Writing honestly about motherhood still provokes anger, but we must tell our stories
Rhiannon Lucy CosslettThe problems and worries are perennial, but each generation experiences them differently
This is the reason why I’m retreading subjects that have been written about for centuries so Nyah, Nyah.
Wonder how long The Guardian will let her continue?
“Wonder how long The Guardian will let her continue?”
Indefinitely. Obvs.
A Cosslet article never provoked anger in me. Hilarity and pity, mostly.
She thinks women sympathise with her, accept her grumbles about patriarchal culture, and admire her writing. But I suspect most readers are enjoying the spectacle of someone being a less competent and stoical mother than they were.
Well, they’ve got to fill all that white space between the… erm… other bits filling the white space. Do they actually carry adverts any more? All the panhandling loudly suggests they’ve dispensed with their in-content income stream.
When in Austria, I used to read Der Standard newspaper. I liked it, becase it was properly independent but managed to avoid being dull like our Indy and had a decent mix of its own reporters and press agency stories, that it distinguished between at the foot of the article ( so you didn’t get lazy journos just rehashing press releases).
In the last five years or so it has become completely unreadable. It has started to mimic the Guardian in its drvel and is also begging for dosh from its readers. Go woke etc…
It’s utter drivel – possibly the sole columnist in print today less coherent than Murphy. However, as Theo says – this will go on…and on….and on
… we must tell our stories…
Must we? Seems to me a good way of ensuring your nipper gets bullied at school.
It provokes yawns.
“Motherhood”. That is a transphobic term, proper one is “parenthood” which is inclusive ie includes both parenting individuals…to think of it, the word parent is problematic as its root looks to be “pere” which is patriarchal.
The whole language is transphobic and thus abusive.
https://iqfy.com/women-smell-trans-inclusivity/
“so you didn’t get lazy journos just rehashing press releases”
A pal of mine used to write press releases. She liked a journalist who would write a sentence of two of introduction and then just present the press release. A wise and honest man.
Her experience was that any journalist who wrote his own paraphrase of the press release would mangle the facts and arguments.
Ottokring,
It’s a general problem. Massive supply of people doing “news”, companies like Google doing the useful information stuff (share prices, football results).
If you look at video game magazines, they used to be entertaining blokes like Charlie Brooker writing reviews of the latest games and generally news, tech etc. They’re now overrun by purple haired women writing about the culture at Blizzard Games or representation in gaming. The fun people have moved to blogging or YouTube.
Jussi
Bang on!
It suggests that “people with cervixes” have some innate advantage over the rest of us. Bigots !
In the last five years or so it has become completely unreadable. It has started to mimic the Guardian in its drivel and is also begging for dosh from its readers. Go woke etc…
But does Der Standard own the Austrian equivalent of Autotrader that it can flog off for £1bn and stash the dosh overseas (all the while loudly bellyaching about ‘Panama Papers’ etc.).
I’m waiting for some woman to write an article entitled, “Why Hitting Your Kids Is Sometimes The Only Way.”
And when the Twitter mob unleashes the hounds, she can pretend she’s a victim of patriarchal mother shaming.