From Glinner:
... when a woman I barely knew, a woman my readers came to know as JL, offered to do ‘A Week In The War on Women’ on the regular, and refused to accept payment for it, I could barely speak through the tears.
It changed everything for me. JL gave me some space in which I could work on getting my life back together, a process that would take years as I wrote my memoir and tried to generate new projects I knew might never get made. I still made my own contributions to the Substack, but I was able to take a more relaxed and discursive approach to my journalism because of the breathing room JL gave me. My sense of humour started to return. I began to come back to myself.
Meanwhile, JL never missed a single column. Week after week, she was there, catching everything I was too busy or depressed to notice. Even when trans activists threatened and doxxed her, even when she was insulted and mocked by the crazier elements of the GC movement–a tiny minority, but loud, and just as vindictive as the TRAs they resembled–even then, she kept writing. I joked she was my Hildy, Rosalind Russell’s whipcrack-smart journalist from His Girl Friday.
JL kept the editorialising to a minimum. She let the stories speak for themselves, presenting the facts plainly so that the horror or comedy or insanity of each one lay before you as if under surgical lights. And when the tide began to turn, and people started rejecting this dumb, Tumblr-born, anorexic death cult known as gender ideology, she created the "Good News Supplement”, doubling her workload but giving her readers, and myself, something we all desperately needed: a bit of hope.
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/so-long-hildy?triedRedirect=true