Skip to content
HeyJared

The OK Karen

The personal Substack of Victoria Smith, author of Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women, and Unkind: How Kindness Culture Punishes Women.

Newsletter · By Victoria Smith · English · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
13
Latest publication
Sep 26, 2026
Audience
Checking…
Earliest in this view
Jul 14, 2026

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    How do they expect the gender wars to end? (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone

    Read excerpt

    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="502" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ykMO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a5cac36-ebe5-4705-9257-4c5199254353_587x502.png" w

  2. Issue · Sep 19, 2026

    Millennial feminism had to end with women buying babies (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    <img alt="A pregnant person in a black dress holding an ultrasound scan" class="sizing-normal" height="3648" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1654931800911-7a9cfb3b7c17?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxf

  3. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    Perhaps sometimes we’re frightened enough (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    <img alt="Wooden cabins nestled among green trees at dusk" class="sizing-normal" height="8160" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1783265193331-0296300e596e?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxf

  4. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    The Clancy trial as backlash fodder (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone

    Read excerpt

    <img alt="woman holding sword statue during daytime" class="sizing-normal" height="3776" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1589829545856-d10d557cf95f?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxf

  5. Issue · Aug 30, 2026

    Is it just Lindsay Clancy or do men kill children too? (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone

    Read excerpt

    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="460" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c-HL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbd4429a-7368-468f-84af-26838af37f40_752x460.png" w

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

No verified audience measurement yet.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about The OK Karen