REPLAY: Toxic Mommy Culture

Allie cracks open “Yesteryear,” a time-travel novel that supposedly crushes the tradwife movement and Christian nationalism. Allie peels back to the progressive motivations behind the fiction, while showing the parallels between the book’s protagonist and Hannah Neeleman, better ...  Show more

Allie’s dad, Ron Simmons, breaks down the controversial L.A. mayoral race where late mail-in ballots propelled socialist councilmember Nithya Raman past Spencer Pratt, sparking fresh election integrity questions from President Trump, Elon Musk, and concerned Americans. Ron also e ...  Show more

It’s easy to write people off as “toxic” and cut them out of your life completely. But have we taken the culture of boundaries too far? Today I read from an article published in The Atlantic entitled “That’s It. You’re Dead to Me.” and discuss the “toxic” phenomenon that millenni ...  Show more

Motherhood is hard, lonely, and exhausting... except, apparently, if you're a momfluencer. Since the mid-2000s, a crop of seemingly perfect, all-knowing mommy goddesses in billowy tunics have emerged on social media—and we can't help but feel that their highly monetizable (often ...  Show more

There is a message perpetuated over and again that sacrifice is synonymous with being a good mother. While there is inherently a degree of surrender that accompanies parenthood, it’s also impossible to nurture our children if we constantly neglect to nurture ourselves. Heather Ch ...  Show more

Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3DzN2Uj My thoughts on postpartum mothers being over prescribed medications to deal with normal emotions and how the toxic mom shaming culture affects our mental health. Plus, Madonna blames 'ageism and mi ...  Show more