Posted on Mar 30, 2021, 7:03 pm
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QuoteWhen my brother died, I was too shattered to write his obituary. There is little record of his 29 years of life; it simply vanished. When I type “Yush Gupta,” Google autofills “Yush Gupta death,” a brutal reminder that even on the internet, a space where nothing is forgotten, Yush is a mirage, slowly disappearing. ...
source: https://jezebel.com/stories-about-my-brother-1835651181
I’m not sure what to make of this…
I am somewhat disgusted at how the writer exploits her brother’s death to virtue-signal. In addition to virtue signaling, the writer is using a personal tragedy for her own gain, i.e. a notch on her writing “CV”… and advance her political point of view. The piece would be OK if it talked about the silent pains of mental health / depression issues and other male issues (height, hair loss, etc.).