#but this kept popping up in my newsfeed and irritating me

[yespumpkindoodlesthings]

I really despise when left-leaning media outlets do cruel, dumb headlines like this:

The author just hand-waves away that Tucker Carlson’s mother walked out on him and his brother when they were very young (Tucker was six, his brother was even younger). It’s been widely reported that their mom essentially left her kids with their father, she never wanted to have contact with them even as adults, and that they consider their current stepmother--that they reportedly have a good relationship with--to be their actual mom.  In all other ways, he’s a horror show, but it’s perfectly sane and normal for him to feel ambivalence about the death of a relative who is a virtual stranger, no matter how closely related they are biologically. Nothing to do with his terrible politics or awful TV persona. He doesn’t know her; his brother was right to choose going to his kids’ game over flying to France to see a dying woman who made it clear that she never wanted to be a part of their lives. And if they got some of her (inherited) money over her objections in the end, so what? She never did anything else for them. 

#argghhh #jezebel does shitty shit like this all the time #this is why I'm done with them #but this kept popping up in my newsfeed and irritating me #it's 100% typical to feel this way when relatives who ghost you die #what are you supposed to feel? #gee #I wish you'd been a less shitty mom? #helllooooo ostensibly feminist writers #you're defending a deadbeat mom #who wanted to humiliate her kids one last time by leaving them a $1