Stephanie H. Murray
@stephmurrayyyy
Contributing writer @theatlantic. Also in @nytimes @time @guardian @washingtonpost + more. Send me tips/hire me: [email protected]
Today in @TheAtlantic, I go on the record & say that if one of my kids is doing something you think they shouldn't be, whether invading your space or otherwise misbehaving, you have my permission to just go ahead and tell them that.
Dang I'm jealous. You can tell she has a lot of upper body strength. I wish I had these toddler flinging skills.
shes just flinging his ass around omfg 😭
Friday is known as Pizza Movie night in this household. Highly recommend.
If you a mom with a gaggle of small kids, I just want to say: you’re doing great. Your work (imperfect as it may be) is important and valuable. I hope you can find some peace today. It’s Friday: maybe a frozen pizza for dinner and a fun movie? Ignore this and its ilk👇
If you a mom with a gaggle of small kids, I just want to say: you’re doing great. Your work (imperfect as it may be) is important and valuable. I hope you can find some peace today. It’s Friday: maybe a frozen pizza for dinner and a fun movie? Ignore this and its ilk👇
Idk a few months ago, an activist tried to stump me by asking what trait ppl have that animals don't that makes it bad to kill us, but instead of saying “the capacity for reason” or w/e like he wanted, I said “we are made in the image and likeness of God” & the convo... stopped.
Nobody is going to like this, but you can clean up with vegetarian arguments. Basically everybody eats meat and almost nobody has thought about that decision even a little bit, so most people are way more confident that they can hold their own in an argument than they should be.
In Animal Farm, Boxer the horse's solution is always "I will work harder." He ends up at the glue factory. I think the "just work harder" p.o.v. is often destructive for mothers. Problem-solving to reduce workload & increase rest & recreation is essential to avoid later burnout.
The woman in this pic looks so much like a girl I went to elementary school with. Every time it goes viral I'm like dang I wonder how she's doing and if she really has a little baby.
Men only want one thing:
IMO the fundamental question re: kids voting is whether it's possible to reconcile the anti-paternalism of democracy with the paternalism of parenthood.
In light of the UK's decision to lower the voting age to 16: a deep dive on the movement to abolish it entirely.
A million times this
The problem with every essay about the hopelessness and frustration of modern romance/dating/marriage is that it's written by a writer and as I've said repeatedly, no one should date or marry a writer.
A social safety net that transfers resources from working-age people to non-workers makes sense, but within the category of non-workers we are massively overweight on "old people" relative to "kids and their caretakers."