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Cindy Schafer's avatar

I noticed mansplaining as well in the comments on one of your pieces about nobody lives off the grid. He called you “honey” and ended with insinuating you know very little due to your age. It was an absolutely stellar example of Boomer hubris and mansplaining. I myself am a boomer and find this type of attitude destructive and arrogant. It seemed very important to him to put you down and shame you. That’s a lot to tolerate. I don’t comment often, but read all your articles and some have been especially poignant and thought-provoking. I hate how mean our society has become.

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Untrickled by Michelle Teheux's avatar

Last year -- almost exactly a year ago -- I had one piece on Medium earn $30K. I am extremely grateful for that, of course. I usually earn less than that all year, so it changed our lives and let us catch up on a lot of unmet needs. But it's been all downhill from there. The current leadership values tech and data science. The writers I love have pretty much all moved elsewhere, often to Substack. The CEO keeps saying people won't pay for writing like mine and others who are writing about politics, memoir, personal experience, etc. Oddly, people on Substack ARE paying for it, though.

I loved reading your work on Medium. It was a loss to the platform when you left.

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