I followed your link and I share your "yeesh". And the eye-roll that goes along with it. :) The idea that all art must make one squirm is so weird to me. It pushes so much out of the heading "art": Michelangelo's "David", Beethoven's 9th symphony, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee". All three are examples of art that moves, but I don't think any of them make the viewer or listener or reader squirm. I mean sometimes art does make one squirm but to say that's all it can do? I think that's as narrow-minded as saying all art must be pleasing.
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