Bingo.
It's no wonder New Yorkers elect con artists like Hillary. Giddy female Gothamites obviously love to add the agonies and burdens of her personal life on top of their own. She becomes they and they become she.
The NY Times is instinctively right on track printing these Ophra-type columns. This gooey crappioli is immensely popular with female readers and sells newspapers.
Witness the abundance of marital agony comments and intimate revelations which always immediately appear following the posting of such articles right here on this forum.
The book "Mommie Dearest" forever changed the culture in this country where personal and intimate matters were generally kept private and not used for attention, venting, paybacks, sympathy, profit and/or the analysis of strangers.
Leni