This was always the plan wrote:
Oh honey, you were his teacher going on 20 years ago. How cute
“Leland de la Durantaye once wrote that irony becomes cruelty when it’s used to disguise envy. That’s what’s happening here. You don’t have to admire David or Megan to see that mocking a law professor for offering thoughtful context—or dismissing a Stanford MD because she chose a different path—isn’t incisive critique. It’s insecurity with a sneer.
There’s room for fair discussion about training approaches or public personae. But if your instinct is to ridicule people who show vulnerability, work with care, and invest in others, the issue might not be them. It might be that you can’t recognise grace under pressure because you’ve never tried to hold anything that heavy.”
