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out with the girlboss, in with the trophy wife

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Each new generation casts off some of the lies of the previous generation. I think young girls today are sick of the lies of millennial feminism. Let me illustrate, in three TikToks. Exhibit A: Yelena. She wore fur earmuffs and gazed at me through the mirror of a sparkling luxury-hotel bathroom. Her caption read: “Another regular day as a stay-at-home / world-traveling girlfriend.” She described skiing at a Switzerland resort, a private spa, two meals of beautifully-plated pasta, a bubble bath. I scrolled a bit. Yelena used to live in Paris, earned a business degree, started a job but didn’t like it. Then she met her super-wealthy boyfriend, and he said: you don’t like working? Ok, then don’t. Now her life involves full-time travel and luxurious self-indulgence. She glances at a piece of jewelry; he buys it for her. She mentions liking a city; he rents them a penthouse there. She says nothing at all; he sends her an extravagant flower arrangement. On TikTok, she brags about all this, a

Each new generation casts off some of the lies of the previous generation. I think young girls today are sick of the lies of millennial feminism. Let me illustrate, in three TikToks. Exhibit A: Yelena. She wore fur earmuffs and gazed at me through the mirror of a sparkling luxury-hotel bathroom. Her caption read: “Another regular day as a stay-at-home / world-traveling girlfriend.” She described skiing at a Switzerland resort, a private spa, two meals of beautifully-plated pasta, a bubble bath. I scrolled a bit. Yelena used to live in Paris, earned a business degree, started a job but…

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