What We Talk About When We Talk About Elizabeth Bruenig

The once-beloved “leftist” is facing backlash for her anti-abortion views. Why did it take this long?

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
11 min readJul 20, 2022

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A young white woman crosses her fingers behind her back. Because she is young and white, this clearly cannot signify any mischief.
She’s definitely not up to anything, right? Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

The first time I realized something was off about Elizabeth Bruenig, I was looking at her uterus. She had followed me on Twitter after I’d criticized someone named Matt Bruenig for harassing female…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.