Gonna make a short THREAD🧵on this article because it’s one of the most revealing pieces of media I’ve encountered in a while. Story is exactly as lurid as the headline makes it sound but most interesting part and bigger insight into American elite mindset is how it’s all framed
This is a story about an emotionally stunted autistic woman discovering love. But because she’s also a philosophy professor, she thinks she’s had a revelation about humanity that she needs to share. Expert-respecters at the New Yorker accept that narrative uncritically…
