yeah there was a strong strain of “not like other girls” among 19th early feminists. rhoda nunn in “the odd women” reminded me a lot of martineau

i haven’t written as much about charlotte as i should but here’s something i did write open.substack.com/pub/notthewh...

today is charlotte brontë’s birthday. in her honor, consider

yeah my own experience of being a young person in a religious environment was being so alienated from my own desires and emotions that the question “are you happy” would have been impossible to answer honestly

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

- j. d. vance

100 percent. now to pull up some recent statistics on sports gambling among young american males

anyways i don’t take kindly to lesbian smugness re. straigh women’s romantic problems. “men are just like couches” fuck off women get murdered by their boyfriends and husbands

excluding myself from this narrative because i’m a pretty content and happy gal, but the picture of women surrounded by marriage offers and men who want to commit to coupling up is so far from reality

imagine taking relationship advice from someone who married bari weiss

thank you, nellie bowles

i just want you to know that i’m here and i’m appreciating this joke more than anyone else

sung softly enough any song can be a lullaby

we need a raffi–mr. cardamom crossover event

but he does need to expand his kiddie song repertoire beyond “the wheels on the bus”

not to be all “my mayor is cooler than your mayor” but it’s pretty great to see a male politician put childcare front and center, and to see him get mobbed by children wherever he goes

yeah i can see how (for example) adding ai to electronic healthcare systems would result in more work surveillance and higher productivity demands for healthcare workers, but as with teaching this will result in worse experience/outcomes for patients and workers

i don’t wear glasses. spiritually, however

don’t make me look over my glasses at you

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS SITTING ON A SMALL STOOL, AND SHE HAS HER HEAD PROPPED UP IN HER LEFT HAND SHE LOOKS WORRIED, SHE IS THINKING OF A JAIL P2- NANCY HAS HER HANDS OVER HER EYES AS SHE THINKS OF MUGSHOT PHOTOS, THE FIRST ONE IS AL CAPONE THE SECOND IS JOHN DILLINGER AND THE LAST MUGSHOT IS A PICTURE OF HERSELF P3- FRITZI SEES NANCY SITTING ON THE STOOL, NANCY IS COVERING HER FACE AS. SHE THINKS OF HERSELF IN A STRIPED PRISON UNIFORM FRITZI: WHAT'S WRONG, NANCY? P4- NANCY: THIS BOOK IS SEVEN DAYS OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 19,1947

that sounds so good 🥹

i want sourdough starter not because i want to make bread but because adding it to pancake batter would elevate the pancakes to new heights of deliciousness

emmanuel c-

ok but the way this narrator pronounces kant is sending me

rod dreher moving to the dprk

i stopped dating a guy because he tried to convince me that it’s fine that childcare professionals are underpaid because, by his reasoning, if they stopped working it wouldn’t make a measurable difference to society. would not hear any arguments to the contrary

me in an express train: i’m da king of da subway

me in a fast car: i’m going to die

no such thing as “train sickness”

just from a purely sensory perspective being in a train is so much more pleasant than being in a car

sure