December 21, 2024

You Can Be Anything You Want to Be, But a TradWife

One thing that the Internet has certainly done is to bring together people of similar mindsets. One one side you have those who think that following a more traditional arrangement in the home is the way to go, and then others will pile on that any choice is acceptable, except the traditional choices.

And then, there is the third set: the ones that wish is were fashionable to be traditional, but because it isn’t, they have to redefine the traditional to agree with it:

“That feels like fantasy or fetish, designed, I suspect, to appeal mainly to men…. But the other kind – families forging a wholesome, homesteading existence – taps into a longing for things it’s objectively reasonable to long for. It’s stuff I long for: a slower, simpler, more intentional way of life, making do and mending, a hands-on relationship with nature, the seasons and food production. The world is chaos, cruelty and despair, but in a peaceful corner of the internet, a woman in sprigged muslin is meditatively pickling beets in a shaft of sunlight or pouring raw milk into a pitcher. A knock-kneed lamb is warming by the Aga, there are freshly podded peas on the table and there is sourdough cooling. They make it look so lovely, this 19th-century drudgery….”

Writes Emma Beddington in “Sometimes I long for the life of a tradwife. Then I remember it’s a reactionary fantasy” (The Guardian).

“But I’m fascinated by tradwife life… It’s less the campy, colour-saturated, submissive 50s-housewife cosplay….” by Ann Althouse

This all goes to the hypocrisy of feminism in 2024. You can say that women can be or do anything, but then control them to be what you want them to be– just like you claim others were attempting to control them before.

It’s because it’s all about power over someone else. Nothing more, nothing less.

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