It’s bad today, but good lord was it worse back in the 2010’s. Slate would publish a thinkpiece titled “The rise of ‘murderloving,’ explained” to talk about a new trend where men literally just murder the women they’re sleeping with, and it would start with a paragraph about how prudish and judgmental murderloving’s opponents were, then have an interview with a professional murderloving coach all about how it’s actually really great when practiced safely, then maybe one sentence at the very end that was like “Still, it may be worth exploring why men are murdering the women they sleep with — but not if that feels disempowering!” And then there’d be an editor’s note at the end casually mentioning that a full one-third of all American women were now dead. In comparison, Substack nowadays feels like a John Owen sermon.