Maybe this is already an Internet phenomenon (possible, judging by the 1216 comments on the online version), but this article has got to be the most insufferable bullshit that the NY Times has ever published.

For example

My blog post was ridiculous and petty and small — and, suddenly, incredibly important. At some point I’d grown accustomed to the idea that there was a public place where I would always be allowed to write, without supervision, about how I felt. Even having to take into account someone else’s feelings about being written about felt like being stifled in some essential way.