> We all understand her meaning and the dashes emphasize her point without bold or italic letters. I didn't understand the meaning until I clicked through to t

> We all understand her meaning and the dashes emphasize her point without bold or italic letters. I didn't understand the meaning until I clicked through to the article. In fact, trying to understand the weird punctuation is the only reason I took any interest in this story. I don't think dashes can work as emphasis for that part of a sentence.