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From Girlbosses To Tradwives, The Internet Keeps Getting Femininity Wrong

The internet has given women endless ways to look feminine. What women need is a clearer vision of how to become truly feminine.

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The internet has spent the last decade inventing new ways for women to be girls. We have had the girlboss, clean girl, soft girl, “girl dinner,” “girl math,” hot girl summer, lazy girl jobs, and the increasingly ubiquitous “I’m just a girl.” Now, after years of telling women that freedom meant climbing the corporate ladder and needing no man, the algorithm has rediscovered traditional femininity. Sourdough, bows, floral dresses, homemaking, “feminine energy,” and tradwife TikTok have arrived as the correction to the exhausted girlboss.

But replacing the pantsuit with a prairie dress does not by itself recover femininity.

Femininity begins with accepting that being female is not an identity a woman constructs but a nature she receives. Men and women share the same human dignity and moral obligations, but they are not interchangeable expressions of the same thing. Sexual difference reaches beyond anatomy. It shapes how men and women relate to one another, to family, and to the generations that come after them.

The female body itself gives us the clearest clue. It is uniquely ordered toward receiving, bearing, and nurturing life. Not every woman will become a biological mother, yet motherhood itself reveals something fundamental about womanhood even beyond the women who experience it biologically: Femininity is maternal and generative. Maternalism is an orientation........

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