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2023-03-15 -Great Cultural Revolution

There's a Growing 'Trad-Wife' Trend That's Making Feminists Furious

[REDSTATE] It started with young women half-joking about being angry with the feminist movement for "liberating" women so they now have to get up to go to work to pay their own bills.

The BBC made a skit off the back of this complaint that, while meant as a joke, ended up being a perfect way that described how many women felt about their "liberation." They say the left can’t meme, but this skit proves they can do so ironically.

Then a trend on TikTok began emerging that gained traction very quickly. It was women simply posting their daily lives as traditional housewives. They cooked, they cleaned, they looked nice for their breadwinning husband, and they took care of the children during the day.

It’s a trend being called "tradwife."

As you can see in some of the TikToks, there are quite a bit of aesthetic choices taken from the 1950s, from the hairstyles to the manner of dress.

You know in the western world of the modern day, this wasn’t going to fly with many, many people, namely women. The reasons are varied. Some are wives who don’t want their husbands to see a woman doing something that would make them look bad or set "unrealistic expectations" about their marriage while some called this TikTok content a "kink."

But for feminists, this trend is dangerous because it invites a return to the sexism and racism of old. As Fox News reported, various mainstream publications have now jumped on the trend, attempting to discredit and excoriate it as evil:

"The new trend for submissive women has a dark heart and history," reads one headline from The Guardian.

An article from Hypebae slapped the videos as "disturbing," writing "[they] typically feature a cis straight white women, longing for the ’50s — an era where some women could opt out of participate in the corporate working world and be stay-at-home mothers instead."

And a third from Grazia magazine accused the trend of "romanticizing an era where sexism and racism ruled."

What nonsense! None of the housewives, or the four house-husbands I have known, are in the least bit submissive. Many had successful careers before choosing to trade in their paycheck in order to rear their children themselves instead of leaving them to nannies and day care. But what was seen as an executive class luxury not so long ago (and a quirky choice by some of the crunchy granola class) quickly became a necessity during the Covid shutdown, and TikTok and YouTube are seen as a good way to teach/learn these new skills. The clothing and hairstyles are just a fad that will pass quickly, and anyway are not limited to the happy housewife crowd.

My mother and father actually liked each other. They would sometimes holler at each other, but not very often. Usually it was at one or all of their five kids. In a non-birth control age, somebody had to make a living and somebody had to watch the kids.

Posted by Fred 2023-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Women used to spend their time caring for the people they loved most.

Now they spend their time caring for some asshole boss.

This is what they took from you.

Posted by Fat Bob Thrart2867 2023-03-15 02:56|| 2023-03-15 02:56|| Front Page Top

#2 As Fred indicates at the in-line. Big Pharma has changed everything. Everyone is now a hunter-gatherer, and for obvious tax reasons the government loves it.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-15 03:25|| 2023-03-15 03:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Nothing submissive about being a stay at home Mom in suburbia or anywhere else for that matter.

My grandmothers, with one exception, on both sides and great grandmothers were all handy with fire arms when it came to protecting home and hearth. That from 2 and 4 legged predators.

Mrs Cesare as well; we complain and joke about each other but we are traditional partners and glad of it.

Of course the idea that you need some kind of external catalyst to enrage a feminist laughably flies in the face of all known human experience.

Posted by Cesare 2023-03-15 08:20|| 2023-03-15 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Funny ... I just searched for "tradwife" in my browser and each of the top hits, the full first page of responses was from a site bitterly critical of the "tradwife" phenom. So is it a real thing then, when the critics are this worried? Or just odd that for such a strong trend that it has no easily identifiable web "home." So flavor of the straw argument?

Posted by Jolusing Hatfield1692 2023-03-15 11:19|| 2023-03-15 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Preemptive strike?

Posted by Secret Master 2023-03-15 11:40|| 2023-03-15 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 The traditional American family structure and the nation it helped produce, has a lasting appeal after people realize that it offers the best quality of life and security. In my 48th year of it and it seems pretty good so far!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-03-15 12:07|| 2023-03-15 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Just one more example of one segment of the population telling another how they should live and getting their knickers in a knot when the othe segment says no.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-03-15 12:07|| 2023-03-15 12:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Jordan Peterson - women were promised careers. They wound up with jobs. No wonder they are unhappy!

Posted by Angstrom 2023-03-15 12:48|| 2023-03-15 12:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Anyone who's screeching for the gummint to force me to validate their life choices is suspect.

1) That's not gummint's purpose (though lots of gummint functionaries and pols think it is)

2) If your lifestyle choices are so superior, what do you care what anyone else thinks about them? Insecure much? Or just privately aware that you are confused?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-15 12:54|| 2023-03-15 12:54|| Front Page Top

#10 A fellow said if you have a bag full of women, different races and ages and you reach into the bag and pull one out they are all the same.

Posted by Dale 2023-03-15 13:34|| 2023-03-15 13:34|| Front Page Top

#11 That would have been a fellow who can answer the question "what is a woman?"

So that fellow would not be a democrat, wokester or "progressive."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-15 13:41|| 2023-03-15 13:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Important also to note, Pierre Delecto said he had "binders full of women..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-15 13:42|| 2023-03-15 13:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Women are all the same just like men are all the same, Dale. But seeing only interchangeable widgets sucks all the fun out of it.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-03-15 15:58|| 2023-03-15 15:58|| Front Page Top

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