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weirdly, whilst I obviously don't come across as having any love for EK, I wouldn't cast aspersions in the sense of saying she isn't really genuinely grieving her husband. There is a broad spectrum of human emotional responses and especially how emotions are displayed (or potentially not displayed so much, in this case)
But I do think there is something discordant as fuck in the whole tonality of it all, in terms of the place she is tryintg to assume in the media sphere. As i mention above i wonder if some of that is due to the dissonance of being a woman, any kind of woman in the magasphere, and the contradictions that entails. She is now head of a movement which has actively proselytised against her being in the exact position she is in, a career woman. I believe she was also college educated, another example of 'rules for thee but not for me'. Basically she isn't really a 'tradwife' at all, IMO, and its the cosplaying of that role that probably strikes me as most hypocritical. I wonder if behind closed doors there was always a sense that the 'tradwife' prescriptions were just for the poors, and the blessed demographics like EK would carry on going to college, having a career and agency if they wanted them.
But I do think there is something discordant as fuck in the whole tonality of it all, in terms of the place she is tryintg to assume in the media sphere. As i mention above i wonder if some of that is due to the dissonance of being a woman, any kind of woman in the magasphere, and the contradictions that entails. She is now head of a movement which has actively proselytised against her being in the exact position she is in, a career woman. I believe she was also college educated, another example of 'rules for thee but not for me'. Basically she isn't really a 'tradwife' at all, IMO, and its the cosplaying of that role that probably strikes me as most hypocritical. I wonder if behind closed doors there was always a sense that the 'tradwife' prescriptions were just for the poors, and the blessed demographics like EK would carry on going to college, having a career and agency if they wanted them.
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