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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even the Cat Person author herself told the Slate writer upon confrontation:  “I’ve spent the past several days struggling with the question of how to balance what is right for me with what I owe you.”

I mean, barf. Just barf. Such entitlement and self-importance from Roupenian.

I graduated from Michigan 25 yrs ago. The story made Ann Arbor and UM immediately recognizable to me and to my fellow grads, even before seeing Roupenian did her MFA there. I assure you, that despite being a large school, those of us from creative-focused and/or writing-focused circles ... are not a large far-flung group. People immediately started asking: Who is this about. We knew we were one or two degrees of separation from real people in a real story.

Good on Alexis for writing this AND for recognizing Roupenian's line about incels coming after her and the story being a safety risk as just that -- an attempt at guilt and manipulation.  [/quote]

+1. This all makes sense to me. Well said. [/quote]

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