From Lori Gottlieb’s “Marry Him” to the Great Having it All Controversy of 2012, The Atlantic used to have a real lock on the genre: Counter-intuitive Post-Feminist Real Talk. The trend piece that shows you that even though the journalist is on your side (and was once on a panel about women in media!), she’s learned the hard way that feminism is a joke and all women really just want to be barefoot and pregnant. The article that “reluctantly” exposes the value of traditional gender roles based on the pseudoscience of femininity and some experiences of a few white, straight friends–and then prescribes sweeping personal changes or policy shifts. The essay, as n+1 so ...