An unexpected downside of gaining a reputation as a wife and a mother (hopefully positive) is that I do not feel I can tweet about my missteps and my failures.
It leaves me feeling choked.
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fwiw tweets about this sort of thing all the time and i think it's great and it increases my respect for her as a wife and mother by a lot
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I agree. She's very brave and helpful with her discourse. This leads me to believe it is my own sense of shame holding me back.
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(i also think it's worth noting that people say a lot of dumb unsolicited shit to her in response and i support her willingness to put up with it gracefully and also think it's a reasonable non-shame reason not to do it)
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yeah
I think that people making thoughtful and/or funny posts about their mistakes have a lot more affordance than they might think
but you do still get some bullshit in response and that's a real cost
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honestly your replies make me want to clang heads on a regular basis i don't know how you do it god bless
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selene out here being gracious in response to advice that is barely more sophisticated than "have you considered naps" when she's thinking out loud about complex difficult problems of motherhood i would have gotten suspended long ago
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HAAAA
selene: motherhood is different than i expected and not easy
some single childless dude: [weird projecting factually incorrect advice with distinct freudian undertones]
me, if i were selene: get the fuck off my lawn that's my purse i don't know you
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