It is weird because it is a lifestyle that is entirely fictional when you come right down to it. It is based on an “ideal” of family and women that existed more in television than life. In real is a role that women were FORCED to accept because laws did not allow them to open a bank account without their husband, to get loan, a mortgage or a credit card no matter how much of a wastrel the husband was. When a woman married she could be fired because she “no longer needed the job”.
Part of the Trad Wife thing is that she completely subordinates her sense of self to her husband in the ideal of a fifties “housewife”. She is discouraged from intellectual conversation, her work rearing children and maintaining a household is largely unacknowledged as “work” and subordinated to her husbands “real work”.
And here’s the thing…women not only fought hard for the right to have a career, but they also fought to have their work raising children and managing a household to valued as work as well.
But that isn’t what the Trad Wife movement really is. Many Trad Wives don’t even have children for example.
Men and women bring different strengths to a relationship, but those aren’t necessarily aligned with strict gender roles. A man might be the primary breadwinner but his wife might be more astute with managing their finances. A woman might have the better career options and a man might have a work from home job enabling him to be the one there with children, and he may enjoy that. Or they might split it.
OR, what is much more realistic, and has often the case for many women…they can’t afford to live on just one salary. That is why the Trad Wife thing usually requires a degree of wealth. If you look at the most visible “influencers” for it, their husbands bring in a lot of money which allows her the choice.
? What does government have to do with it?
It is about choice.
What does that have to do with anything other than a redirection?
I don’t watch long videos. I do read a lot however and reading is my preferred mode.
