Men Yell At Me

“Men Yell At Me” started as a platform to share the untold stories that accompany my writing. It serves as a space for the interesting details and experiences that don’t make it into my main articles. This includes adventures like visiting a Fundamentalist compound in Idaho, preparing for the Miss America pageant, toning down for a reporting assignment in South Dakota, navigating snowy paths to interview candidates during the caucuses, dealing with unexpected moments during interviews, and creating a children's section for a community newspaper.

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'Brian, ya little weasel!'

5 days ago | lyz.substack.com | Isabella Rosario

I’ve been a mother for just over 14 years now. And I’ve been a writer for even longer than that. As a mother and a writer, I have been conscripted, willingly or otherwise, into having takes on Mother’s Day for over a decade now. And you know what? I simply don’t want to do it this year. If you’d like to read about Mother’s Day today, here are some links to a couple of my past articles and one by .
It’s so easy not to know anything

2 weeks ago | lyz.substack.com | Isabella Rosario

While on vacation, I deleted Instagram, TikTok, Gmail, BlueSky, and the Substack app off my phone. I don’t use Facebook anymore. I left the NYT app on because I was determined not to lose my Wordle streak, and I was honest with myself: I knew I’d want to scroll headlines even while on my break. And I’d want to be aware of any serious breaking news. What surprised me was how easy it was not to know. Real quick, while I have you here, before the paywall. I don’t paywall much in this newsletter.
Dingus of the Week: Marco Rubio

4 weeks ago | lyz.substack.com | Josh Gondelman

Lyz is out on vacation. If you can call walking mournfully over the over the wind-swept terrain of Ireland and casting yearning glances into the sea a vacation. And Lyz would, because she’s a little touched like that. Turns out Wuthering Heights girlies never really grow out of it. At best, they become Wuthering Heights women. Embarrassing behavior for a 42-year-old, and a great argument against letting women learn how to read.
Three Women on Why They Won’t Get Married

1 month ago | lyz.substack.com | Minda Honey |Shani Silver |Glynnis MacNicol

The only reason I can continue writing and working as an independent feminist voice out of middle America is because people pay to subscribe to this newsletter. Become a paying subscriber and support the voices you want to hear more of in this world. After I ended my 12-year marriage in 2018, I decided that unless the health insurance marketplace collapsed, I didn’t want to marry ever again.
Dingus of the week: Much ado about tariffs

1 month ago | lyz.substack.com | Josh Gondelman

Girl, are you a tariff? Because I find you baffling and ruinous. Girl, are you a tariff? Because we are on-again off-again. Girl, are you a tariff? Because you are emptying my savings and then disappearing on me. This week, Donald Trump’s tariffs went into effect, causing the markets to crash. But then, jk the tariffs were reversed and the markets went up.
Breaking up with screens

1 month ago | lyz.substack.com | Virginia Sole-Smith

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been deleting Instagram and BlueSky off my phone over the weekends. I have to confess I didn’t come up with the idea. This move was inspired by , a queen of boundary setting. And I’ve learned that I don’t really miss them that much. It’s inspired me to put my phone away when I am with friends — turning myself on airplane mode and refusing to Google answers during conversations. I recently befriended someone who only texts once a day! Imagine that.
Dingus of the week: Brooke Rollins

2 months ago | lyz.substack.com | Josh Gondelman

This week, the US Department of Agriculture cut $1 billion in money that was used to buy food from local farms for schools and food banks. The funding helped small farmers and provided free school lunches for kids in need.
Feminism isn’t ruining the American family

2 months ago | lyz.substack.com | Garrett Bucks |Moira Donegan |Kate Manne

Last year, at a book event with , someone in the audience asked him how he, a family man, felt being up on stage with me, an advocate for divorce. Garrett handled the question with his usual disarming wit, replying that he felt great about it. I was a little less charming. Feminists have families too, I pointed out. Divorced people are still part of families. In fact, a good portion of my book is dedicated to talking about the joys of parenting with freedom and love.
What small things are you doing?

2 months ago | lyz.substack.com | Liz Plank |Dave Bangert |Michelle Albanes-Davis |Amanda Montei

On Friday, I hosted a Substack live with . Liz is a political journalist, podcaster, and author. She was a senior producer and political correspondent at Vox, and is the author of the book For the Love of Men. She also has the newsletter . I love Liz’s joyful approach to the bizarre and idiotic political moment we find ourselves in. We talk about politics, “resistance”, and how we can show up for ourselves and our communities over the next four years, and our lifetimes.
Writing the personal as political

Jan 16, 2025 | lyz.substack.com | Rebecca Makkai

Last year, after the election, I was asked to teach a class for StoryStudio in Chicago, which is run by the endlessly talented . The topic of the class I taught was writing political essays and I titled it “The Personal is Political.”The phrase "the personal is political" was popularized by the publication of feminist activist Carol Hanisch's 1969 essay of the same title. The idea was and is that our lives and our experiences are products of the systems of power and politics that surround us.