Lisa Britton

It’s time to find compassion for boys and men. A shift in public perspective is overdue, and progress can accelerate if women—particularly those with liberal values—champion this cause, because the future isn’t female: The future is everyone. New from me for the @latimes 🙌 latimes.com/opinion/story/…

How about we stop devaluing motherhood for economic reasons? How about we start framing motherhood in a positive, beautiful light? You’re “Nature” journal smh… There’s nothing more anti-nature than diminishing motherhood.

I think the Democrats whole problem is that they focus too much on identity and not the best person for the job. If they focus on the best person for the job and tone down their identity politics/strategy, that energy would carry over and who knows? Perhaps a woman would win.

@noetic_heart Yes, we discuss this a lot from @FamStudies

@LisaBritton Weird, I just saw another poll that showed married women with children were the happiest.

This post popping up in my feed stopped me in my scrolling with a gasp. The anti-family messaging coming out of the UK has been on overdrive lately. Why do you think that is?

@ChetP48596892 @BradWilcoxIFS @RichardvReeves Yup… men and women are not the same and shouldn’t be, despite what economists think.

@LisaBritton @BradWilcoxIFS @RichardvReeves Underlying all of this is the ever present assumption that gender roles and the nature of marriage is a social construct that can be readily changed if we all agree. When they disregard the different natures of the sexes, they will never - NEVER - solve our modern conundrums.

Too simplistic a framing, @RichardvReeves. As your colleague & Nobel Laureate George Aklerof observed, it's the whole institution of marriage--with its rituals, norms, and roles + the actual relationship itself--that continues to play a transformative role in the lives of men.

@bestmenspod 👇

@LisaBritton You can still have a long-term relationship and have kids without getting the government involved.

New from the NYTimes and it’s disappointing. They discuss the factors leading to fewer people getting married pretty fairly, but at no point do they discuss why marriage is important—especially for children—so it basically turns into more subtle anti-marriage propaganda. Shame.

@dangainor @BradWilcoxIFS @RichardvReeves Yes… women should be held accountable for the state of relationships as well. It’s just too many in positions of cultural power are afraid to say it.

@LisaBritton @BradWilcoxIFS @RichardvReeves Almost every media article about marriage or relationship relationships, blames men

Men take more risks, even with joke telling!

We’ve grown up in a culture that whispers: your body is yours alone, your time is better spent climbing ladders, and your deepest calling—to nurture life—is somehow regressive. We’ve experienced or watched friends delay motherhood for “the right moment” that never arrives, only to confront the hollow regret of empty arms and unfulfilled hearts. We’ve scrolled past feeds where career success and solo travel are celebrated while rocking a newborn in the dark goes unmentioned. To reject motherhood is to reject the very architecture of female existence. The numbers tell a sad story. In 2024, America’s total fertility rate hit a historic low of 1.63 births per woman, down sharply from the 2.12 peak in 2007. Globally, the rate hovers near 2.2 and is projected to fall below replacement level (2.1) by 2050, setting the stage for population contraction. Entire societies face aging populations, strained economies, and the slow erasure of cultural memory passed through generations of mothers. This is the result of a deliberate, multi-decade war on motherhood waged by the most powerful people at the top: government agencies, cultural elites, corporations, and ideological architects who view the family as an obstacle to control, consumption, and “progress.” This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Click to read: bit.ly/4lW6s9U By @LisaBritton

I was just typing a text and wrote “womansplaining” and it autocorrected to “mansplaining.” Autocorrect is sexist.

Did you know unmarried, cohabiting parents are nearly FOUR times more likely to split up before their child turns five than married parents? Studies show 50%+ of cohabiting parents separate by the time their child is five, while only about 15% of married parents do. Marriage and commitment matter, especially for children.

I’ve always had one extreme calling me an evil feminist and the other extreme calling me an evil anti-feminist and it really has nothing to do with me, but it does remind me to be as clear as possible in my messaging. I can’t control what people think at that point.

I’m not saying every woman belongs at home. That would be just as tyrannical as saying none of us do. The entire point—the one feminists refuse to concede—is that we get to decide. Some women will thrive in the office. Some will find joy in teaching, medicine, entrepreneurship. And yes, some will light up at the thought of being there when their toddler takes her first steps, of teaching her ABCs, of building a home that feels like a sanctuary instead of a rest stop between work shifts. All of those are valid. All of them are feminine. None of them require the approval of Sheryl Sandberg. New from me for Evie: eviemagazine.com/post/sheryl-sa…

There are people on my feed right now arguing that boys haven’t been belittled, devalued, put on the back burner, blamed or shamed over the past few decades. What ideological rock have they been living under?

@BenjaminDEKR 💯

@LisaBritton I grew up in a very small, ultra conservative Christian Midwest town 90s in elementary school, HS freshman in 2001 All the girls played sports. It was common. There were entire programs for getting girls playing sports. Everyone went to their games and they were celebrated

The gaslighting is crazy. As a child in the 90s and into 2000s, we were supported and encouraged in every way. Not only were we told we could do anything, but we should do everything. The amount of resources and help for us seemed limitless. It was boys who were belittled, dismissed and put on the back burner. That’s why we have a crisis today.

Choice was never the goal. Direction was. The architects of second-wave feminism understood something about female nature: that given genuine freedom, a huge percentage of us would choose relationships, babies, and the domestic arts over climbing corporate hierarchies. So they set out to close that door. Sandberg’s Lean In was the corporate-friendly sequel. It dressed up the same ideology in PowerPoint slides and TED Talks. “You can have it all,” it whispered, “just lean in harder.” What it really meant was: You must want what we tell you to want. New from me for Evie: eviemagazine.com/post/sheryl-sa…

@SojuConnoisseur It is!

@LisaBritton One minor nitpick It was boys being belittled... it's still boys being belittled.