Liz Hodgson
278 posts
@Lizzysrsly
Writes about the intersection of politics and culture on Substack.
Hudson’s Bay once owned 5% of the Earth’s land surface and now it’s a kiosk in a Canadian Tire
People are being jerks to @herandrews about this, but anyone who has taken the professional and intellectual risk of rejecting the borg knows exactly what she’s saying. Helen, with whom I often vehemently disagree, is erudite, witty, and, on the sentence level, simply a much better writer than Jia Tolentino. She went to an elite college (Yale) and could have easily stayed on that elite track. Had she compromised ideologically, she probably could have attained Jia Tolentino’s level of mainstream recognition—and yet in doing so, would have fallen to the same bland prose, the same mediocrity that plagues the New Yorker and essentially every other mainstream cultural institution. Tolentino has never written anything that has truly challenged any tenet of millennial feminism. Even the “stealing lemons from Whole Foods” is regurgitated Tumblr. Helen, on the other hand, has defended women against sufferage and cigarette smoking and was hating on boomers years before these became memes on the right; she’s written essays on how cronyism might not be so bad, which is a confounding position to hold but that’s almost beside the point. The point is that the mark of a great writer isn’t mainstream recognition or agreeableness—again, there are a million things I think Helen in particular is dead wrong on—but intellectual integrity. Everyone saying “haha you just couldn’t hack success” is missing her point entirely (or perhaps proving it).
Freeland who smiled & laughed when asked to confirm if non criminal Canadians bank accounts were frozen recently received a “heroes of democracy” award. The most vile people are always rewarded. The world is upside down.
“When you go up against Donald Trump…you go in the grinder.” Tucker Carlson has seen a net favorability drop of 47 points among republicans.
“why can’t men stay home with the babies? Why does it have to be women?” aside from the obvious fact that men cannot have babies, we quite literally need all the men to go to work or there’s no civilization. Not so with most women’s jobs.
