A new trend is spreading across TikTok and Instagram, and young women are vulnerable to its feminist messaging. These popular videos use an audio excerpt from the 2024 movie Here, in which a character breaks down over the opportunities she thinks she has missed.
“But I never made it to law school,” she says, voice trembling, “and I never got to see Paris in the spring, and I never got to stay over in Yellowstone because it was too crowded.”
Lenore Skenazy, Los Angeles Times
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