Plus: a 2 a.m. Justin Baldoni voice memo, women saying 'no' when they feel it, essentialist 'polarity,' and more in the weekend roundup.

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Here’s an easy way to resist the antifeminist right-wing media push: upgrade to paid to support the work I do here. It’s only $5 a month and every subscription makes a difference. Upgrade Antifeminists are coming for women's media (and Blake Lively) Plus: a 2 a.m. Justin Baldoni voice memo, women saying 'no' when they feel it, essentialist 'polarity,' and more in the weekend roundup. Tracy Clark-Flory Feb 2 ∙ Preview   READ IN APP   Blake Lively in ‘It Ends With Us.’ Still: YouTube Happy Sunday! I sent my book over to my editor on Friday, but only after a last-minute change of the file name from “THIS ONE BIIIITCHLOVES.” I’ve had so many different documents going with various tests and tweaks happening. Usual naming conventions go out the window as you try to keep track of the most recent draft. “LATEST VERSION” escalates quickly, getting weird and desperate and playfully hostile. This reminds me of how as a 12-year-old I saved a top-secret diaristic Word document on the family computer as “dontread.” My dad, whose name is Don, saw it as “Don Tread”(?!) and opened it. He read enough to discover that I was concerned that I… had a tumor and was dying of cancer, so then he had to confront me about it and take me to the doctor, where I discovered I wasn’t dying but just had a swollen lymph node. Anyway! In this week’s roundup, we’ve got “toxic feminism,” authoritarianism in the home, re-segregation, a Romeo + Juliet bar, and more, BIIIITCHLOVES. To the links… Audio was leaked of a voice memo that Justin Baldoni sent to Blake Lively at 2 a.m., reportedly during preproduction for It Ends With Us. (If you’re not keeping up, Lively sued him for on-set harassment.) In the more than six-minute-long audio clip, Baldoni apologizes for a conflict over the script while sounding like he’s auditioning as a corny audio erotica voice actor. ... Keep reading with a 7-day free trial Subscribe to TCF Emails to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Start trial A subscription gets you: Paid + public posts The full archive The ability to comment   Like Comment Restack   © 2025 Tracy Clark-Flory 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe