As long as everyone enthusiastically consents, they should get to live the life they want.

However, I have a suspicion the idyllic tradwife lifestyle only exists on social media, in content pushed into our feeds because controversy drives engagement.

Much like religion - I’ll fight tooth and nail to ensure you have the freedoms to choose that life if you want, but I want it as far away from me as possible.

Tradewives are distinct from stay-at-home parents in that they preach and proselytize their way of life and leave very little room for individualism and expression. There’s a reason so many of them online are white, blonde, and have as many children as possible. It’s a political movement.

My friend told me the other day how he’s getting fed video reels of tradwives and how the white race is disappearing. A clear push for him to want this type of life, to settle down and have children and keep a woman at home for his every need. It’s wild to see sometimes.

I don’t think anyone should be completely dependent on another, including for retirement. I feel sad for people who are and don’t have any other plan. Hopefully it all works out because if it doesn’t, that’s really hard for them.

If they’re real tradwives … I do not police what choices other women make. If someone wants to live the traditional life with women relegated to home support only, more power to them. It’s not a choice I’d make, but 🤷‍♀️ different strokes. I’m sure they’d be horrified at the lifestyle I lived for most of my adult life (poly and pan).

The performative tradwives, however, are, as @Hildegard@lemmy.blahaj.zone pointed out, essentially grifters. They’re playacting as tradwives to cater to a regressive base to make a living. They are actively damaging to women.

Every tradwife influencer monitizes their chamnels, which means the wife has an income too so they’re not a real tradwife. Everything is fake!

I like the concept of tradwifes, in the sense that I think every couple should be able to live in a house, afford to live comfortably, and raise children on a single income alone. Its not economically viable for basically anyone.

I would love to be able to be a transbian tradwife. Staying at home doing nothing but caring for the house and my two and a half children. While my wife, the other wife in the household, goes to work as the sole breadwinner as is her duty as the other wife.

Unfortunately I have to have a job too, which is bad.

I really dislike the influencers and people pushing it as a moral imperative. But I think it is handy to have any parent stay at home to manage the house and care for the kiddos.

i’d love to be a trad-climbing wife ;)

Not my business.

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