Poison Envy
The brainworm of social media that stokes misery and failure
Pop your head above the parapet and people will start shooting. Stand out, and they’ll want to knock you back into line. Being judged and critiqued by strangers is hard to withstand.
Especially if you’re someone who has been abused, attacked, and violated by miserable people who don’t want to see someone else having fun, or money or the limelight.
Especially if you’re a woman.
Because women get a LOT more shit for stepping out of the kitchen. So much so, that high-profile women like Megan Markle and Kamala Harris, on being attacked, make a public display of getting back into it.
I’m not cooking for anyone. I cooked daily for my kids for fifteen years, and sick of the fact that all I ever got when I served up was moans because someone didn’t like this or that about it, I went on strike. Said to my teen boys, Make your own food then (I’d taught them to cook first. One became a chef.) Put my husband (with his consent) on a cooking course. Up …
