How One Woman Talking About Shakshuka Launched a Wave of Online Hate

It’s another day of meaningless Internet drama, and this time people are angry about a woman making shakshuka. Minor TikTok influencer/podcaster Julia Mazur made a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@pmdpod/video/7274293854134734122" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">video</a> talking about her Saturday morning — she was slightly hungover after seeing Beyonce and wanted to learn to make shakshuka — and she said that while she feels the pressure from her not adhering to societal standards by being 29, unmarried, and childless, she can still appreciate the ease and comfort that a childless and unmarried life brings. So far, so innocuous. It’s a mundane video of a woman talking about her feelings and her day. Not so much for conservative male influencers though. To them, the video represents the peak of depravity that a woman can reach. Matt Walsh, a sort of professional bad-vibes-haver/right-wing influencer, decided to <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1698375234909307373" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">post the video</a> to his Twitter/X account to his 2.4 million followers, saying “Her life doesn’t revolve around her family and kids so instead it revolves around TV shows and pop stars. Worst of all she’s too stupid to realize how depressing this is.” And “If you don’t have a family at least do something interesting with your time. These people have absurd amounts of free time and they do absolutely nothing with it. Wasting their lives staring at little glowing boxes. Absolutely soul crushing.” <a href="https://medium.com/@kat.anders0n/how-one-woman-making-shakshuka-on-the-internet-launched-a-wave-of-online-hate-b5f148a45ea8">Visit Now</a>