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Helen Roy Align Women offers weekly lifestyle inspiration and aligned products from people who know that God, family, and country are what matter most, and that women play an irreplaceable role in service of all three. Helen Roy is a contributing editor at The American Mind, host of the podcast Girlboss, Interrupted, and a fellow at the Claremont Institute for Political Philosophy. Previously, she worked as an analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Helen writes about women’s issues, family formation, and the revival of old philosophies to address modern problems. SUBSCRIBE

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Align Women offers weekly lifestyle inspiration and aligned products from people who know that God, family, and country are what matter most, and that women play an irreplaceable role in service of all three.

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Helen Roy Align Women offers weekly lifestyle inspiration and aligned products from people who know that God, family, and country are what matter most, and that women play an irreplaceable role in service of all three. Helen Roy is a contributing editor at The American Mind, host of the podcast Girlboss, Interrupted, and a fellow at the Claremont Institute for Political Philosophy. Previously, she worked as an analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Helen writes about women’s issues, family formation, and the revival of old philosophies to address modern problems. SUBSCRIBE TO ALIGN WOMEN

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    Four Thought-Provoking Films for Easter You Probably Haven’t Seen Yet

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    Helen Roy

    A couple of years ago, I asked my Twitter followers for help curating some high-quality, not kitschy, thought-provoking films. It’s a thread that surprised me when it blew up, but perhaps it shouldn’t have: we all know how hard it is to find entertainment that qualifies as art, let alone stands on its artistic merits rather than the soft-core pornography that floats most stuff on Netflix. From that thread, I’ve gathered together my favorite four, each of which is ripe fruit for thought and discussion.

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    Big Fertility’s Big Lies

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    Helen Roy

    Egg-freezing boomed during the pandemic. Precipitated by the pause on dating life that many women in their late twenties counted on to find a husband, and facilitated by an aggressive new marketing push on social media, women took their gnawing fear to Big Pharma, who promised an alchemical peace with little to no side effects. Of course, this wasn’t the only thing pharmaceutical companies lied about at the time or any time before. But as experimental fertility procedures become a more “normal” option for women, the mendacious secrecy about its effects on the female body will catch women off guard. Nobody thinks that the procedure marketed to “preserve your fertility” might kill your fertility. But, as my most recent guest on Girlboss, Interrupted explains, it can and, not infrequently, it does.

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    Modest Womenswear for the Postmodern Rebel

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    Helen Roy

    A little over a year ago, Mary Harrington wrote in Unherd that modest fashion was having a comeback. In British department stores for middle-class women, high-neck midi dresses and loose-fitting sportswear currently take up the most available shelf space. She explains: “The [traditional] turn in high-street womenswear feels like a mutiny against the long-unchallenged belief that clothing is a vector for self-expression—an idea that usually precedes someone trying to sell you something uncomfortable and expensive.” We can easily detect a similar change in America in woke storefronts like H&M, Old Navy, and the classic department stores, but especially in the explosion of modest boutiques, usually that advertise through social media.