1) I& #39;m 26. 2) My soon-to-be-wife is 27. 3) It& #39;s pretty fucking infantilizing to suggest that there& #39;s something weird about me conducting interviews with other professionals in the course of my job being a reporter. But more importantly... https://twitter.com/Mont_Jiang/status/1309557572647739394">https://twitter.com/Mont_Jian...

One of the main points I& #39;m making, here, is that & #39;I want a lot of kids& #39; has somehow become one of the most provocative statements you can make as a progressive person of my generation. This is the first time I have literally been called a fascist for it, but the anger isn& #39;t new.

People have surrendered the idea & #39;it& #39;s okay to want large families& #39; to religious conservatives to the point where they& #39;ll tell you you& #39;re a "tradwife" for believing it. Any way you want to live your life is okay - unless you want a lot of kids, in which case it& #39;s disgusting.

The thing that made One Billion Americans such a relief to read was that it was a book about how, maybe, there are some good things about people, enough good things about people that we don& #39;t need to crush and scream at folks who want to have more of them.

And the reaction to One Billion Americans confirms that this is a pretty bold take, even though most of its actual policy prescriptions are bland things everyone likes, because there& #39;s something deeper than policy here, something about visions for the future.

The thing that drives me nuts about this is that the leftists sneer "go be a tradwife" and the religious conservatives continue to work to make lives like mine stigmatized, illegal or impossible because, guess what, they also don& #39;t want a future full of lesbian Vox reporter moms.