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We're taking pie and bread and sexy ass dresses back from the trads....

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Jo Piazza
May 05, 2025
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I don’t know how it happened, but somehow the tradwives and ultra-conservatives managed to co-opt pie. PIE. Sourdough, crumbles, tarts, all of it. They took our buttery, flaky symbols of comfort and tried to make them a mascot for oppression and Stepford-style submission.

Well, in the immortal words of Twisted Sister:
We’re…

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