This shit is so mental, I don’t know where they get these weird ass ideas about traditional wives. If you’re old enough, you will have had grandparents that lived through most the 20th century, including the mythical 1950s these loons are so fixated on. My grandparents on my dad’s side where “traditional” in that my grandfather was the bread-winner and my grandmother was the stay at home wife. She wasn’t a feminist by any stretch. Do you know who was in charge? It wasn’t the one wearing the pants. They stayed together until my grandfather died.

On my mom’s side of the family, that grandfather was an abusive drunk and they eventually got divorced. Being an abusive fuck head has nothing to do with “proper” traditional families. Have they ever seen a healthy relationship? These people are living in a delusion.

“We need to return to a time when women had no agency, no real personhood, were essentially slaves in their homes, treated as property, and bore literally all the work of the home and family.”

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“Wow, this is oppressive.”

These people have no thought that the situation women were in 50+ years ago was forced. They didn’t have a choice. They couldn’t even open a bank account on their own. But want to paint that time as some sort of heyday that we need to return to.

Further, I’m convinced that the tradwife movement isn’t in any way genuine, that it’s entirely white supremacist, patriarchal propaganda. Maybe there’s a handful out there that genuinely want this. But otherwise I think it’s entirely a pushback against modernity, and bigots and white cishet men trying to claw back their cultural hegemony.

“I don’t have to worry about my financials or working a job, and all I have to do is marry a horrible man and accept the possibility of spousal rape”, said the woman who doesn’t yet understand how bad rape is.

The original article is better