The most infuriating part about these foie gras bans: The dish is *not actually cruel to produce.*
Ducks & geese give themselves fatty liver disease before migration. Their throat anatomy makes force-feeding painless. This entire thing is based on activist fan fiction.
Today was the first Halloween my kid was old enough to walk around, pick out a piece of candy from the bowl, sort of get what was happening, etc. and wow—parenthood is the greatest thing ever.
What is everybody so scared of? Another reason I sometimes question if I’m the problem. I just don’t really feel scared of the world at all and think most things are wonderful
If we actually cared about the birth rate, we’d stop advertising parenthood as a hair shirt.
So good @karakclairmont@TheFP: How Modern Parenting Became the Suffering Olympics
When I commented in response to the tweet Kara is writing on saying it’s fine to leave your kids actually someone asked me, “Maybe you don’t have kids…”
Oh, I do. And we parent very differently.
Moms can host and party or do neither and nobody is irreparably messing their kids up because none of this actually matters.
Anyway, read my piece in @TheFPthefp.com/p/how-modern-paren…
When you find your good mom friends you realize you don’t need to play these games and you can finally breathe and drop your defensiveness and a have a nice cold glass of wine together and pretend none of it ever happened