this is the best sub stack piece I’ve read in years. just the way you perfectly depicted the shriveling white male psyche as this desperate lashing out at women’s power…down to invoking sinead O’Connor. It means a lot to me because I too love sinead and her music and voice was so important to me, and I got the news at something of a crossroads in my life as well. I’m usually quite isolated in my life but it makes me feel better to know this whole depth of experience going on in others concurrently with mine, so thank you, I will be reading more of your work
Your post had me thinking about Susanna and the Elders, a painting by Artemesia Gentileschi that was re-discovered this week after languishing in storage for over one hundred years and misattributed for over two, first to a male artist and later to the "French School."
The painting depicts the biblical story of Susanna, who is surprised by two men while bathing and falsely accused of infidelity after refusing their advances. Ultimately, Susanna is proven innocent.
Queen Henrietta Maria commissioned it while her apartments were being redecorated in preparation for the royal birth. She loved the painting and displayed it prominently above her fireplace.
What I mean by all of this is that your voice rips out into the world. The rest of us need to catch up.
this is the best sub stack piece I’ve read in years. just the way you perfectly depicted the shriveling white male psyche as this desperate lashing out at women’s power…down to invoking sinead O’Connor. It means a lot to me because I too love sinead and her music and voice was so important to me, and I got the news at something of a crossroads in my life as well. I’m usually quite isolated in my life but it makes me feel better to know this whole depth of experience going on in others concurrently with mine, so thank you, I will be reading more of your work
Your post had me thinking about Susanna and the Elders, a painting by Artemesia Gentileschi that was re-discovered this week after languishing in storage for over one hundred years and misattributed for over two, first to a male artist and later to the "French School."
The painting depicts the biblical story of Susanna, who is surprised by two men while bathing and falsely accused of infidelity after refusing their advances. Ultimately, Susanna is proven innocent.
Queen Henrietta Maria commissioned it while her apartments were being redecorated in preparation for the royal birth. She loved the painting and displayed it prominently above her fireplace.
What I mean by all of this is that your voice rips out into the world. The rest of us need to catch up.
So funny
ALL HAIL THE QUEEN
Speeding in the middle of no where is fine, but you have to keep it to 90 MPH. Don't be reckless.
Soooo good. Thank you for this. I felt like you may have held back out of affect for this dude. I understand why. The dissonance of it all.
I love you