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Mag Hags, is the culture and history podcast that every modern woman should know. Join your hosts, Franki and Lucy, as they dive into the glossy archives of women’s magazines to find out what’s still hot and what’s definitely not.

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Mag Hags is a pop culture and history podcast about British women's magazines from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

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Yeah I guess I don’t really see this because I buy everything second hand so I’m just searching “sweatshirts” rather than browsing the whole section. And I do buy a lot of “girls” stuff for S because he likes colour and pattern (which “boys” clothes lack) and they’re always warm so 🤷🏼‍♀️

I mean sorry to hammer the point home with a Timmy Mallett-style comedy prop here but… Boys are told to “aim for your goals while girls are taught to practice “gratitude”. ARE WE GOING BACKWARDS???!!?????

But obvs the main thing that’s bothering me here is that… They. Do. Not. Write. Gratitude. On. Boys. Clothes. (“Boys” clothes - obvs clothes are clothes but you know what I mean). What do they write on boys clothes? Let’s have a look. Oh that’s right. “Explore” “aim for your goals” “keep it chill”

I take issue with gratitude culture anyway. It’s partly just me being picky about semantics (the word feels religion-coded to me) but can’t help feeling there’s something a little bit gaslighty about it. All for being present and appreciative but “gratitude” specifically makes me prickle.

I know this is extremely well-trodden ground in terms of discourse but I’m shopping for jumpers for my 7yo and I just saw TWO *girls* jumpers in the space of five minutes with “gratitude” written on them. That’s what we’re teaching our daughters now? FUCKING GRATITUDE.

Me eating kale before today: miserable, furious but morally correct

a man in a hawaiian shirt is sitting in the back seat of a car making a funny face .

ALT: a man in a hawaiian shirt is sitting in the back seat of a car making a funny face .