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Wendy Friedman's avatar

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 (Also: candidate for Most Midlife Crisis Man 💀)

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Beth Morris's avatar

might have been my favorite line : )

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Gina Banks's avatar

:)

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Syd Young's avatar

Perfectly stated! Also 👏 on the new WIP!

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Gina Banks's avatar

Editing that WIP as we speak :)

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Beth Morris's avatar

Preach!!

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

I am here for this hot (+ logical + grounded - ha) take. I also have a sneaking suspicion that you might be closer to astronaut status via research for your space romcom, than most of these people, but I digress...

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Gina Banks's avatar

I have learned enough in my research that I would NEVER presume to call myself an astronaut if I'd taken a lil jaunt to the Karman line....

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Alyssa Jarrett's avatar

Have you seen "If You Were the Last?" It's an adorable rom-com with a similar premise as your book, so it might be a good comp!

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Gina Banks's avatar

ohhh I'll look for it. Thanks!

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Mara Williams's avatar

This one hurt. The juxtaposition of feel-good girl power with the degradation of our actual rights.

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Gina Banks's avatar

the cognitive dissonance is huge

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Sophie's avatar

Great title and apt commentary for a situation so bananas I still can’t wrap my head around why anyone thought it was worth the money and environmental impact.

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Gina Banks's avatar

I also can't wrap my head around why they insisted on pushing the narrative that somehow this "mission" was for all women...rather than the six who got to do it. The tunnel vision is...something else.

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Sophie's avatar

Right?! Tell me you’re out of touch with the reality of most (almost all) women without telling me…

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