Baby-food pouches make parenting easier, writes @yeahyeahyasmin. So why does it feel so bad to feed one to your kid? https://t.co/T2fLBW0RUL
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) March 29, 2024
There’s a hidden danger in the declarative verbiage used in The Atlantic’s headlines and sub-heds that one non-expert says indicates that the constant neuroticism and ruminative babbling in the magazine’s pieces is getting kind of fucking old and maybe the writers should go outside sometimes. Studies that don’t actually exist show that if you can slap together 800 words about the social costs of a certain popular brand of multigrain bread that people are buying at Trader Joe’s then you would probably benefit from self-medicating with whiskey and muscle relaxers.
The Atlantic’s subscriber base may benefit as well if the writers would just lighten the hell up and stop printing tedious worry porn like “What might feel like good parenting in the short term might, paradoxically, threaten a kid’s ability to make safe choices in the long term.” But as long as people keep paying $79.99 a year to hear two of their experts “discuss what happens when Americans lose faith in the experts” on an exclusive podcast, don’t expect them to just fucking chill out.