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Truly, Tradly, Deeply — Inside the Tradosphere with Annie Kelly (E345)

🕑 Added 2025-10-22 03:16:01 +0000 UTC

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Cate Kneale

Barbara Ehrenreich also wrote about the problems of positivity in Bright Sided. For one thing, it's another way of promoting extreme personal responsibility over systemic understandings of issues.

wolfgang

Not surprised. There is seemingly a dumb off-brand, hard-right, antithesis to so many well considered, studied discourses; “Toxic Empathy(cringe)” is like a stupid off-brand version of “Toxic Positivity” that Byung Chul Han has written about at length in his book “Burn Out Society.” He describes how toxic positivity excludes consideration of “the other” and the avoidance of or downright denial of negativity. The conservative trad-wife rejects a primary tool for engaging with the other and acknowledging negativity, namely empathy. I think this is why we should not be surprised that wellness influencers so easily succumb to the right, even if seemly wrought with contradiction. “Self improvement” is inherently antisocial and there is a political ideology for that.

Andrew Mahalik

Jake absolutely cooking


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