Sasha, don’t forget that Hillary Clinton also betrayed women when she called Bill’s other women (Monica Lewensky et al) bimbos.That is when she lost my respect. I can’t understand how she has ever been allowed to be held up as a defender of women.
For sure. I am old enough to remember when she went by Hilary Clinton, then Hilary Rodham Clinton, then back to Clinton. She’s fooling just enough people though. Ugh. She’s the worst!
Exactly what I was going to say. She loathed women and it was obvious. And the "feminists" and NOW showed their true colors that they were about power and "the right" President, never about women. It was such a realization and such a disappointment having considered myself feminist all of my life up until then.
I know, they only want women to hold higher political office if they are Democrats. Republican women need not apply. Same with with SCOTUS justices.
A perfect example of this was back when Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Court. The Girl Scouts of America posted something congratulating her. They immediately got blowback for it from the woke mobs, and were forced to issue an apology.
How ridiculous. An organization created to empower girls isn't even allowed to recognize the appointment of a woman to the highest court in the nation because she's allegedly not liberal enough. They shouldn't have caved.
The Left doesn't give a shit about women or putting them in positions of power if they don't toe the dogmatic line.
One more thing about HRC…does anyone else remember her saying that the former klansman turned senator asked her if she was a “show horse or a work horse?”…and she enthusiastically declared she was a “work horse!”?
She always wanted to be the show horse that Bill chased, but she wasn’t and isn’t. She’s a bitter pill of working for her worth instead of inherently knowing her worth as a woman. Whatever wave of feminism she was part of, she is so deep that it’s all she has.
I hope this makes sense and everyone understands my thought train here!
She was never a real feminist (one who fought for the ERA).
In 2007, campaigning against Obama, she told a story about her work with NOW in the early 1980s that I knew was a lie. I had been there - she was not.
At first, I thought my memory could be faulty - so I looked it up (back when the internet was not heavily controlled by the thought police).
Other feminists were saying the same thing - “Hillary lied!”
Other women, those I had known, those who were renowned but whom I had never met, came out with even more information about her deceptions. Turned out, the only woman she ever fought to advance was herself.
I knew Hillary was the devil long before Donald Trump ran for office.
All I remember is too many otherwise conservative women voted for Hillary because "it was her turn." Hillary Clinton's history of personal and official malfeasance should've made her unable to run for anything.
No one likes to admit it for fear of being offensive to those that can't have kids or don't want kids, but yes, looking into the eyes of your baby makes it all make sense. I wish the experience for every young woman I meet, but of course, never say so
Why don't you say so? Speak up. Say you believe they are making a rash decision that will cause them pain in the long run. That is not rude. It's just true. You may bring about the life of a future genius by speaking now. Once the tubes are tied, it is too late.
Two women who are kids of my friends openly "brag" about not wanting kids. "The planet doesn't need more kids." "Who can afford to have kids?" (they are both well healed.) We need to turn the ridicule to those that don't want kids, men and women. My cousin's two boys around age 30 both had vasectomies with the blessings of their future brides. I was flabbergasted. But mostly just sad for them falling for leftist bullshit. Narcissistic and selfish is not a good look. And as has been said, once they see that baby they will thank God they changed their mind.
I personally have not found ridicule to be effectively persuasive. Adults will just have their vasectomies and not tell me. I live my best life and credit my kids as much as possible, loving them through their ‘stages’ as they try on different cultural attitudes. And I have been blessed to see them and their most stridently anti-children friends come around. I am hopeful the trends are changing.
Feminist in particular have made stay at home mom's a focus of ridicule. Ridicule has many forms. I want the shift from "What?! you don't want a career?" to "What?!, you aren't going to have children?"
Also, we already have a culture. Leftists have changed that, making things okay that are not okay. For instance, parents who drive their kids to the doctor to get their genitals cut out. There is no culture that thinks that is positive. Keeping the border closed. Just a fact of life of every country in the world until Dems decided we needed open borders. We are now paying the price. Letting criminals out of jail is another fantastic legacy from our former cadaver president.
The social value of people with kids is much greater than two sterilized adults trying to invent their own facts and culture.
We are in the beginning of population collapse. European countries are shrinking, Japan is really shrinking, losing 650k people a year and growing. And the US is shrinking if not for open borders.
Of course it's your place. That's how a stable, successful culture operates. It is not full of namby pambism. When some crazy shit is happening you can feel free to speak up. You don't have to just observe as others "try on different cultures." These new cultures include open marriages, polyamorous, bisexual, and people who care more about animals than people. If you saw open racism, you would not jump in?
Our sons both have children. Our daughter does not. Both our boys admit they never really grew up until having kids. While I love her, our daughter is very self-centered and I attribute that to never having had to care completely for someone other than herself. In a similar way, out of five siblings in my husband's family, we're they only ones with kids. These people do live more leisurely lives as they get older I think they are starting to see there won't be anyone there for them. All of them expect our kids to take care of them. I know that when my Mom was in assisted living, I had to step up to make sure she got the help needed. I wonder if these childless couples heading into their 70's have someone to intervene.
They will pay property taxes forever without the benefit of free public school. They don't care. The first thing is to educate people on population and the lack of the threat of overpopulation which has been a card played by leftist for decades. The population is imploding outside Africa. Kids, as Julian Simon observed are "The Ultimate Resource."
Did you know the DNA of every baby you've carried floats around in your brain? I sometimes wonder if babies who have been aborted by women who cited inconvenience as a reason haunt those women.
Hillary Clinton won’t be remembered in 50 years. She is of no historical importance. When reading about the 2016 election people will only remember one thing, “basket of deplorables”. She’d make a great villain in history if she actually accomplished anything, but she never did.
That was beautiful. Some days I get depressed and think about how there is no justice in this world, then I remember 2016 when not a single journalist or paper thought she could lose, she had so much money to win and yet the American voter came through.
Father’s Day is coming up. You don’t need to make a big fuss about it. Just remember dads feel much the same way about their kids as do moms and feminists have been deprecating the role of dads for a long time in their campaign to abolish the nuclear family. You too Sasha, when you make these empowering statements about moms you too need to think about dads.
As we get older, I think our kids are actually closer to my husband than to me. It may be because he tolerates more of their nonsense than I do. But then again, I had to be the tough cop when they were growing up because my husband traveled on business two weeks a month. Old habits are hard to break.
I’m happy for your children that you feel this way and I have tried to raise my boy to value the nuclear family. There are great dads out there! But as a woman, I can only speak to my experience as a mother.
Can't say enough bad things about Hillary-and you are right no one will remember this feckless and devious politician 50 years from now, except as a footnote.
By all accounts by those who were in the White House when she was First ”Lady”, she was a nightmare to be around as well. Feared by all, foul mouthed, angry and tyrannical. No surprise. There has never been any doubt that Bill did as he was told, period. This was known from the early days in Arkansas…Hillary held the whip.
My brother worked for a CBS affiliate out of Baton Rouge when Bill was governor. My brother would lunch with the political reporters and they said the University of Arkansas at the time issued a warning to coeds to never ever get in the governor's limo. I don't know if it's true or not, but my uncle worked in his administration and he never let his daughters anywhere near him.
Because I read history daily. Not pop history. Academic history. Until you get into the esoteric study of one election, no one knows who the losers were.
No one will know she was Secretary of State unless they are studying failed policy.
She was just another Senator. Name a Senator from a century ago. Name Zachary Taylor’s First Lady.
It’s not the position you held, it’s what you accomplished that gets you written about. The only thing she accomplished was showing us the true face of the Democratic Party. Everything else is just trivia. Look up the definition of trivia.
And when you examine how she was afforded all of those ‘so called’ accomplishments, you reveal her evil corruption runs deep. Sorry to say, she tainted every single position she held.
She and her staff did destroy devices owned by the Federal government which were subpoenaed by the court. She also commissioned the Steele Dossier. And those are things we know she did.
-Why didn’t she run for senator in her home state of Arkansas? Because she would have lost. They had enough of the Clintons at that point.
-She wasn’t nominated by her party. Her party pushed aside Bernie because he was a man and installed her as the candidate, just like they did in 2024 with the other woman to lose the presidential election. The “first female person of color” to lose. Double letter score loser!
-First woman to lose the presidential election.
Maybe, just maybe people saw through the scam of voting based on sex and not the two losers positions and abilities.
Congratulations for being an apologist for the awful evilness that is Hillary Clinton.
He approved the dropping of the bomb, he fired MacArthur, he spent most of his life living modestly due to a failed business which he insisted on paying off.
My uncle was in the room when the strategy was being planned-he was a commander and on Iwo Jima-the losses on the beach were projected at a million. At the time almost every home town had streets where two or more young men never came home. Truman knew they had to end it and this was the only way to do it. A year after that, my Dad was stationed in Nagasaki and Sasebo. The found underground submarine ports in the works and rogue Japanese military were still shooting after the bomb was dropped. Go look up John Hershey's "Hiroshima" or "Brave Men" by Ernie Pyle for first hand accounts.
I’m amazed at the thought and coordination it takes to create a post like this one I just read. After mastering this ability covering Hollywood and the Oscars you give your subscribers a brilliant assessment of the gender affirming care issue and the consequences it brings, harming girls and women as forgotten victims of far left ideology. Sasha, you are a great mom and a best poster on Substack.
The weird thing about Atwood is she got the idea for the costumes while visiting her diplomat father in Afghanistan and the projected it on Christians. Another example of hatred from the Left.
Sorry no awards here. I’m just a humble but voracious reader. I heard so much about her, I read 4 of her books hoping it would get better, I really wanted to like her. But, to me at least, she just came across as simple and not terribly thoughtful. I just expressing my opinion here. But I’m glad she has such a fan boy/girl!
I've certainly enjoyed several of her novels. Surfacing, for example if memorary serves correct, is fascinating in terms of the extraordinary detail she provides regarding the psyche of her lead character. Perhaps more of a "surface" read is preferred by some. To each his own I guess. I wouildn't say I'm a fan boy.
As an aside, I met her a couple of times courtesy of Charlie Pachter, an awarded artist, who collaberated with her on the drawing part in The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Once was a book signing and another time, at a music performance in Toronto during intermission. She was extremely warm andkind both times. Charlie, on the other hand! A local Toronto "celebrity" who fancied himself a player and as such was full of himself. I felt a surge of empathy for Margaret, who by then was a true celebrity and world reknowned, for having to put up with such a bore. He was someone I knew well - had been in his home, out for dinner, at various art performances. I was next in line to get myh book signed by him. As I approached, he was engaged in a conversation. He didn't look at me once, asked me my name, signed it without even as much as a glance. I was tempted to toss in the garbage in front of him. Thankfully, Magaret, who didn't know, was much nicer.
By the way, I've never read a Booker prize winning book that I through was bad. As I've said, she's one of the very few who has won two. I used to keep an eye on winners and read them.
Additionally, she seems closer to a Nobel prize than a certain someone else.
Margaret Atwood has long been considered a strong contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but she has never won it, and the Nobel Committee does not publicly disclose its shortlist or deliberations for 50 years. However, several indicators suggest she has come close:
1. Critical and Global Acclaim
Atwood's work—especially The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake, and The Testaments—has received sustained international recognition for decades. Her blend of literary artistry, political critique, and feminist insight aligns well with the kind of writers often honored by the Nobel.
2. Major Awards
She has won nearly every major English-language literary award, including:
- Booker Prize (twice, in 2000 and 2019)
- Governor General’s Award
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- PEN Pinter Prize
- Franz Kafka Prize (often seen as a Nobel harbinger)
These accolades place her in the same league as many past Nobel laureates.
3. Nobel Speculation and Betting Markets
Atwood is regularly listed as a top contender by literary critics, scholars, and Nobel betting markets, especially in the last two decades. She was a frontrunner in 2019 and again in 2022.
4. Her Themes Align with Nobel Values
The Nobel often rewards writers whose work addresses social justice, human rights, and political oppression—central to much of Atwood's fiction and nonfiction.
While we won’t know for decades whether she was officially shortlisted, based on her stature, themes, and consistent speculation, it’s very likely she has come close.
To pronouce her a bad writer risks curiosity about who you would consider a good one.
Kind of wondering why you know so much about all these awards. You sound very ivory tower to me. What do you do if I might ask?
And thank you for asking, let me think of some of my recent books that a really enjoyed. ( not sure you will really take me seriously though since I don’t like Atwood) I have enjoyed Isabella Allende with my daughter. Also finally read the Alchemist which I thought was just a treasure I know I will read again. Barbara kingsolver is fun although nothing recent approaches her poisenwood Bible. My classic go to’s Tolstoy and F Scott (one of my favorite alcoholics! ) and Tolkien so distracting with his beautiful phrasing I forget about the story. I could go on but as you can see, I read for pleasure and honestly I don’t think my values align well with the Nobel and other award granting people. So it doesn’t really matter to me what they think.
Ryan, you seem so eloquent and well informed. If you ever feel that your party is disingenuous, we would welcome you with open arms. I would. If you follow Sasha, you must know about her experience with the party she trusted and loved, until she realized they weren't who they pretended to be. They hate Trump. That's the motivation for everything they do. They need more. You must agree?
"But I will keep writing about those who fought honorably and bravely. I will remember their names. Not for them a watery end. They will be our heroines for all time. And we will call them women."
I am a man but I immediately click on Sasha's Substack posts when I see them in my email and read them (usually twice) just so I can take it all in. It is like Sasha tells it all uncensored because she has no interest in maximising clickbait clicks, but just telling it from the heart of a person who has walked her own walk and that she therefore is going to talk her own talk without apology.
She can use labels like "handmaid" with such insight and dare I say authority that she completely demolishes the leftist narrative of what the term "handmaid" means and redefines it to the degree that you have to say, "I salute you, Ma'am, you are the right stuff!!"
Men who work in the public sector are subjected to pressures to conform to these narratives that seek to make us "feminised" males which I hate to use that term because I understand that in some ways it can be interpreted as derogatory to women. Which is not what I want to do.
But I just want to say to Sasha - you have so much to say that is truly the cutting edge piercing through the darkness and just keep on doing it because I feel that we are about to enter a period where the darkness regroups and pushes back and your voice is going to be needed even more than it has been.
I’d argue one point - I don’t think it’s derogatory to women to say “feminized” males. Just as women can be too masculine, so too can men become insufferably feminine.
I try to be fair minded, but has the liberal male become less masculine than ever before? (Besides when the British Parliament donned wigs in the 17th century.) I was never a feminist, I like men too much, and I never felt cheated as a woman. Go real men!!!
When I read this I was taken back to reading The Rise of the New Puritan's by Noah Rothman. Blind faith is the power they hold over so many people who are self-righteous, pompous and quite literally...blinded by their belief that they are the chosen ones.
Great piece, Sasha. Especially liked your tribute to the importance of mothers. We decided at the outset that having my wife quit job and stay home to raise the kids was best. Never regretted that.
Wrong. Most, if not all, CAN afford to have one bread winner if they make the right choices. Choices mean trade-offs, giving up one thing for another.....maybe it's where you live, the job you have, the streaming services you want, the car you drive, or saving for your retirement.
It's called sacrificing, doing without, putting off immediate gratification for a greater goal.
I stayed home until the children went to school, then worked "mothers hours". We didn't have a phone for a couple years, had one old car, no washer/dryer (cloth diapers washed by hand). We paid the rent, ate simple food, no frills for several years. That was in the 1980s, could be duplicated again.
For once you're right, but you missed the part of sacrificing & putting off immediate gratification for a greater good....you're the one who should return to school. Try taking a class in reading comprehension. Pay attention this time.
You would be surprised, children don't need that many "things" to thrive. They need their parents. They can grow up in a tiny apartment eating canned food, walk to school and have hand me downs, and believe it or not be OK. More ambitious if anything to succeed on their own. HaHa, maybe I am projecting.....
Funny you should say that. Currently, I live in an unincorporated cornfield where we have well water and it costs $2000 a year to join the closest public library.
The internet is free. We grew up with a full set of encyclopedias, and most of us kids read them backwards and forwards a dozen times. Knowledge about most everything became our currency. I wish we'd lived in a cornfield. We had to settle for Nebraska. 🤓
I live in an unincorporated farmland. So there is no Library line in my property taxes. Therefore, if I wanna join the library, I have to pay percentage of the worth of my land.
HL3 certainly didn't mean to challenge your poverty, just trying to share my experience and perspective.
I have lived 'there'. I know how to get health care, clothes, school supplies and food even if I don't have money. And I know how to help other people find resources. Not saying it's ideal but it is pretty hard to starve in the United States if you have any sort of ability to advocate for yourself. (lucky enough to not have drug abuse or mental health issues) Which is not to say it isn't miserable or unfair. Sorry you are going through that.
Thank you for clarification, now I understand your comment better. And i agree your situation is really unfair and awful. Sometimes the way things are set up in this country, it is almost like you are penalized for working to try to bring your family out of poverty I hope your children are alright, sounds like they are lucky to have you in their life.
We were just above the poverty line where we could get certain social assistance. It was very stressful at times because we lived in a very expensive Democrat-run blue state. But we wouldn't have done it differently (well, maybe I could've convinced my husband to move to where there was less expensive real estate, but it would've been a longer drive for him and he already drove a lot for work......that's the only thing I would've changed, if I could go back).
The story is not complete without mentioning J.K. Rowling, brilliant author of Harry Potter who was cancelled and bullied for speaking out against the transgender cult.
At an anniversary reunion for the cast of the Harry Potter movies, she was not even invited.
Yes! I love that she has never strayed from her beliefs and has never apologized for them despite all the hate thrown at her. The Harry Potter books re-introduced a generation to reading, a wonderful byproduct of her success. I think I'll re-read them yet again!
She funded the recent court case in the UK that defined men and women in a sane way. She is Queen of the TERFs. Hard to tell how many there are since most have been silenced as Sasha says but she has fu money.
They have tried to cancel her, they hate her strong position on gender affirming surgeries, and trans-men in woman's sports. I applaud her. Remember how fickle they are. They almost started worshipping Elon again!
The problem for Democrats is that they've built an absolute position on trans issues that cannot be moderated.
While it may be lunacy to declare that transwomen are identical to actual women, it is even more silly to suggest that they are identical to women *except* when it comes to athletics.
It used to be silly dark feminist fiction, .... until we started living in it today, a leftist dystopian nightmare manifested by the left in their lunge for power. Lie, cheat and steal is all leftists have because their ideas suck.
So true ... super-woke feminist Rebecca Solnit parroted the media's lies on covid / vaccines, and called the unvaccinated "Typhoid Mary". She regards the right wing as subhuman cruel neanderthals, and her followers all agree.
Love Jamie Reed (gender clinic whistleblower) and Cori Cohn (transexual who regrets chopping his penis off at age 19 without informed consent, and works to save children from the "born in the wrong body" cult). They share a podcast called Informed Dissent that I listen to every week ~ https://informeddissentpodcast.substack.com/
Sasha, don’t forget that Hillary Clinton also betrayed women when she called Bill’s other women (Monica Lewensky et al) bimbos.That is when she lost my respect. I can’t understand how she has ever been allowed to be held up as a defender of women.
For sure. I am old enough to remember when she went by Hilary Clinton, then Hilary Rodham Clinton, then back to Clinton. She’s fooling just enough people though. Ugh. She’s the worst!
It's no wonder Bill lives most of the time in Little Rock. He's probably terrified of her.
One of the most evil women on the planet.
Exactly what I was going to say. She loathed women and it was obvious. And the "feminists" and NOW showed their true colors that they were about power and "the right" President, never about women. It was such a realization and such a disappointment having considered myself feminist all of my life up until then.
We need a new term for feminist. "Feminist" is ruined and is roughly translated "Angry Lesbian."
I know, they only want women to hold higher political office if they are Democrats. Republican women need not apply. Same with with SCOTUS justices.
A perfect example of this was back when Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Court. The Girl Scouts of America posted something congratulating her. They immediately got blowback for it from the woke mobs, and were forced to issue an apology.
How ridiculous. An organization created to empower girls isn't even allowed to recognize the appointment of a woman to the highest court in the nation because she's allegedly not liberal enough. They shouldn't have caved.
The Left doesn't give a shit about women or putting them in positions of power if they don't toe the dogmatic line.
I did not know that about the Girl Scouts. How absurd.
One more thing about HRC…does anyone else remember her saying that the former klansman turned senator asked her if she was a “show horse or a work horse?”…and she enthusiastically declared she was a “work horse!”?
She always wanted to be the show horse that Bill chased, but she wasn’t and isn’t. She’s a bitter pill of working for her worth instead of inherently knowing her worth as a woman. Whatever wave of feminism she was part of, she is so deep that it’s all she has.
I hope this makes sense and everyone understands my thought train here!
She was never a real feminist (one who fought for the ERA).
In 2007, campaigning against Obama, she told a story about her work with NOW in the early 1980s that I knew was a lie. I had been there - she was not.
At first, I thought my memory could be faulty - so I looked it up (back when the internet was not heavily controlled by the thought police).
Other feminists were saying the same thing - “Hillary lied!”
Other women, those I had known, those who were renowned but whom I had never met, came out with even more information about her deceptions. Turned out, the only woman she ever fought to advance was herself.
I knew Hillary was the devil long before Donald Trump ran for office.
All I remember is too many otherwise conservative women voted for Hillary because "it was her turn." Hillary Clinton's history of personal and official malfeasance should've made her unable to run for anything.
She stands for nothing but herself
I thought she was more Cluster F---
“If babies don’t matter then mothers don’t matter. If mothers don’t matter, then civilization collapses.” Sasha, that sent chills down my spine.
No one likes to admit it for fear of being offensive to those that can't have kids or don't want kids, but yes, looking into the eyes of your baby makes it all make sense. I wish the experience for every young woman I meet, but of course, never say so
Why don't you say so? Speak up. Say you believe they are making a rash decision that will cause them pain in the long run. That is not rude. It's just true. You may bring about the life of a future genius by speaking now. Once the tubes are tied, it is too late.
Two women who are kids of my friends openly "brag" about not wanting kids. "The planet doesn't need more kids." "Who can afford to have kids?" (they are both well healed.) We need to turn the ridicule to those that don't want kids, men and women. My cousin's two boys around age 30 both had vasectomies with the blessings of their future brides. I was flabbergasted. But mostly just sad for them falling for leftist bullshit. Narcissistic and selfish is not a good look. And as has been said, once they see that baby they will thank God they changed their mind.
I personally have not found ridicule to be effectively persuasive. Adults will just have their vasectomies and not tell me. I live my best life and credit my kids as much as possible, loving them through their ‘stages’ as they try on different cultural attitudes. And I have been blessed to see them and their most stridently anti-children friends come around. I am hopeful the trends are changing.
Feminist in particular have made stay at home mom's a focus of ridicule. Ridicule has many forms. I want the shift from "What?! you don't want a career?" to "What?!, you aren't going to have children?"
Also, we already have a culture. Leftists have changed that, making things okay that are not okay. For instance, parents who drive their kids to the doctor to get their genitals cut out. There is no culture that thinks that is positive. Keeping the border closed. Just a fact of life of every country in the world until Dems decided we needed open borders. We are now paying the price. Letting criminals out of jail is another fantastic legacy from our former cadaver president.
The social value of people with kids is much greater than two sterilized adults trying to invent their own facts and culture.
We are in the beginning of population collapse. European countries are shrinking, Japan is really shrinking, losing 650k people a year and growing. And the US is shrinking if not for open borders.
Real feminists, in my humble opinion, celebrate choice. Have children, have a career, not my place to make your decision.
Of course it's your place. That's how a stable, successful culture operates. It is not full of namby pambism. When some crazy shit is happening you can feel free to speak up. You don't have to just observe as others "try on different cultures." These new cultures include open marriages, polyamorous, bisexual, and people who care more about animals than people. If you saw open racism, you would not jump in?
Our sons both have children. Our daughter does not. Both our boys admit they never really grew up until having kids. While I love her, our daughter is very self-centered and I attribute that to never having had to care completely for someone other than herself. In a similar way, out of five siblings in my husband's family, we're they only ones with kids. These people do live more leisurely lives as they get older I think they are starting to see there won't be anyone there for them. All of them expect our kids to take care of them. I know that when my Mom was in assisted living, I had to step up to make sure she got the help needed. I wonder if these childless couples heading into their 70's have someone to intervene.
So they instead rely on other people to have kids who will pay for their Social Security.
Fortunately vasectomies are reversible.
They will pay property taxes forever without the benefit of free public school. They don't care. The first thing is to educate people on population and the lack of the threat of overpopulation which has been a card played by leftist for decades. The population is imploding outside Africa. Kids, as Julian Simon observed are "The Ultimate Resource."
I chose to not have children - it was the right choice for me.
My advice to you: Say so! Shout it loud!
Mothers - good mothers - are the most important people in the world! If we had more, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Did you know the DNA of every baby you've carried floats around in your brain? I sometimes wonder if babies who have been aborted by women who cited inconvenience as a reason haunt those women.
Same here!
Hillary Clinton won’t be remembered in 50 years. She is of no historical importance. When reading about the 2016 election people will only remember one thing, “basket of deplorables”. She’d make a great villain in history if she actually accomplished anything, but she never did.
I say that as a former Democrat.
That was beautiful. Some days I get depressed and think about how there is no justice in this world, then I remember 2016 when not a single journalist or paper thought she could lose, she had so much money to win and yet the American voter came through.
Father’s Day is coming up. You don’t need to make a big fuss about it. Just remember dads feel much the same way about their kids as do moms and feminists have been deprecating the role of dads for a long time in their campaign to abolish the nuclear family. You too Sasha, when you make these empowering statements about moms you too need to think about dads.
The nuclear family, all components of it, are vitally necessary for the future and stability of society. Moms and dads.
As we get older, I think our kids are actually closer to my husband than to me. It may be because he tolerates more of their nonsense than I do. But then again, I had to be the tough cop when they were growing up because my husband traveled on business two weeks a month. Old habits are hard to break.
I’m happy for your children that you feel this way and I have tried to raise my boy to value the nuclear family. There are great dads out there! But as a woman, I can only speak to my experience as a mother.
Can't say enough bad things about Hillary-and you are right no one will remember this feckless and devious politician 50 years from now, except as a footnote.
Yes that was the year I voted Republican for the first time. I thought she was evil and couldn’t imagine seeing her face daily on the news.
By all accounts by those who were in the White House when she was First ”Lady”, she was a nightmare to be around as well. Feared by all, foul mouthed, angry and tyrannical. No surprise. There has never been any doubt that Bill did as he was told, period. This was known from the early days in Arkansas…Hillary held the whip.
My brother worked for a CBS affiliate out of Baton Rouge when Bill was governor. My brother would lunch with the political reporters and they said the University of Arkansas at the time issued a warning to coeds to never ever get in the governor's limo. I don't know if it's true or not, but my uncle worked in his administration and he never let his daughters anywhere near him.
Living right across the river from Arkansas, we heard many similar stories. Where there’s smoke….
Why do you feel Hillary won't be remembered om 50 years?
Her list of accomplishments include:
- First lady for 8 years
- First First Lady elected to public office (U.S. Senate)
- First woman nominated for president by a major U.S. political party
- First woman to win the popular vote in a U.S. presidential election
She has played key roles in health care, education, women’s rights, diplomacy and national security.
Because I read history daily. Not pop history. Academic history. Until you get into the esoteric study of one election, no one knows who the losers were.
No one will know she was Secretary of State unless they are studying failed policy.
She was just another Senator. Name a Senator from a century ago. Name Zachary Taylor’s First Lady.
It’s not the position you held, it’s what you accomplished that gets you written about. The only thing she accomplished was showing us the true face of the Democratic Party. Everything else is just trivia. Look up the definition of trivia.
She won't be remembered by any of us here in 50 years because we'll be dead and the mind doesn't work too well at that point.
And when you examine how she was afforded all of those ‘so called’ accomplishments, you reveal her evil corruption runs deep. Sorry to say, she tainted every single position she held.
I reveal her evil corruption runs deep? How precisely?
She and her staff did destroy devices owned by the Federal government which were subpoenaed by the court. She also commissioned the Steele Dossier. And those are things we know she did.
-Why didn’t she run for senator in her home state of Arkansas? Because she would have lost. They had enough of the Clintons at that point.
-She wasn’t nominated by her party. Her party pushed aside Bernie because he was a man and installed her as the candidate, just like they did in 2024 with the other woman to lose the presidential election. The “first female person of color” to lose. Double letter score loser!
-First woman to lose the presidential election.
Maybe, just maybe people saw through the scam of voting based on sex and not the two losers positions and abilities.
Congratulations for being an apologist for the awful evilness that is Hillary Clinton.
Oh Sarah, really. now.
Without a web search, tell me three things about Harry Truman.
He approved the dropping of the bomb, he fired MacArthur, he spent most of his life living modestly due to a failed business which he insisted on paying off.
Truman is a pretty significant figure.
Do Coolidge or Bryant.
My uncle was in the room when the strategy was being planned-he was a commander and on Iwo Jima-the losses on the beach were projected at a million. At the time almost every home town had streets where two or more young men never came home. Truman knew they had to end it and this was the only way to do it. A year after that, my Dad was stationed in Nagasaki and Sasebo. The found underground submarine ports in the works and rogue Japanese military were still shooting after the bomb was dropped. Go look up John Hershey's "Hiroshima" or "Brave Men" by Ernie Pyle for first hand accounts.
Bryant, for a more appropriate comparison of legacy.
I have never met another human being my age or younger (except my husband) who knew a thing about his illustrious life or career.
Worked in a men's wear store, beholden to Boss Pendergast in KC, artilleryman in WWI
A haberdasher from Independence MO.
VP to FDR.
Incinerated 250k men women and children with nuclear bombs.
I'm a little bid older JD
Really only a matter of knowing history. Age has nothing to do with it.
it helps if you lived it...
Without a web search, tell me three things about squirrel dad.
The squirrel was named Peanut.
They lived in NY.
5 different agencies were involved in confiscating the squirrel.
Your hero worship aside, being forgotten is the best that HRC can really hope for. If history does remember her, it won't be kindly.
Squirrel Dad dropped two bombs on Japan ending WWII.
I’m amazed at the thought and coordination it takes to create a post like this one I just read. After mastering this ability covering Hollywood and the Oscars you give your subscribers a brilliant assessment of the gender affirming care issue and the consequences it brings, harming girls and women as forgotten victims of far left ideology. Sasha, you are a great mom and a best poster on Substack.
Three cheers.
I agree David! She is brilliant.
Sasha, you see so clearly. Thanks, as always.
It's true freedom when you throw off the shackles of a cult and start to look at the world without rose colored glasses.
The journey Sasha has been on....should be pursued by every person in America.
The weird thing about Atwood is she got the idea for the costumes while visiting her diplomat father in Afghanistan and the projected it on Christians. Another example of hatred from the Left.
She is such a bad writer, I don't get it
She's such an awful writer that she's failed to win any awards except the these few:
Governor General's Award, 1966, 1985
Toronto Book Awards, 1977, 1989
Companion of the Order of Canada, 1981
Guggenheim fellowship, 1981
Los Angeles Times Fiction Award, 1986
American Humanist Association Humanist of the Year, 1987
Nebula Award, 1986 and Prometheus Award, 1987 and 2020 nominations, both science fiction awards.
Arthur C. Clarke Award for best Science Fiction, 1987
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1988
Canadian Booksellers Association Author of the Year, 1989
Outstanding Canadian Award – Armenian Community Centre of Toronto, 1989
Order of Ontario, 1990
Trillium Book Award, 1991, 1993, 1995
Giller Prize, 1996
Government of France's Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1994
Helmerich Award, 1999, by the Tulsa Library Trust.
Booker Prize, 2000, 2019... only five authors have won the Booker Prize more than once - Atwood is the most recent double winner
Hammett Prize, 2000
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, 2007
Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, 2008
Fellow Royal Society of Literature, 2010
Nelly Sachs Prize, Germany, 2010
Dan David Prize, Israel, 2010
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Canada, 2012
Los Angeles Times Book Prize "Innovator's Award", 2012
Royalty Society of Literature's "Companions of Literature" award, 2012
Audie Award for Fiction, 2013
Gold medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, 2015
Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, 2015
Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, 2016
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016
PEN Pinter Prize, 2016
Tähtivaeltaja Award 2016, 2020
Franz Kafka Prize, Czech Republic, 2017
St. Louis Literary Award, 2017
Aurora Awards, 2017
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Germany, 2017
Lorne Pierce Medal, 2018
Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, 2019
Goodreads Choice Awards, 2013, 2019, 2020
The Center for Fiction, 2019
Galaxy Award, China, 2019
Dayton Literary Peace Prize, 2020
British Book Awards, 2020
Kurd Laßwitz Award, 2020
Australian Book Industry Awards, 2020
British Academy President's Medal, 2020
Emerson-Thoreau Medal, 2020
Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Hitchens Prize, 2022
Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award
Nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series as The Handmaid's Tale's producer in 2018, 2020, and 2021.
She's received a couple honorary degrees as well including:
Trent University, 1973
Queen's University, 1974
Concordia University, 1979
Smith College, 1982
University of Toronto, 1983
University of Waterloo, 1985
University of Guelph, 1985
Mount Holyoke College, 1985
Victoria College, 1987
Université de Montréal, 1991
University of Leeds, 1994
McMaster University, 1996
Lakehead University, 1998
University of Oxford, 1998
Algoma University, 2001
University of Cambridge, 2001
Dartmouth College, 2004
Harvard University, 2004
Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2005
National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011
Ryerson University, 2012
Royal Military College of Canada (LLD), November 16, 2012
University of Athens, 2013
University of Edinburgh, 2014
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2017
University of St Andrews, 2023
Just out of curiosity, what awards have you received?
You list a bunch of ideological self-pats-on-back. You might as well call Greta Thunberg a climate expert.
Like the "noble" peace prize Trump desires more than even a statueque long legged Russian?
She's Slovenian.
the community organizer won a Nobel peace prize for doing literally nothing
Sorry no awards here. I’m just a humble but voracious reader. I heard so much about her, I read 4 of her books hoping it would get better, I really wanted to like her. But, to me at least, she just came across as simple and not terribly thoughtful. I just expressing my opinion here. But I’m glad she has such a fan boy/girl!
I've certainly enjoyed several of her novels. Surfacing, for example if memorary serves correct, is fascinating in terms of the extraordinary detail she provides regarding the psyche of her lead character. Perhaps more of a "surface" read is preferred by some. To each his own I guess. I wouildn't say I'm a fan boy.
As an aside, I met her a couple of times courtesy of Charlie Pachter, an awarded artist, who collaberated with her on the drawing part in The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Once was a book signing and another time, at a music performance in Toronto during intermission. She was extremely warm andkind both times. Charlie, on the other hand! A local Toronto "celebrity" who fancied himself a player and as such was full of himself. I felt a surge of empathy for Margaret, who by then was a true celebrity and world reknowned, for having to put up with such a bore. He was someone I knew well - had been in his home, out for dinner, at various art performances. I was next in line to get myh book signed by him. As I approached, he was engaged in a conversation. He didn't look at me once, asked me my name, signed it without even as much as a glance. I was tempted to toss in the garbage in front of him. Thankfully, Magaret, who didn't know, was much nicer.
By the way, I've never read a Booker prize winning book that I through was bad. As I've said, she's one of the very few who has won two. I used to keep an eye on winners and read them.
Additionally, she seems closer to a Nobel prize than a certain someone else.
Margaret Atwood has long been considered a strong contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but she has never won it, and the Nobel Committee does not publicly disclose its shortlist or deliberations for 50 years. However, several indicators suggest she has come close:
1. Critical and Global Acclaim
Atwood's work—especially The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake, and The Testaments—has received sustained international recognition for decades. Her blend of literary artistry, political critique, and feminist insight aligns well with the kind of writers often honored by the Nobel.
2. Major Awards
She has won nearly every major English-language literary award, including:
- Booker Prize (twice, in 2000 and 2019)
- Governor General’s Award
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- PEN Pinter Prize
- Franz Kafka Prize (often seen as a Nobel harbinger)
These accolades place her in the same league as many past Nobel laureates.
3. Nobel Speculation and Betting Markets
Atwood is regularly listed as a top contender by literary critics, scholars, and Nobel betting markets, especially in the last two decades. She was a frontrunner in 2019 and again in 2022.
4. Her Themes Align with Nobel Values
The Nobel often rewards writers whose work addresses social justice, human rights, and political oppression—central to much of Atwood's fiction and nonfiction.
While we won’t know for decades whether she was officially shortlisted, based on her stature, themes, and consistent speculation, it’s very likely she has come close.
To pronouce her a bad writer risks curiosity about who you would consider a good one.
Kind of wondering why you know so much about all these awards. You sound very ivory tower to me. What do you do if I might ask?
And thank you for asking, let me think of some of my recent books that a really enjoyed. ( not sure you will really take me seriously though since I don’t like Atwood) I have enjoyed Isabella Allende with my daughter. Also finally read the Alchemist which I thought was just a treasure I know I will read again. Barbara kingsolver is fun although nothing recent approaches her poisenwood Bible. My classic go to’s Tolstoy and F Scott (one of my favorite alcoholics! ) and Tolkien so distracting with his beautiful phrasing I forget about the story. I could go on but as you can see, I read for pleasure and honestly I don’t think my values align well with the Nobel and other award granting people. So it doesn’t really matter to me what they think.
Ryan, you seem so eloquent and well informed. If you ever feel that your party is disingenuous, we would welcome you with open arms. I would. If you follow Sasha, you must know about her experience with the party she trusted and loved, until she realized they weren't who they pretended to be. They hate Trump. That's the motivation for everything they do. They need more. You must agree?
Yeah, but can she make a sandwich?
Yeah, but can she make a sandwich?
I saw her eat one once. Does that count?
Oh, my apologies! Left wing awards and academia bestowments are bad. Gotcha.
Yep. Glad you got it.
In high school we studied the works of Manitoba author Margaret Laurence and thankfully not those of that other Canadian Margaret.
Interesting. No one ever talks about that little gem of info!
"But I will keep writing about those who fought honorably and bravely. I will remember their names. Not for them a watery end. They will be our heroines for all time. And we will call them women."
Here is another brave one-- J.K. Rowling.
You both have brilliant, beautiful minds.
(Stops for a hat-tip to JKR!)
Double hat tip.
And both uniquely stand up for truth.
I am a man but I immediately click on Sasha's Substack posts when I see them in my email and read them (usually twice) just so I can take it all in. It is like Sasha tells it all uncensored because she has no interest in maximising clickbait clicks, but just telling it from the heart of a person who has walked her own walk and that she therefore is going to talk her own talk without apology.
She can use labels like "handmaid" with such insight and dare I say authority that she completely demolishes the leftist narrative of what the term "handmaid" means and redefines it to the degree that you have to say, "I salute you, Ma'am, you are the right stuff!!"
Men who work in the public sector are subjected to pressures to conform to these narratives that seek to make us "feminised" males which I hate to use that term because I understand that in some ways it can be interpreted as derogatory to women. Which is not what I want to do.
But I just want to say to Sasha - you have so much to say that is truly the cutting edge piercing through the darkness and just keep on doing it because I feel that we are about to enter a period where the darkness regroups and pushes back and your voice is going to be needed even more than it has been.
Well spoke sir. She is a veritable locomotive headlight cutting through darkness. Unstoppably powerful writing.
Well said!
I’d argue one point - I don’t think it’s derogatory to women to say “feminized” males. Just as women can be too masculine, so too can men become insufferably feminine.
I try to be fair minded, but has the liberal male become less masculine than ever before? (Besides when the British Parliament donned wigs in the 17th century.) I was never a feminist, I like men too much, and I never felt cheated as a woman. Go real men!!!
Feminine in the way of unnaturally expressing concern, empathy or compassion.
When I read this I was taken back to reading The Rise of the New Puritan's by Noah Rothman. Blind faith is the power they hold over so many people who are self-righteous, pompous and quite literally...blinded by their belief that they are the chosen ones.
Remember? "We are the ones we've been waiting for." What an arrogant statement that was.
I’m unsubscribing from some of my Substack commentaries; this column is one reason yours will survive. “Shatter our illusions indeed.” Thank you.
I too have had to thin out some of my substack and other media follows, simply for lack of time and resources. Sasha’s will never be one I cut.
Great piece, Sasha. Especially liked your tribute to the importance of mothers. We decided at the outset that having my wife quit job and stay home to raise the kids was best. Never regretted that.
Wrong. Most, if not all, CAN afford to have one bread winner if they make the right choices. Choices mean trade-offs, giving up one thing for another.....maybe it's where you live, the job you have, the streaming services you want, the car you drive, or saving for your retirement.
It's called sacrificing, doing without, putting off immediate gratification for a greater goal.
I stayed home until the children went to school, then worked "mothers hours". We didn't have a phone for a couple years, had one old car, no washer/dryer (cloth diapers washed by hand). We paid the rent, ate simple food, no frills for several years. That was in the 1980s, could be duplicated again.
Some policy changes by the government would help too. That is the promise of Trump and especially Vance.
Like our parents did...
Thanks 234; you explained it better than me.
It is called focusing on what is important, without distraction.
Yes!
We had 4 children
1 car
Home cooked meals
Never went to Disney World
It’s mostly about the choices made
if if if.....if my aunt had balls, he/she/they/them/it/whatever would be my uncle, or whatever.
You need 40k+, learn a trade?... go back to school, but pay attention this time. The tax payers as always, will pick up the tab.
For once you're right, but you missed the part of sacrificing & putting off immediate gratification for a greater good....you're the one who should return to school. Try taking a class in reading comprehension. Pay attention this time.
You would be surprised, children don't need that many "things" to thrive. They need their parents. They can grow up in a tiny apartment eating canned food, walk to school and have hand me downs, and believe it or not be OK. More ambitious if anything to succeed on their own. HaHa, maybe I am projecting.....
Library cards are free. So is tap water.
Funny you should say that. Currently, I live in an unincorporated cornfield where we have well water and it costs $2000 a year to join the closest public library.
The internet is free. We grew up with a full set of encyclopedias, and most of us kids read them backwards and forwards a dozen times. Knowledge about most everything became our currency. I wish we'd lived in a cornfield. We had to settle for Nebraska. 🤓
Where does it cost you 2k to join a public library?
I live in an unincorporated farmland. So there is no Library line in my property taxes. Therefore, if I wanna join the library, I have to pay percentage of the worth of my land.
HL3 certainly didn't mean to challenge your poverty, just trying to share my experience and perspective.
I have lived 'there'. I know how to get health care, clothes, school supplies and food even if I don't have money. And I know how to help other people find resources. Not saying it's ideal but it is pretty hard to starve in the United States if you have any sort of ability to advocate for yourself. (lucky enough to not have drug abuse or mental health issues) Which is not to say it isn't miserable or unfair. Sorry you are going through that.
Thank you for clarification, now I understand your comment better. And i agree your situation is really unfair and awful. Sometimes the way things are set up in this country, it is almost like you are penalized for working to try to bring your family out of poverty I hope your children are alright, sounds like they are lucky to have you in their life.
We were just above the poverty line where we could get certain social assistance. It was very stressful at times because we lived in a very expensive Democrat-run blue state. But we wouldn't have done it differently (well, maybe I could've convinced my husband to move to where there was less expensive real estate, but it would've been a longer drive for him and he already drove a lot for work......that's the only thing I would've changed, if I could go back).
The story is not complete without mentioning J.K. Rowling, brilliant author of Harry Potter who was cancelled and bullied for speaking out against the transgender cult.
At an anniversary reunion for the cast of the Harry Potter movies, she was not even invited.
Yes! I love that she has never strayed from her beliefs and has never apologized for them despite all the hate thrown at her. The Harry Potter books re-introduced a generation to reading, a wonderful byproduct of her success. I think I'll re-read them yet again!
She funded the recent court case in the UK that defined men and women in a sane way. She is Queen of the TERFs. Hard to tell how many there are since most have been silenced as Sasha says but she has fu money.
They have tried to cancel her, they hate her strong position on gender affirming surgeries, and trans-men in woman's sports. I applaud her. Remember how fickle they are. They almost started worshipping Elon again!
The problem for Democrats is that they've built an absolute position on trans issues that cannot be moderated.
While it may be lunacy to declare that transwomen are identical to actual women, it is even more silly to suggest that they are identical to women *except* when it comes to athletics.
When relativism takes hold, it spreads like wildfire.
I read Handmaid's Tale years ago. I wanted to read it because I kept hearing OMG this is exactly what the Republicans are turning this country to!
Then as I read it I started to realize it's actually the Democrats who could actually do this.
The dystopia is actually quite Islamic.
Exactly, and we've seen who supports Islam.
Leftism is non-religious communism, and Islam is religious communism. They pair just fine.
You might appreciate my podcast on the dangers of Islam here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/soberchristiangentlemanpodcast/p/s2-ep-66-dangers-of-islam-christian?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=31s3eo
It used to be silly dark feminist fiction, .... until we started living in it today, a leftist dystopian nightmare manifested by the left in their lunge for power. Lie, cheat and steal is all leftists have because their ideas suck.
Brilliantly written as usual Sasha. Thank you for fearlessly speaking the truth. God bless you!
So true ... super-woke feminist Rebecca Solnit parroted the media's lies on covid / vaccines, and called the unvaccinated "Typhoid Mary". She regards the right wing as subhuman cruel neanderthals, and her followers all agree.
Love Jamie Reed (gender clinic whistleblower) and Cori Cohn (transexual who regrets chopping his penis off at age 19 without informed consent, and works to save children from the "born in the wrong body" cult). They share a podcast called Informed Dissent that I listen to every week ~ https://informeddissentpodcast.substack.com/
"...holding my child in my arms was the first time any of it made sense."
Indeed. You strip everything away and that is our basic purpose.
Exactly