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Hello and welcome to Overthink.

The podcast where we put big ideas in dialogue with everyday life.

I'm Dr. Ellie Anderson.

And I'm Dr. David Peña Guzman.

We are witnessing a major resurgence of traditional femininity today, especially among young women.

And I'm not just talking about Sidney Sweeney and that whole discourse.

TikTok is abounding these days with material on the divine feminine.

Tradwife content is huge.

And Cottage Corps, which we talked about way back in 2020, Cottage Corps sort of back to the land aesthetics are really popular among young women, not just the aesthetics, but also, I think, increasingly, the practices.

While we're talking aesthetics, though, we have ballet corps. We have the mob wife aesthetic, and we have a ton of other micro trends that signal a new wave of interest in what has typically been understood as feminine. Yeah, and a lot of this

content and a lot of these trends are obviously nostalgic. They're backwards looking. I would say

they are regressive also. And many of them, I would even highlight the tradwives as a particular instantiation of this,

are a response to the progress that has been made in feminist circles in the last decades, right?

The wave of feminism that we saw, especially in connection to the Me Too movement. And it's understood

as a reaction to that. But I also would

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