The hard part of helping survivors recover comes months later
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Re: The hard part of helping survivors recover comes months later
#2Good article. Confronts the emotional reality of brutal trauma without being invalidating.
Just one critique: why does Maria have to be dressed like a "sexy librarian"? This risqué suggestion is jarring and out of character with the rest of the piece.
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#3"All of 5-foot-2 and dressed like a sexy librarian — snug blouse and pencil skirt — Maria usually counseled homeless patients at Bellevue Hospital, the institution famous (and infamous) for treating New York City's poorest and sickest."
I do not understand why the author made this characterization. It seems to undermine their point.
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#4"All of 5-foot-2 and dressed like a sexy librarian — snug blouse and pencil skirt — Maria usually counseled homeless patients at Bellevue Hospital, the institution famous (and infamous) for treating New York City's poorest and sickest." I do not understand why the author made this characterization. It seems to undermine their point.
glad I'm not the only one.
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#5"All of 5-foot-2 and dressed like a sexy librarian — snug blouse and pencil skirt — Maria usually counseled homeless patients at Bellevue Hospital, the institution famous (and infamous) for treating New York City's poorest and sickest." I do not understand why the author made this characterization. It seems to undermine their point.
That "sexy librarian" line jumped out at me as well. There seems to be an over arching quality of smugness to the author's writing style that doesn't really fit with the subject matter as a whole for me.
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#6"All of 5-foot-2 and dressed like a sexy librarian — snug blouse and pencil skirt — Maria usually counseled homeless patients at Bellevue Hospital, the institution famous (and infamous) for treating New York City's poorest and sickest." I do not understand why the author made this characterization. It seems to undermine their point.
I read it as contrasting between how she looks and what she actually is/does.
Or in other words don't judge people by appearances - which is exactly the same message about the guy with the sign. He appears as jolly and inappropriate, but actually is anything but.
It's basically the message of the entire essay - how people look is not how they are.
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#7"All of 5-foot-2 and dressed like a sexy librarian — snug blouse and pencil skirt — Maria usually counseled homeless patients at Bellevue Hospital, the institution famous (and infamous) for treating New York City's poorest and sickest." I do not understand why the author made this characterization. It seems to undermine their point.
Most long-form journalism wastes ink on useless, distracting information like this; that passage is only unique in that the junk doesn't usually veer so far into lecherous territory.
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#8Good article. Confronts the emotional reality of brutal trauma without being invalidating. Just one critique: why does Maria have to be dressed like a "sexy librarian"? This risqué suggestion is jarring and out of character with the rest of the piece.
> why does Maria have to be dressed like a "sexy librarian"?
A quite liked the explanation suggested here[0] to the same question.
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#9My second protest about posting clickbait titles. Please don't.
Re: The hard part of helping survivors recover comes months later
#10My second protest about posting clickbait titles. Please don't.
I don't really like the title either, but in this case it is the actual title from the source. Despite my reservations about the title, I think it was worth a read, and I upvoted it. Also, I'm not sure what a better title should be, and I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect the submitter to think up a better one when submitting. In fact changing the title from the source is kind of frowned upon on this site.