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The Cool Aunt

Unladylike

Unladylike Media

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Of all the aunt tropes in pop culture–spinster aunts, sinister aunts, weird aunts, witchy aunts–why is The Cool Aunt so popular these days? More importantly, who is she really, beyond (alleged) disposible income and TikTok aesthetics? Los Angeles Times art and design columnist Carolina Miranda appraises the figure as a timely foil to tradwives, as well as an underappreciated part of the family. Highlights include: Cristen's formative fictional cool aunt, Fresh Prince's Aunt Viv, Empire's Cookie Lyon and the invention of PANK (professional aunt, no kids). *Read Carolina's LA Times piece that inspired this episode: How the cool aunties of pop culture flout, the growing restrictions imposed on women* Get in touch at [email protected] Follow Unladylike on Instagram and TikTok Join the Unladies' Room Patreon Shop merch Contact Multitude Productions for ad rates, etc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.5

She doesn't care. I mean that's the thing that cool on is unconventional. She is not following all the rules that society has for women like oh you need to be submissive and pure and have 2.5 children and big pies or whatever it is our society thinks women should be doing at this minute. And yeah, she's doing her thing. She's doing her thing. on Lady Lyle.

0:25.0

Life.

0:29.0

A lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like

0:37.0

a lady like. I've had a love.

0:42.0

This is un ladyie like, I'm Kristen.

0:45.0

Last week on the podcast, we covered the cool mom,

0:50.0

her parenting style, what she looks like in pop culture and real life.

0:55.0

This episode, we are shifting our cool gaze to her sister.

1:00.0

The cool aunt.

1:02.0

The cool ant figure possesses the likeability the cool mom craves and without

1:09.6

all the motherhood baggage I mean I think it's pretty self-evident why we do love a cool

1:16.0

aunt, but also though, is she cool because we assume she's rich? And of all the various ant tropes you know your spinster ants your sinister

1:26.8

ants your weird ants witchy ants why is the cool aunt really doing her thing right now.

1:34.3

Is she perhaps the foil we need to hashtag

1:37.8

tradwife life?

1:39.9

A cool aunt herself,

1:41.3

Carolina Miranda recently went looking for those answers.

1:46.0

And on ladies, when I say, Carolina is a cool ant.

1:49.6

For one thing, she's the art and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times which hello does a job

1:56.1

title get more cool ant than that but even over Zoom y'all. Carolina just radiated, cool, and she was not

2:06.9

wearing any thick-framed statement glasses.

2:10.6

I know.

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