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Sarah Harte: Jools Lebron’s demure world highlights cracks in trad wife vision

True freedom of choice means women establishing the parameters of their femininity

Sarah Harte: Jools Lebron’s demure world highlights cracks in trad wife vision — TikTok creator Jools Lebron has taken the virtual world by storm with her take on what it means to be ‘demure’. Picture: @joolieanniemarie/Instagram

Wed, 21 Aug, 2024 - 01:00

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Sarah Harte is a lawyer, a published, prize-winning fiction writer and works as a strategist for a domestic violence organisation.

Are you “demure”? I hope you read this column demurely. If you are drinking a cup of tea, please do so mindfully. If you eat a biscuit, let the biscuit come to you demurely, without dropping crumbs.

The new buzzword this week is “very demure”. TikTok content creator Jools Lebron has re-appropriated the word “demure”.

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