In this, the year of Julia Fox, Top Gun, “responsible ejaculation”, shrooming mamas, and Ginni Thomas, the Spread (ie: me and @iamyourbaker) humbly submits our picks for the best “women’s media” reads and writers of 2022 https://t.co/8F3JFrQDpI
@jessicadefino_ Because perpetrators are human beings, too. And this one is a child. I can’t apologize for compassion, and I never said that the child shouldn’t face repercussions. There’s a need to hold space for both of these—anger and hurt and the need to punish plus compassion for a child.
@jessicadefino_ I am WITH Fiona (and you re Fiona) 100 percent. What I am trying—and obviously failing!— to say is that I found myself surprised to have felt empathetic for Diego AT ALL after such he committed such a terrible offense. That somehow the 20 years post-high school have changed me.
@jessicadefino_ children of all genders deserve grace when they mess us up. Being part of a team raising a boy is indeed a ton of responsibility—I talk to our boy kid about consent and consequences at least once a week….
@jessicadefino_ Hi, Author here! First time I’ve ever been called a “boy mom”—a term that I loathe and not only because I’m technically the boy’s stepmom—given that as of next week I’ll also be a parent to three (3) girls! My point that holds is that I think….
Just a perfect synthesis of ignorance of the human body, people's actual lives, and instrumentalization of women as baby and feeding machines whether or not they want to or can.
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This is true—I also remember someone saying that average freelance rates haven’t changed much since Jo March from Little Women won $100 for her short story contest in 1868. BLEAK!!!