Sick and Tired of Man-babies

Sandra Wade
6 min readMay 7, 2024
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I’ve dated a lot of man-babies. You know the type. Emotionally immature. Narcissistic. Substance abuse issues. Incapable of considering their partner’s thoughts, feelings or boundaries. Have no business being in a relationship because they have too much sh*t they need to work on.

This morning, I was reading this article by Dan Pfeiffer, former speechwriter for Barack Obama and host of the “Pod Save America” podcast, about tension between the Biden White House and the New York Times over Biden’s unwillingness to sit down for an interview, and a scary thought occurred to me: the future of our democracy rests in the hands of petulant man-babies.

In the original Politico article about the ongoing tension between the White House, Biden’s campaign, and the Times, the publisher sure looks like yet another giant man-baby: “On the other side, the newspaper carries its own singular obsession with the president, aggrieved over his refusal to give the paper a sit-down interview that Publisher AG Sulzberger and other top editors believe to be its birthright.”

Like a dog with a bone, Sulzberger apparently refuses to just let it go:

“Getting the president on the record with the paper of record is a top priority for publisher A.G. Sulzberger. So much so that last May, when Vice President Kamala Harris arrived at the newspaper’s…

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Sandra Wade

Actor, filmmaker, writer and sexy cat lady.. Currently showing at a festival near you: http://www.mailorderbridefilm.com/