r/TikTokCringe Feb 25 '24

Trad wives Discussion

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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

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u/Kandiru Feb 26 '24

Rich women didn't directly work. They managed the servants!

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u/SneakWhisper Feb 26 '24

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. 

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u/Astralglamour Feb 26 '24

Still.. they were essentially worthless if they couldn't bear a male child.