Ambivalence
Rebecca Traister’s piece on Emily Gould’s story in last week’s New York Times Magazine is great, smart, clear and I think so right. There’s one thing I would add, something sparked by this quote from right at the end of this piece (also great) from David Sarno on the L.A. Times’ Web Scout blog. Sarno asked New York Times Magazine editor Gerry Marzorati about one common complaint, that Gould’s piece seemed to lack a clear conclusion. Marzorati says that comments comes “from people who wanted her to renounce herself — to abandon her blog-post ways and beg the culture’s forgiveness. What I found most interesting was her ambivalence and complication, but that seems to have driven people crazy.”
If there’s one thing I’ve noticed these last few years scouring the internet, it’s that the web amplifies people’s discomfort with the ambiguous, the hard-to-pin-down. It drives them insane. Ambivalence has little room on the web — we like it short and concrete, please.
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— Rebecca Traister, Salon
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