I’m not sure when I first heard the term “TradWife.” It seems to have seeped into vernacular gradually in that when the think pieces started coming out, I already cultivated a sense of what the TradWife trend was.
For whatever reason, I cannot get enough of trad wives, and I can’t get enough of trad wife think pieces. Perhaps it’s from growing up home schooled — another example of how these ideologies become circles. Most families I knew were either more conservative or more liberal than the mainstream, and they all wound up homeschooled. Thank you for this.
Woof, so much of my upbringing is implicated here.
Maybe I’m being defensive about my current rural-hippie-world, but it does feel important to stress that there is a version of homesteading that isn’t as “tradwifey.” I know a man who chops the firewood AND bakes the bread, if you can believe it.
Oh absolutely! I think Tradwives are outliers in many ways. But there's a slippery slope with it when it's on social media. I still follow a lot of back-to-the-land kind of folks (men included), but there are occasionally some kind of radical off-kilter things that seep into the feed from some folks that catch me off guard. You should listen to the "Sounds Like a Cult" podcast about it. Ann Helen Peterson talks about this a bit.
For whatever reason, I cannot get enough of trad wives, and I can’t get enough of trad wife think pieces. Perhaps it’s from growing up home schooled — another example of how these ideologies become circles. Most families I knew were either more conservative or more liberal than the mainstream, and they all wound up homeschooled. Thank you for this.
I'm totally sucked into it as well for no other reason than it fascinates me! Also, the "Sounds Like a Cult" podcast recently did an episode on homeschooling. I bet you would find it fascinating! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cult-of-homeschooling/id1566917047?i=1000651166922
Woof, so much of my upbringing is implicated here.
Maybe I’m being defensive about my current rural-hippie-world, but it does feel important to stress that there is a version of homesteading that isn’t as “tradwifey.” I know a man who chops the firewood AND bakes the bread, if you can believe it.
Oh absolutely! I think Tradwives are outliers in many ways. But there's a slippery slope with it when it's on social media. I still follow a lot of back-to-the-land kind of folks (men included), but there are occasionally some kind of radical off-kilter things that seep into the feed from some folks that catch me off guard. You should listen to the "Sounds Like a Cult" podcast about it. Ann Helen Peterson talks about this a bit.