What Should Have Happened to Harrison Butker?
Let's turn this into art, shall we?
Hiiiiii from Virginia. I’m down here for two Hot Sicilian events that we sold out at two bad ass woman-owned bookstores this week, Bards Alley and Birch Tree Books.
I love all indie bookstores, but I especially love the ones run and operated by bad ass women who hustle their booties off to help readers find books they will love.
Keep spreading the word about the Hot Sicilian my friends. Word of mouth from other women is key to keeping the book on shelves and selling throughout the summer. If everyone who loves the book tells two more people to get it an angel gets its wings…..
I am going to keep extending my lifetime paid subscription offer for NEW purchases of Sicilian. You can also buy a copy for friends or just to gift over the summer (I have been giving it away as a hostess gift AND a graduation gift) and I will add anyone you want to the substack (another lovely grad gift :)).
A lot of you have asked me to write my response to the Harrison Butker fiasco today. But so many brilliant ladies have already done that.
Make sure to read Jessica Valenti’s very smart take:
So let’s be very clear about this commencement speech: Butker’s remarks weren’t “fringe” or radical—they’re the law. He was simply saying out loud what Republicans have already codified: that women’s role in this country is to bear children and support men, who are the actual stars of the show.
I also did an episode of UTI with
yesterday on Harrison and trad wives and the direct through line to the political forces that want to subjugate women.But what I can’t stop thinking about is what it had to be like to be a woman in that audience. Sure, some of them probably agreed with Harrison. It was, after all, a conservative Catholic school. But I also imagine a lot of the women were like WTF and HOW DARE HE, but also paralyzed and unsure what to do.
As a fiction writer I get to be something of a wizard and a time machine and a puppeteer. I get to write what I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SEE HAPPEN.
And I just so happen to have a #tradwife murder mystery satire in the works that was just begging for a new scene. So here we go. Meet Marsden Aikner…….he’s about to give a speech at the MomBomb conference “venerating” women and their highest vocations.
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