When I was about seven years old, I begged my parents to let me watch “Hannah Montana,” a favorite among some of my friends. My parents held their firmly negative stance despite my pleas. At a friend’s birthday party, though, the TV was turned on as background noise, and “Hannah Montana” happened to be on
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Sheryl Sandberg has a thing or two to say about tradwives. The vocal feminist and honorary grandmother of the professional girlboss movement issued a stern warning about this movement in an interview with People Magazine last week. “The message that is going out is that in order to be a good wife or a good mother, you
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When I was in middle school, I competed in a summer reading contest with a prize for those who read the most books, writing a paragraph about each as proof of readership. Not wanting to spend the summer reading short works of fluff in order to get as many books as possible under my belt,
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Dear Gen Z Female Teens, I’m just two chapters into my advance review copy of Freya India’s forthcoming book, “Girls®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything,” and am already so saddened by what I’ve discovered that I decided to write you. Before sharing what I’ve learned from “Girls®,” you should know that my five
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I recently read Sigrid Undset’s beautiful novel “Kristan Lavransdatter,” a tale of desire and regret set in medieval Norway. Undset has been rightly praised for the meticulous historical scholarship that informed the novel, offering us an authentic glimpse into the life of 14th-century Scandinavian culture. One feature of that culture that stood out to me
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Evidently eager to introduce new ways to disincentivize adults from choosing parenthood, New York Magazine’s “The Cut” recently published a piece profiling mothers who regretted having children. These women are undoubtedly selfish and at least a little psychopathic to verbalize their wishes that their own offspring didn’t exist. Yet there is another common thread in
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