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Social media amplifies surface-level debates, often reducing complex issues into memes or dichotomous archetypes. The viral clips and TikTok videos encourage young women to compare themselves to celebrities or public figures without considering their broader life paths.
Many critics argue that this oversimplification fuels the divide between "trad wives" and "girl bosses," creating false choices rather than acknowledging the multifaceted nature of women's identities today. The tendency to meme-ify women into either virtuous homemakers or ambitious career women ignores the spectrum of possibilities that modern women navigate.