I appreciated the bit where she acknowledged she'd been writing a stereotypical snarky, judgmental Slate article up to that point. Unfortunately by that point,

I appreciated the bit where she acknowledged she'd been writing a stereotypical snarky, judgmental Slate article up to that point. Unfortunately by that point, the article was nearly finished, and there wasn't time to recover from it. I'm not sure what I should be taking away from this article: seems like not much happened, but they had to write a certain number of words about it anyway.