Antifeminists are coming for women's media (and Blake Lively)
Plus: a 2 a.m. Justin Baldoni voice memo, women saying 'no' when they feel it, essentialist 'polarity,' and more in the weekend roundup.
Happy Sunday!
I sent my book over to my editor on Friday, but only after a last-minute change of the file name from “THIS ONE BIIIITCHLOVES.” I’ve had so many different documents going with various tests and tweaks happening. Usual naming conventions go out the window as you try to keep track of the most recent draft. “LATEST VERSION” escalates quickly, getting weird and desperate and playfully hostile.
This reminds me of how as a 12-year-old I saved a top-secret diaristic Word document on the family computer as “dontread.” My dad, whose name is Don, saw it as “Don Tread”(?!) and opened it. He read enough to discover that I was concerned that I… had a tumor and was dying of cancer, so then he had to confront me about it and take me to the doctor, where I discovered I wasn’t dying but just had a swollen lymph node.
Anyway! In this week’s roundup, we’ve got “toxic feminism,” authoritarianism in the home, re-segregation, a Romeo + Juliet bar, and more, BIIIITCHLOVES.
To the links…
Audio was leaked of a voice memo that Justin Baldoni sent to Blake Lively at 2 a.m., reportedly during preproduction for It Ends With Us. (If you’re not keeping up, Lively sued him for on-set harassment.) In the more than six-minute-long audio clip, Baldoni apologizes for a conflict over the script while sounding like he’s auditioning as a corny audio erotica voice actor.