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Jamie Loftus

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4079 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

If you're six places behind, nothing in particular, and want to keep growing your business, it makes sense that they avoid endorsing their often controversial religion. So in most places, I've seen Ballerina Farm classified as a soft advertisement for the church. And for feminists with careers who openly advocate on issues like queer and trans rights and open abortion access,

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

If you're six places behind, nothing in particular, and want to keep growing your business, it makes sense that they avoid endorsing their often controversial religion. So in most places, I've seen Ballerina Farm classified as a soft advertisement for the church. And for feminists with careers who openly advocate on issues like queer and trans rights and open abortion access,

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

I understand why Ballerina Farm's success is triggering. And for people who work on farms that are not bankrolled by JetBlue, the account scans as even more of a performance. And then this past summer, Ballerina Farm has been a popular point of discussion for years with evangelizing followers and snark blogs with readership in the six figures.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

I understand why Ballerina Farm's success is triggering. And for people who work on farms that are not bankrolled by JetBlue, the account scans as even more of a performance. And then this past summer, Ballerina Farm has been a popular point of discussion for years with evangelizing followers and snark blogs with readership in the six figures.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

I understand why Ballerina Farm's success is triggering. And for people who work on farms that are not bankrolled by JetBlue, the account scans as even more of a performance. And then this past summer, Ballerina Farm has been a popular point of discussion for years with evangelizing followers and snark blogs with readership in the six figures.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

But she comes to widespread mainstream attention this past summer when a Times profile written by Megan Agnew suggested that beneath this content was a very disturbing dynamic. Main takeaways from the article include... Hannah and Daniel said they met on a plane.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

But she comes to widespread mainstream attention this past summer when a Times profile written by Megan Agnew suggested that beneath this content was a very disturbing dynamic. Main takeaways from the article include... Hannah and Daniel said they met on a plane.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

But she comes to widespread mainstream attention this past summer when a Times profile written by Megan Agnew suggested that beneath this content was a very disturbing dynamic. Main takeaways from the article include... Hannah and Daniel said they met on a plane.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

It turns out this was a plane that Daniel's father owned, and he specifically requested to be sat on said plane beside Hannah, making it the most expensive predatory meet-cute I've ever heard of. Hannah wanted to date for a year in order to maintain her education at Juilliard, but was overruled by Daniel.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

It turns out this was a plane that Daniel's father owned, and he specifically requested to be sat on said plane beside Hannah, making it the most expensive predatory meet-cute I've ever heard of. Hannah wanted to date for a year in order to maintain her education at Juilliard, but was overruled by Daniel.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

It turns out this was a plane that Daniel's father owned, and he specifically requested to be sat on said plane beside Hannah, making it the most expensive predatory meet-cute I've ever heard of. Hannah wanted to date for a year in order to maintain her education at Juilliard, but was overruled by Daniel.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

She was engaged a month later and was married and pregnant soon after that, all before graduation. There are, of course, people working on Ballerina Farm and for their company. They were just never acknowledged as existing in the content. However, Hannah is not allowed to have nannies to help her at home. And the article implies that this is Daniel's choice.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

She was engaged a month later and was married and pregnant soon after that, all before graduation. There are, of course, people working on Ballerina Farm and for their company. They were just never acknowledged as existing in the content. However, Hannah is not allowed to have nannies to help her at home. And the article implies that this is Daniel's choice.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

She was engaged a month later and was married and pregnant soon after that, all before graduation. There are, of course, people working on Ballerina Farm and for their company. They were just never acknowledged as existing in the content. However, Hannah is not allowed to have nannies to help her at home. And the article implies that this is Daniel's choice.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

And he describes Hannah as becoming so exhausted by caring for the eight children that she will sometimes collapse for a week at a time, which plays into the Mormon and just generally fundamentalist belief that women's suffering is virtuous. But to a modern audience, hearing this dynamic within such a wealthy family felt fucked up.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

And he describes Hannah as becoming so exhausted by caring for the eight children that she will sometimes collapse for a week at a time, which plays into the Mormon and just generally fundamentalist belief that women's suffering is virtuous. But to a modern audience, hearing this dynamic within such a wealthy family felt fucked up.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

And he describes Hannah as becoming so exhausted by caring for the eight children that she will sometimes collapse for a week at a time, which plays into the Mormon and just generally fundamentalist belief that women's suffering is virtuous. But to a modern audience, hearing this dynamic within such a wealthy family felt fucked up.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Hannah and Daniel did not believe in voluntary abortion, something their content suggested but never stated, and that Hannah's identity prior to their marriage, and especially her relationship with dance, had been slowly choked out by ballerina farm and the Mormon lifestyle.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Hannah and Daniel did not believe in voluntary abortion, something their content suggested but never stated, and that Hannah's identity prior to their marriage, and especially her relationship with dance, had been slowly choked out by ballerina farm and the Mormon lifestyle.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

Hannah and Daniel did not believe in voluntary abortion, something their content suggested but never stated, and that Hannah's identity prior to their marriage, and especially her relationship with dance, had been slowly choked out by ballerina farm and the Mormon lifestyle.