Jan
30th
30th
It became widely understood that a closeted student at Rutgers had committed suicide after video of him having sex with a man was secretly shot and posted online. In fact, there was no posting, no observed sex, and no closet.
From Ian Parker’s long, revealing, story: “Tyler Clementi’s Suicide and Dharun Ravi’s Trial”. [The New Yorker]
The article really isn’t exactly about either of those things, and I’m sure that many people will read it very differently. For instance, I thought that it was sympathetic to both parties. But aside from the compelling and sad central narrative, there are just some completely phenomenal word choices throughout and it really demonstrates how people (college students) live publicly now without being showy (I’d barely realized how much was sourced from digital communications until there comes a jarring part in the story when he writes: “It’s not known if they talked—there is no electronic record.”).
Source:
newyorker.com
