I never understood the hate towards tradwives. So a bunch of women want to stay at home, clean the house, take care of the kids, and cosplay as a 1950s housewife while cooking dinner for her family.
Who cares? How does this affect anyone else? 🤔
@GlytchMeister @JCAlexandreWrites
Who benefits from the narrative that women working inside the home and women working outside the home are enemies?
@AlphaCentauri @JCAlexandreWrites
I never said they are or should be enemies, I said there’s a correlation between families that are all gung-ho about there being a “tradwife” and those same families being comprised of misogynistic people who try to force that on others.
Wives who primarily do domestic labor are not inferior or morally antithetical to wives or women who are breadwinners. It’s the people who are saying shit like “women should be barefoot and pregnant” that are the problem…
@AlphaCentauri @JCAlexandreWrites
And you find THOSE people more often in communities or families that are overly loud about their families having “tradwives”, because they are often signaling that tradwives are more virtuous or are in their proper place or whatever.
@GlytchMeister @JCAlexandreWrites
But whose voices get amplified isn't random. No one ever asked my mother how she felt about getting fired from her high-skill job when she got pregnant and having to become a "tradwife," but the barefoot and pregnant people and the married-to-career people get lots of press, moved by unseen hands like marionettes in a puppet show.
@AlphaCentauri @JCAlexandreWrites
Ok so what’s your point here?
@GlytchMeister @JCAlexandreWrites
There are a wide variety of people with a wide variety of points of view. It's profitable for people who control media to concentrate on creating drama by publicizing only the extremes. Those media magnates themselves remain in the shadows while the rest of us fight among ourselves instead of unifying for a common cause, such as the right for women to make their own life choices.
@AlphaCentauri @JCAlexandreWrites
Ok.
…Am I fuckin with any of that by saying what I’m saying? Because all I’m saying the reason people get riled up by the TradCon/TradWife community is because the venn diagram of them and those who fuck with women’s right to choose their own lifestyle is almost a circle.
Aka you say group A is a problem.
I’m just explaining Group B overlaps a lot with Group A, which is why people get riled up by Group B.
Nobody here is saying Group A isn’t the problem.
@AlphaCentauri @JCAlexandreWrites
And the original question is “why do people get riled up by Group B?”
@JCAlexandreWrites I think it's the holier-than-thou attitude some of them get.
It's like the vegans who get in people's faces and call them murderers or the "christians" who chase you down and scream "Sinner gonna burn in hell" at you. Because that always works to get people to convert, right?
The stay at home moms are VERY lucky they can do so. (and afford internet to tell everyone else about it).
@JCAlexandreWrites
That’s not the problem. The problem is when they and others try to say that’s what all women are supposed to do, which is often the next words that pour outta the mouth of anyone who utters the word “tradwife”.