The tradwives movement, which has recently exploded on TikTok, is composed of young women who espouse the joys of adhering to traditional family values in a patriarchal marriage. The Onion asked women why they decided to become tradwives, and this is what they said.

“No sense in letting my 40 identical gingham blouses go to waste.”

  • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    721·
    8 months ago

    If I could find a woman who could pay all our bills on one wage I’d go house husband in a fucking heartbeat. I’m the better cook anyway.

    If you want to make that your personality thats the weird part.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      271·
      8 months ago

      Once upon a time: most of the jobs that made money were physically demanding or dangerous, birth control was unreliable, infant mortality was high, public primary school and childcare were basically non-existent, and housekeeping(cooking, cleaning, shopping, mending, etc) was a full time job by itself. These factors combined to solidify the role of homemaker, and strongly couple it to the sex which is burdened with pregnancy for half a year and naturally secretes baby food for some time thereafter.

      Once upon a time we also shat in quaint wooden closets in the backyard. Modern life contains myriad conveniences which largely reduce and decouple the burdens of the past. There’s nothing wrong with indulging in nostalgia if that’s your thing, it’s just gross to try to impose it on others.

        • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          8 months ago

          In this age? Yeah, basically. Like I said, indulge if it’s your thing, the problem starts when you start forcing others.

          • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            8 months ago

            That was my point too, the lifestyle sounds great. If you want to hang a bunch of ideological bullshit on it too then thats on you.

      • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Yeah I meant to type “If my wife could find a job that could…” but my brain backfired.

        She might not be a good cook but she really is the brains of the operation.

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    391·
    8 months ago

    ​“​I wanted to live all my internalized misogyny, not just dream about it.”

    “I believe in choosing a marital structure from an arbitrary point in human history and pretending it represents some kind of inviolable rule.”

    “I just couldn’t resist the raw sexual magnetism of an antisocial dipshit who gets all his information from podcast clips on YouTube.”

    Never change, Onion. Never change. <3

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    8 months ago

    They kind of petered out on the last handful but the front half had me cracking up.

  • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukEnglish
    51·
    8 months ago

    I’m a single cis hetero male in his late 30s. Got to admit I like the trad wife fantasy. But I also recognise it’s just that, a fantasy. Despite the fact it’s unlikely I’d get along with the sort of woman who’d agree to that sort of life, who the hell could even afford it? It’s something politicians can say “they took from you” so we look at “them” to distract from what those polticians are taking from you.

    I work as a Linux engineer (big surprise for a Lemming I know). I don’t make a huge amount of money but it’s still more than most people I know. I live a fairly comfortable life here in a not so great part of a somewhat deprived working class English town. I couldn’t afford to live in the countryside, let alone support someone else whilst there. Maybe if I did have a wife who made our clothes, was able to spend time to shop super frugally and made our food from scratch we’d be OK but we’d still live in relative poverty.

    Is that the hope of these trad wife influencers? That we’ll be so busy churning our own butter and erecting our own barns like the Amish we’ll have no time to react to them conquering the world?