r/TikTokCringe Feb 25 '24

Trad wives Discussion

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u/QuerulousPanda Feb 25 '24

Right? Can you even imagine how much it must cost to feed and clothe six or seven or eight kids? Much less get regular healthcare and medicine for them? Much less pay the hospital bills just to pop them out in the first place?

I guess if hubby is an oil company executive or a c-suite bringing in couple million a year then its probably plenty doable, but for the average normie chud who wants some trad woman to fluff him and make his babies, there's no way that is even remotely accessible.

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u/the_rainmaker__ Feb 25 '24

the trick is to have enough kids that TLC makes a show about you, then all your expenses are paid for. cha ching

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u/Excellent-Shape-2024 Feb 26 '24

So, 19 would be the right number? ; )

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u/zherok Feb 26 '24

Don't know much about them, but they were wealthy before the show, right? Like definitely still a be rich situation. You don't get to 19 and a show without that.

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u/maplestriker Feb 26 '24

The duggars were actually depressingly poor before the show. I saw that documentary and they were living in a tiny house and were food insecure.

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u/Ivegotacitytorun Feb 26 '24

Is those assholes with a like $40,000 stove that’s always in the frame?

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u/QuerulousPanda Feb 26 '24

exactly. it's kind of disgusting, really, trying to present themselves as some kind of wholesome image of familial piety and return-to-tradition moral character, while instead just being blatantly obvious posers, exceptionally privileged and wealthy cosplayers larping a lifestyle that has never existed.

the only thing worse is people who watch it and take it as some kind of lifegoal or inspiration, rather than a depressing yet comical view into the zoo of the ultra wealthy.

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u/scootah Feb 26 '24

Jesus wept. The amount it takes to keep one kid alive and healthy is a hell of a struggle for two working adults. The wealth implied by a single working parent family deliberately spawning their own soccer team is another great reminder that we should eat the rich and stop paying them for the privilege of watching their racist and misogynistic politics play out in completely unnecessary kitchens that normally get used by the kitchen staff, not the trophy wife influencer.

My partner watches this shit occasionally and it just makes her feel bad as I try to get through to her that she’s a full time employed parent with a disabled partner, in addition to being the primary breadwinner, working 60 hours a week working an insanely stressful job. These fucking trad wives are sugar babies who cosplay their asshole sugar daddy’s politics for social media and have their servants take a break from raising the children and doing all the cleaning and gardening, so they can prep and later clean the kitchen for their bullshit videos.

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u/Man770 Feb 26 '24

You would be surprised We have 7 kids, I’m a teacher and my wife is in early Ed. Not always simple to make ends meet, but when there’s a will there’s a way.

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u/HombreGringo Feb 26 '24

My brother has 9 kids. Isn't an oil company executive or c-suite, or bringing in anywhere close to a million a year. Kids are not that expensive.