It’s not just women, folks
Is it wrong that I totally identified with more than one thing in this piece?
Maya Lin, in a magazine profile after a documentary on her life was nominated for an Academy Award, literally shrinks before the attention, testifying to the value of being small and slight since “people don’t see you.” Lin’s desire for privacy is understandable, notes Fels, yet she did permit a documentary to be made about her. “One can’t help wondering,” Fels writes, “if her palpable unhappiness serves as a kind of preemptive strategy: if she’s already cringing with discomfort and pain, no one else need criticize her for being self-promoting or egotistical.” </a>
