Trying with Emma Barnett

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Trying…not to be a soft girl

Trying…not to be a soft girl

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Emma Barnett
Feb 05, 2025
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Sweden’s new soft girl trend - which celebrates often young women without kids quitting work - makes me feel queasy. Not just for the obvious reasons, of, you know, feminism, but because women haven’t come this far to come this far. And we deserve to live with all it entails; to rip the band-aid off and put oursel…

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