Adaptive Daydream

Adaptive Daydream

No One is Making Me Do This

The Tradwife, the Girlboss, and the Myth of Women’s Choice

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Alyssa Allegretti
May 18, 2026
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Part 1: Trick or Treat

I have become wary and reverent of loops, and loops are everywhere, particularly in our social discourse. Loops lead us back again and again to a purgatorial suffering that cannot ever seem to resolve, but also trace the possibility of a spiral–an excavation and a rising vantage point that offers us the perspective of greater dista…

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