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| Why Gen Z Is Ditching The Girlboss For The Tradwife |
| 2024-01-11 |
| [Federalist] Hannah Neeleman, a Utah-based cattle farmer and mother of eight, is perhaps the most popular Instagram "tradwife" — a growing category of social media influencers who reject the not-so-traditional 9-to-5 workforce in favor of homeschooling their children, homemaking, or running a family business. Though her content is entirely wholesome, she (and other tradwife accounts) are not without controversy. In the case of Ballerina Farm, followers recently uncovered that Daniel Neeleman, Hannah’s husband, is the son of the founder and former CEO of JetBlue, whose estimated net worth is $400 million. Her kitchen stove, prominently featured in many of Hannah’s videos where she bakes sourdough bread, farm-raised beef, and other dishes, costs a minimum of $20,000. For those who laud their simple lifestyle as cattle farmers, many felt blindsided by the wealth enabling their smooth transition to homesteading. After all, starting a farm requires many high-cost purchases on the front end from the land, equipment, and animals, forcing many farmers into perpetual debt. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Tradwife does not mean trophy wife, or so I think. Its that hated, "stay at home" wife thing. Single family earner and a stable family. If that trophy I'll take it! Its hard work, financial sacrifice, and a solid family for the kids! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2024-01-11 22:46 |
| #11 The problem lies in "the movement," not the individual. M. Murcek nailed it. My family and I are much happier that I retired to take care of the homefront, leaving the work world to Mr. Wife. My mother, on the other hand, was miserable even with a daily cleaning lady and a weekly laundress to handle the output of four little ones; we were all much happier when she concentrated on her career as an occupational therapist — with a side gig in research and teaching — sharing the parenting with my father in the evenings and managing the housework only from a distance. I know women who were engineers and business managers, then happily turned their organizational and managerial skills to running their households (and the PTA and many other good works), and other women who’d had to return to careers when their husbands became unable to support the family, or it turned out the wives could earn more. One Size Fits All invariably pinches some and swamps others. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-01-11 22:06 |
| #10 Frilly aprons, high heels, and pearls are fringe benefits, not requirements. Something to be said for the French maid outfit. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-11 21:47 |
| #9 The problem lies in "the movement," not the individual. If a woman wants a non-trad life, hey, that's what America is all about, her right to choose. When "the movement" demands that all women fall in line, all men like it or lump it and gummint club people into validating "the movement'" priorities, it all goes to shit. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-01-11 21:37 |
| #8 ^#5: I've heard some say the women of old were responsible for the accumulation of what was called "social capital" and said capital is now diminishing b/c women won't/can't do it now b/c it gets in the way of careers. The women of old taught their children the 10 Commandments, and that's not the case as much as before. Now we have abortion, broken homes due to fatherlessness, other novel social ills. Sure seems to me, growing up w/ talk of men being called male chauvinist pigs, shows like "All in the Family", and other bad stuff from the 70s, ladies today are getting what they (or more properly, their feminine ancestors) asked for, and they are now exhibiting the masculine behaviors that were once lamented. "Why buy the cow..." especially when the cow is a nag. |
| Posted by: Nellom 2024-01-11 21:08 |
| #7 As much crap the straight male has taken, women are on their fourth generation (at least) of 'you don't need no man' pop culture propaganda. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-01-11 17:13 |
| #6 #4 49Pan nails it. Women certainly aren't happier for having all the garbage of the workplace thrust upon them, and they've shared the misery with men. |
| Posted by: Tom 2024-01-11 16:46 |
| #5 At one end of the spectrum, a tradwife is the ultimate trophy wife. At the other end of the spectrum, she maximizes value for the family as a whole instead of maximizing her own earning potential. But at both ends it’s best done when the stay-at-home spouse thinks deeply and broadly about how she (or sometimes he) uses her time to be most efficient and effective, exactly as the academic field of home economics — reapplying the learnings from Gilbreth, et al in industrial optimization — was originally intended. Not all women can be happy choosing this career, any more than all women can be successful in the work world. Frilly aprons, high heels, and pearls are fringe benefits, not requirements. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-01-11 14:10 |
| #4 Guys are tired of this craziness, and women are tired of the realities of full equality, stress, heart disease, long hours, backstabbing etc... |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2024-01-11 14:04 |
| #3 Not enough Girlboss jobs? Have we reached maximum Karen desk job saturation? Has GenZ met "The Grind"? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-01-11 13:40 |
| #2 Few people know it, but the biggest cattle ranch in the USA is the Parker Ranch in Hawaii. They figured out it's cheaper to breed and ship calves to CONUS than to ship feed to Hawaii. I saw actual Hawaiian cowboys on horseback there on my way to visit the Keck Telescope. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-01-11 09:42 |
| #1 Mark Zuckerberg turns to FARMING as tech titan buys herd of cattle for his $270M 'Bond villain' Hawaii compound where he'll produce Wagyu and Angus steaks |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-11 09:21 |