MAKE YOUR GOALS/HABITS AN IDENTITY. Your lifestyle makes up who you are, quite literally. If you want to wake up early, then start identifying yourself as an early bird. If you want to get good grades, then start identifying yourself as a studious student. And so on.
This helps with feeling more accountable and committed to our goals and habits. However, don’t use this as a reason to overexert yourself.
THERE IS SOMETHING UNDERNEATH CERTAIN BEHAVIOURS. All of your bad habits stem from your subconscious. This is why mentally healthy people tend to think more about their physical health.
The best way to recognise patterns beneath your bad habits is just to talk to yourself. In any way or any form. Identify it, see what might’ve caused this subconscious thought and then work towards a way to replace the feeling that these bad habits give with a good one.
DETACH FROM THE OUTCOME. The more you fixate on the long-term results, the more longer, strenuous and exhausting your journey is going to be, especially because you’re going to want to give up as soon as results don’t appear. Focus on the short-term results.
You exercised? Now you feel good inside. You studied hard and understood everything? Great job for being so productive. You did that one really scary thing? What a great start!
THE PART OF YOU THAT DOES BAD HABITS IS NOT BAD. It is the complete opposite of bad. It loves you and wants to keep you safe, so it refrains you from doing anything ‘scary’ (which is typically new things in our lives) and makes you fall back on ‘safe’ habits which are a coping mechanism.
So, instead of berating that part of you that participates in bad habits even if you know it’s bad, understand it. As these coping mechanisms usually stem from our childhoods, we turn to these habits when we feel stressed, anxious or depressed.
Conservatives’ tradwife push is losing to feminism. For now.
Kylie Cheung at Abortion, Every Day:
Turning Point USA kicked off their annual “Women’s Leadership Summit” today, a national conference aimed at convincing young women that the rapid erosion of their human rights is a good thing, actually. The event is part of conservatives’ multimillion dollar pink pill pipeline—where young women are exposed to anti-feminist ideologies disguised as ‘lifestyle’ content, mostly on social media.
It’s not a coincidence that the rapidly growing creator economy of “tradwife” and female lifestyle influencers who oppose birth control and abortion comes at the same time those rights are under unprecedented threat. Anti-abortion leaders know their policies are unpopular with young people—certainly with young women who woke up on June 24, 2022, with fewer rights over their bodies than their mothers and grandmothers.
But despite sweeping declarations of victory from outlets like Fox News, the truth is that this pink pill pipeline isn’t working: Gen Z women are the first feminist majority generation. According to a 2025 Ipsos survey, 53% of Gen Z women identify as feminists—compared with 46% of millennial women, 37% of Gen X women, and 39% of baby boomer women.
We know conservatives have a long-term goal: they’re looking decades into the future, building toward a reality in which women have no options but to marry and have children. They’re priming girls and young women, today, to accept this reality. And while we don’t know what the state of our rights and feminist resistance will look like in a few decades, we do know that right now, this propaganda doesn’t appear to be working on young women. In fact, conservatives’ attacks have activated the next generation—who are now on the frontlines for abortion and reproductive freedom.
College students across the country have successfully organized for emergency contraceptive vending machines, access to birth control, and abortion pills at their campus health centers. Thanks to student organizers, public universities are now required to offer medication abortion on campus in states like California, Massachusetts, Colorado, and others.
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Of course, everyone has different experiences with different birth control methods, and our health system has failed many young women as they search for the right method for them. The U.S. economy has certainly failed many young women. Anti-birth control social media content flattens all of these complexities. These posts are solely meant to convince young women that birth control is bad and must be restricted, and marrying and having kids as early as possible is good, and even essential.
Conservatives aren’t interested in improving conditions within the health system or directing us toward real solutions—they’re interested in convincing us to blame feminism.
But it’s feminism that’s helping women see through the lies. Spector says that after campaigning for over-the-counter birth control options for years, myths about birth control simply don’t work on her. But she still sees the disinformation everywhere.
Pink pill pipeline content often follows the same recipes and lines of attack: alternative health TikToks questioning the safety and efficacy of hormonal birth control, ‘tradwife’ videos starring young mothers of a whole litter of small children, or, increasingly, celebrity and tabloid stories with predictably misogynistic undertones.
Run-of-the-mill pink pill pipeline content most prominently features supposedly apolitical dating advice on finding a man who will provide for you. You may also see posts from women like far-right Heritage Foundation researcher Emma Waters, who tells her followers they can strive to be both a “girlboss” and a “tradwife” in one—by being a “side hustle tradwife.”
The right knows exactly what they’re doing: creating cultural support for their repressive, unpopular political agenda. They’re also replicating the success they’ve had with the “manosphere,” which attracts young men first with ‘apolitical’ content about weightlifting and dating. The pink pill pipeline similarly lures young women with seemingly apolitical content—ultimately steering them toward anti-birth control articles from the right-wing billionaire-backed women’s magazine Evie, or Candace Owens’ rants against voting rights.
The right’s antifeminist pink pill push has thudded into reality: polling from Ipsos reveals that 53% of Gen Z women identify as feminist, compared to older generations.
Conservatives’ tradwife push is losing to feminism. For now.
But despite sweeping declarations of victory from outlets like Fox News, the truth is that this pink pill pipeline isn’t working: Gen Z women are the first feminist majority generation. According to a 2025 Ipsos survey, 53% of Gen Z women identify as feminists—compared with 46% of millennial women, 37% of Gen X women, and 39% of baby boomer women.
We know conservatives have a long-term goal: they’re looking decades into the future, building toward a reality in which women have no options but to marry and have children. They’re priming girls and young women, today, to accept this reality. And while we don’t know what the state of our rights and feminist resistance will look like in a few decades, we do know that right now, this propaganda doesn’t appear to be working on young women. In fact, conservatives’ attacks have activated the next generation—who are now on the frontlines for abortion and reproductive freedom.
College students across the country have successfully organized for emergency contraceptive vending machines, access to birth control, and abortion pills at their campus health centers. Thanks to student organizers, public universities are now required to offer medication abortion on campus in states like California, Massachusetts, Colorado, and others.
