The Tradwife Trend

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in The Tradwife Trend:

Isn’t true feminism the right to make your own choices? I guess not. Looks like it’s just another prescribed limitation.

I know a feminist who makes that point a lot. She disagrees strongly with the denigration of women who choose to be homemakers etc.

[Axtremus]

@Mik said in The Tradwife Trend:

Isn’t true feminism the right to make your own choices? I guess not. Looks like it’s just another prescribed limitation.

What do you think feminism is?

[Axtremus]

The skit cited in the article:

Link to video

[Copper]

@Axtremus said in The Tradwife Trend:

What do you think feminism is?

Girls are good

Boys are bad

So what? They are entitled to their opinion, so am I.

[Aqua Letifer]

I can't get behind most of this.

They cooked,

I do most of the cooking, simply because I'm better at it. If cooking is "women's work," why are the vast majority of restaurant kitchens staffed by guys?

they cleaned,

Spring cleaning and common areas are one thing, but I really don't see how you can make an argument for not picking up after your damn self.

they looked nice for their breadwinning husband, and they took care of the children during the day.

Meh that part's okay I guess.

[Mik]

We've always shared duties when both were working, and I've always cooked. She does all the laundry. It works out. But I have no objection to people making their own choice of how to manage their households.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in The Tradwife Trend:

But I have no objection to people making their own choice of how to manage their households.

Me neither, just commenting on how this particular concept of divvying up wouldn't work for me. I'd find it weird.

[Mik]

When I was working and she was not I did have aa higher expectation of how the duties would be handled, so I can see both ways.

Luckily, when both of us worked we had cleaning ladies come in weekly so it wasn't too tough.

[George K]

@Mik said in The Tradwife Trend:

've always shared duties when both were working, and I've always cooked. She does all the laundry.

Same here.

It works out.

And that's the point.

[Axtremus]

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/was-childfree-woman-enjoying-saturday-came-culture-warriors-rcna103581

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Mazur had inadvertently found herself in an ongoing and fervent corner of the culture war that is increasingly playing out online, one where content that directs hate toward women — even against women with relatively small social media presences — has become profitable and popular inside and outside of conservative circles.

Walsh and many other right-leaning voices are part of a larger conservative movement that promotes what they consider to be traditional family values. That has included targeting medical gender transition procedures and openly criticizing women who have not married and had children. One version of this ideology has become known as “trad wife” content, where women envision ‘50s-style housewife ideals including subservience to their husbands, which has made the practice controversial.
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