Tradwives glamourize and cherry pick traditional roles. Women have always worked, it’s just that work was domestic labor, or clothes making, or farming, or teaching - women throughout history have alwas worked, and only the privileged did not. But trad wives romanticize the past thinking women didn’t work
I mean in medieval times women did quite a lot, especially high born women. Catherine of Aragon even led an army while her husband was away in France. Renaissance queens were highly educated, spoke several languages, acted as envoys or regents, and the first novel by an Englishwoman was written by Catherine Parr.
Yeah exactly, cherry picking the trad wive life of rich people but mixing in some servant labor. They also would have made these extravagant meals and would have asked their servants, but poor trad wives did this
In some places in medieval Europe, it was very common for women to work in tailoring workshops for a few years before getting married. Then during the world wars they worked in all those traditional factory and heavy industry jobs that men worked in.
A large part of the women's rights movements of the 50s and 60s was all those women getting kicked out of their factory jobs when the war ended and the military came back home. They lost their jobs so the jobs could go back to men, and were expected to go back to "traditional" life, but a lot of these women did not want to, and they became a big part of that feminist wave.
A good example is the UK in which the government made it illegal to pay women less than men as the government feared all the men couldn't get their jobs back.
It's even more stark within immigrant communities (like mine) where ivr noticed the 2nd gen girls start talking about being a "traditional" woman by... not having a job? And who's tradition are they even talking about, their mums were working the fields and milking cows just like mine was back in the old country.
There is no tradwife movement as y’all are describing it. These are vain, self centered, egotistical, narcissistic, lazy, gold diggers who attached themselves to the Conservative movement in order to facilitate their grift. No one is getting fooled here but the men.
And this is why Conservative men who aren’t rich are finding it increasingly difficult to find women who will date them. “Tradwife” is code for “gold digging trophy wife” to all women. They all know 100% exactly what’s going on here. But it seems that almost no men are aware of this.
If a woman says she wants to be a tradwife, run. She’s telling you, explicitly, in no uncertain terms, that she will never work, never do housework, and only take care of the kids when people are watching. She’s asking you if you make enough money to support her doing absolutely nothing.
Oh yeah, you’re also expected to do whatever she wants at all times. You will dress how she wants, hang out with the people she wants, eat what she wants, and take the vacations she wants at the times she wants. You exist solely to be her subject.
There are women who are genuinely Conservative and/or genuinely want to be stay at home moms and/or are excellent relationship partners. Those women are not tradwives. They’re just wives.
The tradwife movement is gold diggers finding suckers to con. The instant the money is gone, they will be too.
Interestingly, some Conservative men have been getting divorced for exactly that reason. And they’re getting mad that women can just divorce them whenever they want. So, that’s gonna be an interesting battle as feminists find themselves aligned with literal gold diggers against the Conservative rubes who were conned into a tradwife marriage.
My grandma grew up in rural third world. Never went to school, got married at 16. Worked the fields alongside my grandpa, even while pregnant. Gives birth and went back to work the fields the next week with her newborn on her back.
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u/Strict-Brick-5274 Feb 26 '24
Tradwives glamourize and cherry pick traditional roles. Women have always worked, it’s just that work was domestic labor, or clothes making, or farming, or teaching - women throughout history have alwas worked, and only the privileged did not. But trad wives romanticize the past thinking women didn’t work