The Maine Millennial

@mainemillennial.bsky.social

She/her. Weekly columnist for @PressHerald.com "leftist worm who writes worthless drivel." Bi. Recovering alcoholic. Virgo. Autistic. Local mom. Local homeowner. Local kidney donor.

Wild pair of paragraphs in Press Herald's story on Susan Collins and Troy Jackson's roots in Aroostook County. Who knew that being a worker and hiring workers were the same thing! (Lots of ownership class folks think this way, actually.) #MEpolitics

Press Herald article: Each of their families has played a part in the lumber industry, a pillar of the county’s economy — Jackson’s as loggers, Collins’ as owners of a lumberyard.
“Certainly you could, in effect, say we’re both from a family of loggers,” Sam Collins, 68, the senator’s younger brother and president of S. W. Collins Co., said in his office in Caribou, referring to a period when the company employed loggers.

Probably the biggest one for me, which I think I partially believed but believed more after having the actual kids is that the main thing parents do is provide food, stability, and love. The rest is up to genes and chance. You don't build kids, you meet them.

the whole "women's sports exist to protect women from men" framing is hilarious, given that a lot of these divisions were initially formed because men were deeply embarrassed any time a woman beat them at a sport olympic shooting was mixed gender right up until a woman won the gold