“Yes,” she said with a final nod. “Exactly!” She threw her hands up in the air. “This is energizing! Putting it in a context—this is what it looks like—I feel like, I don’t know, I’m not totally fucked. It’s a the-emperor-has-no-clothes moment. Somebody has got to stand up and say, ‘actually wait a second,’ and then all of a sudden you realize that there’s a lot of people out there that were just waiting for you to say it!” Her smile widened. “That’s the idea,” I smiled back.

