Anne Helen Petersen
Journalist and author of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Writes the newsletter Culture Study, which runs a recurring links-and-recommendations issue.
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Their wordsThis is part of my grand theory of how things ended up so messed up with gender roles converging in the workforce but not at home: part of the source of the workplace gender revolution wasn't feminism or female empowerment, it was necessity.
↗I Promise This Will Change The Way You Think About Partnershipannehelen.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBecause your career is a means for maximizing utility; it's not an end in itself.
↗I Promise This Will Change The Way You Think About Partnershipannehelen.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIn economic terms, if you take an hour and do something you love that enhances your wellbeing, that's just as productive as if you spent an hour earning money so you could then buy something that brought you the same jollies.
↗I Promise This Will Change The Way You Think About Partnershipannehelen.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe expansion of our treatment system did not solve this problem, nor did the punishment of Purdue Pharma.
↗The Scandal of Modern Rehabannehelen.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Short-term 30-day rehab programs may increase the risk of overdose and death for participants.
Their wordsThe reality of these 30-day programs - even the ones with the best of intentions - is that they often fuel relapse. People leave without the support system from which they benefited within rehab, they return to regular life, and they relapse. In fact, someone who completes a 30-day treatment program is much more likely to overdose and die in the year following treatment than someone who failed to complete the program altogether.
↗The Scandal of Modern Rehabannehelen.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThese policies are likely to further marginalize addicted people, and make it that much harder for many of them to escape addiction.
↗The Scandal of Modern Rehabannehelen.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThere are vanishingly few places on the internet where you do that for a large public audience.
↗What a flex, to have curious readers!annehelen.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAnd while I hoped for something approximating that, we had all been directly and indirectly warped by years of Twitter, conditioned to understand the primary purpose of online communication as fight club or political purity policing.
↗What a flex, to have curious readers!annehelen.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsWhen I say exhaustion, I mean it in two ways: first, the term feminism has been exhausted of its meaning - and, insofar as it's deployed in popular culture, its politics.
↗The Great Feminist Exhaustionannehelen.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThere are mortgages and college funds and 401ks in this quadrant, but there's also a lot of student loans and "unused" degrees and credit card debt and the feeling that you're in the "hollow middle class," as maintaining the status quo has come to mean "maintaining a lot of debt."
↗The Great Feminist Exhaustionannehelen.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe fact that so many women are opting to return to this sort of life, or at the very least fetishizing it, underlines just the resilience of the patriarchal status quo.
↗The Great Feminist Exhaustionannehelen.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsAn additional reality is that it will never work if it isn't created by people who are living the same sort of life, with the same sort of fears, as the people you want to reach.
↗The World Has Always Been On Fireannehelen.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI've seen all of those things activate fear centers in people who consider themselves liberal, causing them to act and speak and cling to solutions that aim to conserve their personal and financial status quo.
↗The World Has Always Been On Fireannehelen.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece