Monica Hesse
@MonicaHesse · joined 21 Apr 2009
Columnist: Washington Post. Writes about gender and society. Author: THE BRIGHTWOOD CODE, a historical mystery, due in May 2024: https://t.co/qKdvRF4RFV
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@MonicaHesse Your column is one of the things I miss when I dropped my WaPo.
I hope peace is restored to your staff. Someday.
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And I am so sorry for the pregnant women who woke up today to a confusing and confused country that has now found a way to place even more blame at their swollen feet. (4/5)
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Did I drink coffee? Do yoga? Not do yoga? Eat the wrong cheese? Did I, for one minute, prioritize my splitting head over my theoretical child? (3/5)
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There is a creep in American motherhood, whereby women are expected to sacrifice 100% of their physical and emotional wellbeing for even a whiff of a chance of a .001 improvement for their pregnancies. (4/5)
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I have chronic migraines, and the only thing that has ever worked is Excedrin, and when I was pregnant I gave it up entirely because of the aspirin and the caffeine, though not the Tylenol. Nine months. Agony. Knowing headache relief was right there and refusing to take it. (1/5)
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But I wasn't afraid that the occasional Excedrin would actually harm my baby, which I knew was a statistical unlikelihood. Rather, I was afraid that if I had another miscarriage (I'd had three), there was a chorus of voices who would be waiting to ask me how it was my fault (2/5)
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1/ Just tonight I remembered that I have a Robert Redford story. Which is: nearly 20 years ago I had just graduated from college and I was freelancing for People magazine at a Kennedy Center event. They gave me a list of questions to ask Redford on the red carpet.
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The main secret of parenting is that every single time your kid hassles you for a Fudgesicle and Doritos for dinner, you also want a goddamn Fudgesicle and Doritos for dinner.
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I'm chatting at 1 over on Washington Post about [gestures broadly] all of this, and I hope you'll come join me. https://t.co/vaxvECjlGq
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@MonicaHesse LOL, what!? https://t.co/BEDGqNXn2G
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@MonicaHesse Is the girl on the cover running to find a boy with a tampon she can use before her dress gets ruined?
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@MonicaHesse you are so fucking weird and creepy
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My first hardcover copy of THE BRIGHTWOOD CODE arrived today! On sale May 14. Pre-order now, and then come see me on the 14th at Politics & Prose. https://t.co/yElPsBorgU https://t.co/l8Ao7YOM4R
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.11%5 Apr
6.96%7 Aug
9.92%
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0.06%22 Jul
0.82%1 Sep
0.61%19 Sep
1.67%24 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.
What the audience does
Likes68.7%156 in total
Reposts4.0%9 in total
Replies23.8%54 in total
Quotes0.4%1 in total
Bookmarks3.1%7 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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