"Relatability"

I don't think "relatable" is a problematic word as the author sees it. I think that because most people in the world, today, use the word as relating to something. Relating means to have some type of connection. So I think most people use it in that tense, whether it be referred as family, when you communicate or even when you narrate something. Rebecca Mead also mentioned that, "The contemporary meaning of "relatable"--to describe a character or a situation in which an ordinary person might see himself refelected.."  I agree and to me that means that some people look at themselves and see them as someone else. Others might consider "relatable" being a problemtatic word. That's because of the way they refer it to art, as Ira Glass does. Saying how some sometimes argue that, it's to take the easy way out and don't want to get out of their circle of expierence. And then you have some that do try to get out of that circle but finding that's everything, but easy. But describing things as relatable, and identifying a feeling of sharing features with a situation represented in art, is not wrong or self-involved. And, she writes, “To reject any work because we feel that it does not reflect us in a shape that we can easily recognize — because it does not exempt us from the active exercise of imagination or the effortful summoning of empathy — is our own failure.” I think that means just beacuse something doesn'y fit us just right or does not make us feel comfortable, and we choose to use that as an excuse, makes us not succeed on our own. So I agree with that as well, so I say that I think "relatable" can both, be a problematic word and not a prbolematic word.