The erasure of mothers, and in particular poorer mothers, is such an issue. It’s one of the ways the feminist movement makes it abundantly clear that the needs of upper-class white women are paramount, while everyone else needs to take a backseat. Read more

When your country decides to actually provide decent paid maternity leave, then perhaps we’ll talk. Till then....nope. You don’t get to whine about this. Read more

I used to comment regularly on Jezebel for years (under a different name) and stopped because of the feeling the author describes when someone she assumed would be an ally made her feel unwelcome. Read more

Now I can’t imagine it any other way. Thank you. Read more

I’ve been eventually dumped or rejected or made to feel like shit in some capacity by almost every dude I’ve ever fucked or wanted to fuck and yet somehow I’ve managed to never mass murder Read more

Also a FT freelancer, and I fell into it the same way you did - lose a job (in my case, government contracting), freelance while looking for a new one, and then finally realize “hey, I can just do this more often and call it a job!” Read more

I don’t think you need to be too scared yet. Crappy organizations are crappy organizations from top to bottom, it’s true, but she was an editor, not a staff writer. I imagine the experience may have been at least somewhat different otherwise.
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Hey Jennifer - I’m a writer who’s currently on her third staff job, and has also worked as a freelancer. My first staff job was very hard, very stressful, and had me crying every day and hating everything. I knew that one was bad, and I was pushed out. After freelancing for a month I got another staff job (albeit… Read more

STOP USING THAT ADORABLE BABY TO PEDDLE YOUR CANDY CORN LIES Read more

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Actually, you won’t let women drive because Saudi men are masochistic pricks. Read more