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1) I'm 26. 2) My soon-to-be-wife is 27. 3) It's pretty fucking infantilizing to suggest that there'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
One of the main points I'm making, here, is that 'I want a lot of kids' 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't new.
People have surrendered the idea 'it's okay to want large families' to religious conservatives to the point where they'll tell you you'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'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'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'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't want a future full of lesbian Vox reporter moms.
