Anonymous wrote:I align with JH politically in many ways and still find her insufferable. For me it’s not the politics. It’s the way she monetizes everything, including her friends’s birthday party. The way she serves up private family moments for public consumption and capitalistic gain. It’s the shallow fame seeking and the constant name dropping and the bottomless well of self-aggrandizement. That’s where I think she has gone completely off the rails from her earlier years as a writer.
I think her kids are stuck between two very shallow, self-absorbed parents who have engaged in dueling midlife crises for the past few years. Both of the Hatmakers seem to have an unhealthy need to be envied and admired by the invisible masses on the intenet.
Exactly this. I’ve only voted Democrat so it’s not the politics at all that bothers me. It’s the shallow, fake posturing and monetizing “service” to her “tribe” all day, every day.
Dual parent midlife crises nails it! Remember Brandon’s weird Biker Phase?
Jen is so desperate to be liked, admired, and envied.
No one of real self possession and confidence does, though. No one who really knows her. They kind of feel sorry for her. Oh, I know they do.