Last week, I was a featured guest on the Slate Podcast Hear Me Out with Celeste Headlee. In the episode, we discuss the threat of the Trad Wife and Soft Life Trends to Women’s Progress and seek to answer the question of whether or not the women’s movement can attract and keep younger women.
Check out the episode here and read my take below.
“So long as you, the mainstream media, continue to try and cancel traditionalism and the at-home role of the wife and mother—you’ll see me in the opposite side of the corner, ready to fight for it.”
Reading the passage, I rolled my eyes dismissively. She is cosplaying June Cleaver in a world of Oprahs, Beyonces, and Taylor Swifts; I thought to myself as I flipped through the pages of the New Yorker magazine. She’s tangling around a ring, shadowboxing with women’s progress – a losing battle. We had come so far, or so I thought.
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