Freya India

I read loads of books with liberal assumptions that are sort of weaved into the book.

Every book I read about social media is pretty much like that.

But I never feel the urge to go on a 2000 word rant, destroying someone else's book.

I just put that energy into my own.

yes if it's tons of quote tweets and presuming that it's not just this is awesome and i really like this which no one is doing go you're extracting from the system more than you're adding to it it's always people who've never written a book that say this is so badly researched this is so lazy this is this way this is this way um and i've noticed when it's

Yeah, when it's really visceral criticism of the book, they tend to have a profile, which is criticism of everyone else's attempt to do anything.

Well, that new statesman piece said there was a young woman worried about reform forcing them to have babies.

And that's how they framed it.

They think reform will force them to have children.

And that's why I laughed at The Handmaid's Tale.

Because it's like they have one story that they just extrapolate onto everything.

You can't exclude.

So one of the side effects of everybody only knowing Nazi Germany, that one period of history and then applying it is that anything remotely exclusionary or suggesting closing things down rather than opening up endlessly becomes suspicious.

And so any turn back from an overcorrection becomes a slippery slope to fascism.

So you can have a perfectly reasonable tax suggestion, but because it starts toward encouraging women to have children, they just envision it careering off into... Yeah, that's interesting, I suppose, that

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think as well with

a lot of the criticism toward my book and just in general with conservatives who talk about these things is that a lot of these women will not have come across a conservative leaning view ever by accident.

So I'm constantly coming across liberal assumptions on things because it is the culture.