I agree with your take. IMO she’s showing some real character here, especially in the humility and bravery departments. I say bravo to this lady.
I know very little about her personally except for some recent opinions on the COVID issue and what feminist junk I read from her over the years which was not very much.
My impression was a feminist woman with some writing skills who was wealthy and contemptuous of conservatives and their values, and lived an insulated life in Manhattan on the cocktail circuit, at all the “right” parties with the “right” people, someone who would appear as a face in the crowd at the Oscars, etc.
In short, not someone whose opinions meant anything at all to me. I had read a piece here, an article there, over the years, but I stopped doing even that some time ago.
I find that is the way with a lot of Leftists. I mean, I have gotten to the point over the years that I can read an article and discern in the first sentence, if not first few words of a sentence just exactly what a Leftist is going to say. And I have been spot on 90%+ of the time.
I have often said that the transparency of Leftists is something I actually am quite grateful for, as their predictability has saved me literally weeks or even months of my life by being able to grasp their shallow stupidity seconds into their works, rather than burrowing 10 minutes into it to realize it is another vapid intellectual dead end.
I have read a lot of their “work”, so this is something I thank them for, oddly enough.