Amanda

If it's just a woman daring to put herself as the subject and exploring her own life, it's also dismissed as self-help.

You know, there used to be women who were writing about themselves online who dared to say, I would like to talk about my life.

All of us were called mommy bloggers.

Rachel Held Evans was called a mommy blogger and she didn't have kids at the time.

She was talking about faith and love and the world.

And radical political shit.

Mommy blogger.

That's what they called her.

It's just there's always terms for it.

And this is a flavor of that to me.

And I understand, I feel it constantly when my writing is written about.

I get it.

I understand what's happening.

The dismissal of it, I continue to believe that women's stories matter, that women's lives matter.

And I also know that in a world that hates women,

Every time a woman dares to speak, people will find a way to hate it.

Yes.

They'll use different words.

They'll use different little dismissing things.

They'll couch it in language that they can forgive themselves for later.