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Antonia Malchik's avatar

I don’t want to read those other newsletters because, well, been there. But I was also there (as I’m sure they were) long before social media. I keep having this idea for a newsletter essay about how being a woman pretty much anywhere in the world, online or off, is to have your potential, abilities, and full human-ness pre-cancelled to some degree. But then don’t want to because I’m too tired of it all and need that energy to teach my daughter to be stronger than the people who will inevitably say things to her.

Truth be told, I didn’t like Missoula very much. I don’t think it got enough editing! But I appreciated him doing it, and showing up in Missoula for a book launch event. But I appreciated Gwen’s reporting even more :)

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Chris Danforth's avatar

1) Regarding the linked piece, it's been a while since I read something so real and so expertly written that I stopped breathing. Sheesh.

2) I read Missoula when it came out. I was somewhere on the Front Range, and I read it over the course of several sunsets. Hearing those comments from locals about how the town isn't like that reminds me of the old saying "if you're going to ask women about how heinous people are to them, get ready to hear about your friends." I think about that saying all the time.

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