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The Tradwife, The Girlboss, And The Womanhood Cold War
There's an all-out war on our very soil. The war over what the good life for women should look like. The girlboss became a punchline. The tradwife became a counterrevolution. Gather the troops. Because somehow every woman's been drafted.
By Taylor Ferber3 min read
One side warns that chasing a career will leave us childless, lonely, and looking like Tom Hanks in Cast Away. The other looks at a woman carpooling her five kids and assumes her entire personality is a sourdough starter kit. The tradwife must secretly be trapped. The career woman must secretly be empty. And the woman who wants elements of both in her life? Misguided, selfish, and bad at feminism.