MO: Mostly, I think that all of the pumpkin spice latte jokes that can be made have been made and there are none left. They are like the Entwives; they have vanished from our shores. 

SA: Have you ever written something you’ve regretted?

MO: A few! Not enormously, but there are a few Vampire Diaries recaps I wrote for free under a pseudonym as a Young Person that probably don’t need to exist in public. Certainly a handful of blog posts I wrote (some for The Toast, some elsewhere) that I posted mostly because I had a deadline and less because I thought it was something worth chatting about. But no significant writing regrets yet, I don’t think. 

SA: One word that you use to self-describe and is used by others to describe you is “misandrist” — an (I think somewhat tongue in cheek) appropriation of the too-touted rather pathetic MRA fav. It seems in so doing you’re egging on a particularly scummy community of internet scum. Talk to me about your decision to take up that word and what it means to you.

MO: I just think it’s funny. I feel bad, because I know a lot of places are running thinkpieces about misandry, and whether it’s trendy or whether it’s important or whether it’s good or bad, but I just think it’s funny, and I don’t have anything more interesting to say about it. 

The idea of riding a sledge pulled by a team of muzzled straight white men across the snows of Narnia — what’s not to love about that? How is that not a universal good, you know? I can’t explain it any better than that, I don’t think. 

SA: I’d assume that like many women who write online about matters feminist, whether serious or in jest, you receive a lot of negative attention. How do you deal with that? Do you agree with Amanda Hess that women aren’t welcome online?