For the show to work, it can’t be men who are telling these young women to play pianoforte, stuff themselves into corsets, or avoid untoward contact with their lovers. It has to be other women who are pushing them for an heir, telling them to forgive the men for their rakish behavior, encouraging them that marriage and children will be their greatest joy. When living fathers do appear—Cressida Cowper’s domineering father a prime example—their obsession with marriage and offspring comes off as evil and controlling. But when it’s women telling other women that marriage is the route to self-actualization, that Mary Wollstonecraft’s critical assessment of marriage “does not sufficiently value love,” we’re meant to find it inspiring.

This essay is way more coherent about this problem! defector.com/the-fatherle...

A replicator, but real?

I was worried this lyft driver was playing AI music and then I heard the soothing voice of Nelly. Millennial tranquillizer

These are the people who still have an office after retirement and croak when it gets taken away

I draw the line of even a dumb character on Bridgerton saying Mary Wollstonecraft did not account for love. BE FOR REAL

the thing about midsomer murders is that it’s not a cozy mystery series like people think … it is CAMP

I took my last bus ride on my route yesterday before it ends, and I am so sad. Hopefully the new route won't be sitting in traffic for too long

For a few years, people knew me as the person who would walk and read at the same time (I took the train and had short walks to work and home). Strangers would ask me, are you Belle, the girl who reads and walks? (I stopped bc I moved and didn't take the train, and audiobooks)

Anvarī (12C Persian poet) in a treetop garden pavilion (Mughal period)

If you've read the Liveship Traders, he reminds me of Kennit

The Young Pope is so awkward! The kangaroo???

No, they need to read! Take a class!

I need the girlies to stop inventing shit and read any book!

I was made for this, I'm in!

I've been searching for it everywhere and can't find it! So glad for the positive report!

I love that song in Dicks: the Musical

This half the reason I shower at night! I do walk a lot though bc I don't drive, so my feet get dirty, even in shoes

It's a great time for Pope beef, as I've watched one episode of The Young Pope this evening by coincidence

To Avignon!

The president of my college (when I was there) is the daughter of the leaders of the Hungarian resistance movement and when she took students on a trip to Hungary, Orban PERSONALLY came to their tour of parliament unannounced to intimidate her. Ironic, considering that he benefitted from them

These guys

Stevenson wants us to, “encourage us to realize that we have to help men understand that they can do caregiving roles and stay masculine.”

Alternately, I want men to read a book. And I get to choose the book.

Valid! But maybe another great path to new friends and dates!

Only of yourself if you don't try!

I refuse! I predict you will find some wonderful paramours if you get back on the apps!

That is the way!

It does exist, in the bubbles of historic women's colleges that accept everyone (except cis men)! My whole working life has been in women led spaces, I don't take it for granted