That’s important, since many people make the mistake—both in the gym and daily life—of shrugging their shoulders up to their ears, which overuses the upper traps and elevates the scapula.
But while working mom and trad wife stereotypes reign online and in popular culture, many moms fall somewhere in between those two tropes.
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Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
These words have different meanings in the context of AAVE, some say, and using them in a way that appropriates or stereotypes certain people groups strips away the importance of the original definitions.
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