Rebecca Traister

And then I went back and I had to sit through the confirmation hearing with Pete Hegseth, where a lot of this stuff about masculinity, strength, weakness, top down, bottom up, these things that we're talking about began to rear their heads.

And then I went back and I had to sit through the confirmation hearing with Pete Hegseth, where a lot of this stuff about masculinity, strength, weakness, top down, bottom up, these things that we're talking about began to rear their heads.

And it was an incredibly, it was more than four hours of listening to just this incredible power play of getting this manifestly incompetent, dangerous, terrifying, menacing man through via a lot of communicative political strategizing around menace and around threat and around like that was happening both inside the room and outside the room. And it was

And it was an incredibly, it was more than four hours of listening to just this incredible power play of getting this manifestly incompetent, dangerous, terrifying, menacing man through via a lot of communicative political strategizing around menace and around threat and around like that was happening both inside the room and outside the room. And it was

And it was an incredibly, it was more than four hours of listening to just this incredible power play of getting this manifestly incompetent, dangerous, terrifying, menacing man through via a lot of communicative political strategizing around menace and around threat and around like that was happening both inside the room and outside the room. And it was

deeply unpleasant and afterwards there was a young reporter who was in the room with me who was clearly shaken and we talked a little bit and then on the on the flight home which was the next day i just started to cry on the flight for no reason there was not a conversation that preceded it i was just on a plane to go back to my house and i cried for the hour and 15 minutes that we were in flight with this poor guy next to me like what's happening with this lady

deeply unpleasant and afterwards there was a young reporter who was in the room with me who was clearly shaken and we talked a little bit and then on the on the flight home which was the next day i just started to cry on the flight for no reason there was not a conversation that preceded it i was just on a plane to go back to my house and i cried for the hour and 15 minutes that we were in flight with this poor guy next to me like what's happening with this lady

deeply unpleasant and afterwards there was a young reporter who was in the room with me who was clearly shaken and we talked a little bit and then on the on the flight home which was the next day i just started to cry on the flight for no reason there was not a conversation that preceded it i was just on a plane to go back to my house and i cried for the hour and 15 minutes that we were in flight with this poor guy next to me like what's happening with this lady

So anyway, there's a lot of things that I just can't stop thinking about. And I don't know if some of my tears come from my own frustration at not being able to untangle them.

So anyway, there's a lot of things that I just can't stop thinking about. And I don't know if some of my tears come from my own frustration at not being able to untangle them.

So anyway, there's a lot of things that I just can't stop thinking about. And I don't know if some of my tears come from my own frustration at not being able to untangle them.

I don't want to sort of force this question on Brittany, but Brittany's work in particular, her academic work about the generation, she's one of the first people whose work I read who made me think about in real time what it is like to be born in a period where your trajectory is backward.

I don't want to sort of force this question on Brittany, but Brittany's work in particular, her academic work about the generation, she's one of the first people whose work I read who made me think about in real time what it is like to be born in a period where your trajectory is backward.

I don't want to sort of force this question on Brittany, but Brittany's work in particular, her academic work about the generation, she's one of the first people whose work I read who made me think about in real time what it is like to be born in a period where your trajectory is backward.

Because we always, we tell a very neat story about the United States in forward motion in which we have just gotten... freer and more equal and better and things have gotten better and the arc of the moral universe has bent toward justice. But we lose so much when we don't look at the periods where in fact things have moved exactly backwards.

Because we always, we tell a very neat story about the United States in forward motion in which we have just gotten... freer and more equal and better and things have gotten better and the arc of the moral universe has bent toward justice. But we lose so much when we don't look at the periods where in fact things have moved exactly backwards.

Because we always, we tell a very neat story about the United States in forward motion in which we have just gotten... freer and more equal and better and things have gotten better and the arc of the moral universe has bent toward justice. But we lose so much when we don't look at the periods where in fact things have moved exactly backwards.

And Britney's academic work, which is very tied to, but distinct from her contemporary political commentary, Traces the generation of black women who were born in an era and whose lifetimes were by the time they were adults, they had fewer rights and freedoms than when they were born.

And Britney's academic work, which is very tied to, but distinct from her contemporary political commentary, Traces the generation of black women who were born in an era and whose lifetimes were by the time they were adults, they had fewer rights and freedoms than when they were born.

And Britney's academic work, which is very tied to, but distinct from her contemporary political commentary, Traces the generation of black women who were born in an era and whose lifetimes were by the time they were adults, they had fewer rights and freedoms than when they were born.