Jan. 12, 2025
Is Dog Biscuit salesperson Meghan Markle a Tradwife now?
Meghan Markle is Facing ‘Trad Wife’ Criticism Over her New Netflix Show. Critics have taken aim at the show’s trailer, claiming its focus on domesticity clashes with Meghan’s image as a feminist and philanthropist. Writing for The Times, Alice-Azania...
Meghan Markle is Facing ‘Trad Wife’ Criticism Over her New Netflix Show. Critics have taken aim at the show’s trailer, claiming its focus on domesticity clashes with Meghan’s image as a feminist and philanthropist. Writing for The Times, Alice-Azania Jarvis quipped, “We’ve had Meghan, the actress, Meghan, the people’s princess, and Meghan the wound-licking, Oprah-confiding ex-royal. Now the artist formerly known as Ms. Markle has a new guise: Meghan, the trad wife.”
Meanwhile Meghan's podcats company kinda implied there would be new episodes of Meghan's podcast, but then didn't actually mention her in their promotion
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Calorogus, Shark Media, Hello and welcome through Palace Intriguga and
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the host of Mark Francis. Meghan Markle is facing trad
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wife criticism over her new Netflix show. Critics have taken
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aim at the show's trailer, claiming its focus on domestic
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issues clashes with Meghan's image as a feminist and philanthropist.
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Writing for The Times, Alice Azania Jarvis quipped, We've had
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Meghan the actress, Meghan the People's Princess, and Meghan the
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wound licking Oprah confiding ex royal. Now the artist formerly
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known as MS Markle has a new guys, Megan the Tradwife.
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The term tradwife refers to a growing Internet movement promoting
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traditional homemaking roles and esthetics, often coupled with a rejection
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of modern feminism. Commentators have pointed out similarities between the
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show's themes and this trend, suggesting that the series may
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advertently appeal to audiences drawn to the trad wife lifestyle. Critics,
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like The Independence Olivia Petter found the tone of the
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trailer off putting, writing it's not so much the content
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itself that rattles me. I love a good cooking show
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as much as anyone. It's the tone which is so
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jarringly earnest it feels sinister. Meanwhile, The New York's Sun
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argued that Meghan's apparent embrace of traditional roles marx sharp
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pivot from her vocal feminist stance. Journalist Kevin O'Sullivan told
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The Kinsey Show filled Unfiltered podcast, what she's offering the public,
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you know, the new Megan, this is the new invention
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is pathetic. This is a stupid show where she is
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baking cakes for her mates in California, wearing Cartier designer
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jewelry and flashy clothes. What she doesn't understand is in
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order to be successful in show business, in order to
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make successful programs and successful films, is you have to
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make them not boring. This is nonsense, and it's boring.
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It's really boring, and therefore it will fail. Lemonada Media
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is capitalizing on all the Meghan mania, teasing new episodes
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of Meghan's Archetypes podcast on social media. They shared a
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collage of podcast photos including Archetypes, adding new year new episodes,
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We Are So Back, with new episodes of Fail Better, Boneheads,
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pop Culture, Debate Club and more coming out this week?
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Which podcasts are you excited to listen to this week?
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We all have to assume that Meghan's podcast is part
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of that and more, and find it curious that they
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didn't name check archetypes. On Housbautiful dot com, Kelseymulvey asks
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serious question how authentic can With Love Megan really be?
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Kelsey writes, Megan Markle is so back. No, not because
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she's rejoining the royal family or finally launching her mysterious
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jam brand. Rather, the Duchess of Sussex recently returned to
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Instagram and announced that her new lifestyle show With Love
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Meghan is premiering on Netflix on January fifteenth. As someone
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who is fascinated with pop culture and home body hobbies
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in equal measure, I've been thinking a lot about this
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upcoming series. How does she get her floral arrangements looking
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so polished and professional? Only time will tell. Should I
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also take up bee keeping? Probably not? And on a
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slightly skeptical note, how authentic is With Love Megan really
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going to be? After all? The Netflix series isn't even
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filmed at Markle's home. Reports claimed that the show's California
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coastal setting is an eight million dollar Montecita home that
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belongs to philanthropists Tom and Sherry Cippola. The series picture
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perfect backdrop seems more like a sterile movie set than
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a real home, a far cry from the pursuit of
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joy Markel promises to imbue into each episode. The pristine
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forty five hundred square foot home, complete with avocado trees,
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citrus groves, caesarstone countertops in a forty eight inch Thermodore range,
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could have been plucked right from a Nancy Meyer's movie.
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Watching Markle gather veggies from the garden, baked cakes, and
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host of famous friends, we can enjoy some low stakes
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entertainment and perhaps pick up a few lifestyle tips along
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the way. Meghan Marko's Instagram following is up by more
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than two hundred thousand followers since she returned to social media.
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Despite a small hiccup, Instagram had mistakenly restricted searches for
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the hashtag with love Megan. Apparently, searches for the term
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had been blocked due to sensitive content. A spokesperson explained,
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we blocked people's ability to search for terms related to
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potential child safety risks, in this case, the search term
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with love Megan was restricted in error and has now
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been corrected. Piers Morgan is growing tired of Harry and Meghan,
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telling Variety, I've just run out of interest in them,
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as most people have. While our download numbers strongly disagree.
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Piers added, I think people are genuinely bored with it all.
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They've just disappeared into obscurity, and when you trash your
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family for years, you just run out of things to say.
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It's over. However, if they want to go on his show,
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Peers says, Megan and Harry uncensored, bring it down. Tell
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Us Intrica. A reback in the Daily Mail, Liz Jones
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writes under the headline I'm so sorry Megan. You made
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me angry, but now I see you do have a
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heart and I'm not too proud to say I cried.
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Jones tells Us, I remember the moment I fell in
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love with Guy the rescue Beagle, which meante also fell
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for his mum, Megan Markle. He was proudly sitting next
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to the Lake Queen in her limo. His shoe sole,
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pair of ears were flapping, and his great big nose
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was smudging the window. His tan and white, sturdy little
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body was all alert hitching a rye with his Funigrannian
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law to Mummy Meghan's wedding rehearsal. Seeing Little Guy next
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to Queen, I also saw a sure sign that the
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Monarch and Megan would bond over a shared love of
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dogs who have access to all areas, are always put
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first and taken everywhere, often carried where little coats who
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were kissed on the nose, who are mourned when they
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always die too soon and with a searing pain. The
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emptiness of the warm rump on the sofa, a curled,
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snoring heap on a pillow. This is the real change
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in the stuffy, old, unrelatable Royals, I thought, upon learning
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of Guy rescued by Megan in twenty fifteen, whey before
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she met Harry. Meghan champions animals at last, and so
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when an Instagram post dropped on the Duchess's account, I
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was sobbing. Oh Megan, my heart goes out to you.
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I did love you, I supported you, but you made
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me angry. With the reveling red carpet dress, the wet
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look hair, the lack of elegance, your new lost grip
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of reality TV show has left me cold as it
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brims with artifice and inauthenticity and controlling, never possible perfection,
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but I am so so sorry. Grief is the great leveler.
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It brings us all closer again. You do have a heart.
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I can see it in your love for the little
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chap And there you have it. If you like to
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