The Associated Press Reports: Happy Wife, Happy Life

Ancient Problemz and I on tradwives, the prestige economy, and the moral valence of flirting

Jul 19 • Anuradha Pandey and Ancient Problemz

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America isn't a patriarchy

American women's choices are not materially constrained by men.

Jul 5 • Anuradha Pandey

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June 2026

Politics is downstream of language: the degradation of English by perfection

We stopped thinking a long time ago - LLMs came to finish the job

Jun 28 • Anuradha Pandey

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Why most software is shit: benign racism, hierarchy, and H-1Bs

Managerial capital and Hindu upper caste culture are symbiotic

Jun 7 • Anuradha Pandey

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May 2026

The H1B system betrays the luxury beliefs of the professional class

We've virtue-washed an exploitative system in progressive language

May 31 • Anuradha Pandey

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'Pick-me' and 'slut' are doing the same work, and it's not for patriarchy

It's about social enforcement, not sexuality

May 17 • Anuradha Pandey

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April 2026

Listening still isn't reading - it's intellectual cosplay

No matter what Harvard or Amazon claim, effort matters

Apr 26 • Anuradha Pandey

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HAVING a meltdown in SQL and the labor market correction

The downwardly mobile elites this time will be skill-poor and credential-rich single women.

Apr 19 • Anuradha Pandey

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The girls who called me ugly did me a favor

Girls are more likely to gang up and socially punish girls who are more attractive or who display competence. This has a dual purpose: getting the girl…

Apr 12 • Anuradha Pandey

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Women are the agents we can't locate in family outcomes

Luxury beliefs have a mother

Apr 5 • Anuradha Pandey

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March 2026

The news isn't informing you - it's holding you back

You actually want to accomplish something difficult.

Mar 29 • Anuradha Pandey

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That's just like, anecdotal, man

The negation of judgment, selectively deployed.

Mar 27 • Anuradha Pandey

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