Jia Tolentino

Nov 22, 2024 | abigailwise.substack.com | Martin Fritz Huber |Jia Tolentino |Ryleigh Nucilli |Abigail Wise

A mom in Georgia was recently arrested and charged with reckless conduct after her ten-year-old son was found walking less than a mile from her home. I can’t stop thinking about it. Many of us grew up riding our bikes around the neighborhood and walking with friends to the lake down the bike path. Even now, with a two-year-old, I wonder how much freedom is good for him: Is it OK if he wanders around the upper area of our farm, where I can mostly see him and hear him when the window’s cracked?

Nov 13, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jia Tolentino

In 1970, a few years before Roe v. Wade, feminists agitating for abortion rights, at a Philadelphia protest, held up signs that said “My Body, My Decision”—a slogan that morphed, during the course of the next decade, into “My body, my choice.” This became the defining phrase of the pro-choice movement, a line toward which feminism moved aspirationally and asymptotically.

Nov 13, 2024 | flipboard.com | Jia Tolentino

Women Chose The Bear And Then Expected Men To Show Up For Them On Election DayLadies, if you had to be stuck alone in the woods with either a man or a bear, which would you choose?This is the question that captivated the …

Nov 7, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jia Tolentino |George Saunders |Kelefa Sanneh |Lorrie Moore

The gender war, as pitched by politicians, revolves around two competing visions of a woman’s life. The Trumpists believe that the left wants women to be Plan B-gobbling dilettantes in their youth; dick-stomping corporate drones in early adulthood; lonely, angry spinsters who approach forty in a mania for egg-freezing or emasculation.

Nov 6, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jia Tolentino

The big two genders are said to be at war. The results of the Presidential election can hardly be read otherwise: in preliminary exit-poll data out of Pennsylvania, women aged eighteen to twenty-nine swung forty points for Kamala Harris, while their male counterparts swung twenty-four points for Donald Trump. The conflict—the dark, snarling, many-headed beast of indifference and contempt that emerges from these numbers—has been building for decades.