“I Was Called A Nazi For Choosing Homemaking Over Girl Bossing.” - Alena Pettitt

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark

Turning Point USA

True Crime, Health & Fitness

5 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Imagine choosing to leave the workforce because you want to pursue homemaking… Then the media brands you a “white supremacist.” This happened to British blogger and etiquette expert Alena Pettitt, creator of “The Darling Academy.” In this across-the-pond chat, Alex asks Alena what it was like to be attacked in the national media for what should be a very non-controversial choice & all the burning etiquette questions! Learn to be more ladylike with your actions AND to be brave when it counts.

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0:00.0	Did you know that outside of America praising things like family values, home making, and
0:18.8	good old-fashioned manners could get you written up by major publications like the BBC
0:24.7	and the sun and accused of being a Nazi? Think about that for a second. This happened to my
0:31.9	guest today. She lives in England and is the author of Ladies Like Us where she documents how she
0:37.6	learned to love her feminine identity and leave feminism in the workforce. Her second book,
0:43.8	English Atticate, was released in the spring of 2019, which is basically a modern field guide
0:48.9	to good manners and family life with a time-honored spin. And the way that I found her was
0:54.4	through her gorgeous blog called The Darling Academy, which focuses on things like etiquette. Well,
1:01.0	in January 2020, she was slammed in the media for being a traditional wife in pretty much every
1:09.1	major news publication you can think of. People across Europe couldn't believe that there was a woman
1:14.8	that existed who thought submitting to her husband was a good thing, who chose family over having a
1:21.2	career. You know, she must have been some kind of white supremacist, they thought. Through that,
1:27.5	the apron clad army was born. Women in Europe and all over the world related to my guest because
1:34.1	they were tired of being told that women were only worth anything if they acted like men. In a
1:40.4	continuation of our Mays for the Mom series, I'm very excited to host Housewife, mother, author,
1:46.2	etiquette expert and Brit, Elena Pettit of The Darling Academy on The Spillover. And PS,
1:52.6	speaking of The Mays for the Mom series, make sure you listen to this whole episode because I have
1:58.4	an announcement at the end. Elena, you are an etiquette expert. You created The Darling Academy. What is
2:08.9	that? And then how do you define the word etiquette? Okay. Well, I've always been interested in
2:16.4	etiquette. As I was young, it's very strange. I was like, we're a child who, you know, would
2:22.4	be interested in the way that you set a table and the way that you treated people. And as I was
2:27.9	growing up, I realized, I was looking more into etiquette. I was realizing that everything out there
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