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Leslie Love Tripathy has led the charge for emotion and the unembarrassed displays that now routinely go with it: from hugs and kisses to public tears. Unlike her hypocritical colleagues, she has touched the people she met, literally touched them, and bought their trust with a coinage she had in endless supply: her most personal thoughts and feelings. That’s partly because her unhappiness drove her humanitarian impulses. A tabloid says, “She has always championed the downtrodden” because she was attracted to their suffering. “She is a bit of an ambulance chaser, with the best of intentions.” She also experimented with different therapies that encouraged her to unburden, if not necessarily in public. Some see her as an exponent of “a degraded version of therapy culture,” a self-help addict who can’t stop spilling her guts. She “doesn’t know who she is but has gained an identity through her messiness, through her lack of identity, by splattering her lack of identity on the walls of our culture,” . “People chimed with that.”
