is painful and evocative of pity. The polite thing to do would be to look away, not parade her around. The circus is cruel but at least it never presented itself as something better than it is.[/quote]

She's a 44-year-old writer with multiple essay collections, including one that got turned into a Netflix show. This is what she does for a living. Publishing a personal essay is not an endorsement of the perspective being presented. [/quote]
Her being 44 and also having a Netflix show based on essays based on her life makes this all even more embarassing!!!

Hopefully it’s all just clickbait to pay the bills and she actually lives a happy, high self-esteemed life in private. Which would still make it gross to platform this kind of dysfunction, but at least she wouldn’t seem so personally tragic.[/quote]

She's been making bad choices and writing about them for decades and it's worked out reasonably well for her, certainly better than if everyone refused to publish her because they wanted to protect her from herself. Your embarrassment is your issue and the Times is not obligated to protect you from experiencing it. [/quote] 
Did I say they are obliged to do anything? The cultural well is polluted with the stories of misfits with anti-aspirational lives. They’re certainly free to cover the essays of a heroin addict that keeps relapsing and making bad choice after bad choice and rationalizing them after the fact, and I’d still find it ugly and unfit of a serious publication. Especially if there were a vocal group of heroin addicts spending all their time advocating how their lifestyle is the solution to many people’s problems, but I digress. Vive la difference![/quote]

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