Full context on your first quote:

> My father was a Vietnam veteran and a lifelong Republican. He liked to say that women belong in the kitchen. I had become an environmental studies professor, a member of the East Coast liberal elite, a daughter he was ashamed to introduce to his friends at the Post.

What, precisely, do you take issue with there?

Sometimes I wonder about how the atomic nature of the web breaks down the relationship between publication and audience.

I have no idea what Noema Magazine is, never heard of it before. Maybe every article is written in the way that you dislike. Maybe… that’s fine. Maybe a diversity in the way people express themselves is a good thing, even if you think specific examples are awful.

I’m quite sure the author didn’t write this for a Hacker News audience. Fine by me.

10 day old account whining about writing voice with no ability to perceive context.

Draw your own conclusions.

There's a lot of insecurity being regurgitated here, it was hard to read.

I think a lot of these kinds of people see themselves as modern (changing with trends) morality warriors.

People like to rewrite their own histories in attempts to distance themselves further than time does. But they just end up bringing them closer.

Why? As far as personal anecdotes go for an article against humans controlling natural growth and the normalized casual cruelty of it, it's pretty dang on the nose.

Color me not shocked that an author that is against killing "weeds" and resents the label grew up in an environment where her own flourishing was someone else's pest to be controlled. No clue why that idea resonated with her.

Not going to solve many problems by alienating half of your audience right out of the gate.

Why would they be alienated? And in any case, why should the writer be aiming to please an imagined demographic audience?

It’s not intended to.