FEMINISTS BEWARE! Meet the women who want to be TRADWIVES
 

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Forty years ago, newly-wed wives might have expected a pristine set of Elizabeth David cookery books
as a wedding present - a then socially acceptable reminder of wifely duties to feed and nourish loved ones.

While women clearly no longer need solely to define themselves by their nurturing role, in sharp contrast to the
“slummy mummy” school of blogging, there is an emerging trend to focus on the joys of a traditional domestic
setting, accompanied by the social media hashtag, #TradWife.

It seems that sane women in their tens of thousands are throwing out microwaves and power suits, and investing
their time and energies into the wholesome domestic arts of cooking, baking and homemaking – ironically finding
a new revenue stream as a result.

Feminists have been enraged by this 1950s-style movement, some describing it as analogous to the far-Right,
where in the US in particular housewives and bloggers like Dixie Andelin Forsyth willingly ‘submit’ to their husbands, Gilead-style.

Andelin Forsyth has more than 100K community subscribers and provides video instruction on every aspect
of tradwifehood, from harmless bread making to the more eerie topic of greeting your husband at the end
of the day. Here in the UK, traditional homemaker and author Alena Pettitt runs ‘feminine finishing school’
Darling Academy, which provides inspiration, guidance and empowerment for stay at home mothers.

She argues that tradwifehood is just another choice for women and in no way anti-feminist.
Once a stressed-out marketing manager, she now describes herself as ‘household CEO’;
with a much higher status role, saying it gives her greater control and therefore more satisfaction and purpose in life.

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“Social media content is often content for entertainment’s sake,” says McCorquodale.
“Followers of #TradWives are looking for positive distraction from their lives. And bloggers like Pettitt or
‘cleanstagram’ stars like Mrs Hinch are intelligent women who have stumbled upon an unanswered
demand and are ultimately monetising the trend.”

Balancing home and work isn’t exactly a new thing. Women have been working around their
families for all of time. A fetishised 2020 nostalgia for home and hearth may feel like a retrograde step
for enlightened feminists, but there are plenty who are running families and subsequent businesses
successfully without the cultish hashtag.

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Are you attracted by a Tradwife Life?

:laugh2: Good luck to them, I prefer a more balanced team type relationship than unpaid servant but each to their own

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Neem do you know how to greet Gav when he returns home from work?

He gets home before me and he greets me with a kiss :love:

Each to their own if that's what they want to do, in a relationship,I don't care who does what as long as it gets done. I don't really think about the equality of it all.

I'd imagine you would if it was unequal though, It would only be on your radar if things seemed unfair

Its all about choice, I think there is a place for housewives and househusbands if that suits their lifestyle and they are fulfilled and happy, not everyone wants to do a 9 to 5 or wants to be a CEO or have a high powered job and this applies to men and women, some men/women are very happy to stay at home fulltime, I haven't worked full time for 22 years and I love it :hehe: and honestly at this point in time I think I could quite easily quit my job and never look back :laugh:

who puts out the bins in your houses?

I put them out sometimes, sometimes Mr C, these dark nights because the side gate has a padlock with a number combination, I put them outside the gate in the light and Mr C brings them down the drive when he gets home, teamwork makes the dream work :laugh:

I bring the rubbish and paper and plastic recycling to work and use our bins there and Gav does the glass and tin recycling in the recycling area near the Supermarket when he's going food shopping

Usually Jay, but sometimes I will do it.

poor Gav with all neems gin and wine bottles - he must be there ages getting disapproving glares from all the Cork Tradwives

Port and Wine bottles* :hee:

That's not so you can be a #tradwife though Cherie, that's so that you can spend all day long on here flirting shamelessly with young gay studs!

Each to their own.
I loved working, I loved staying at home with the kids.
Hubby worked shifts all his life and still helped around the house and babysat.
Now he has retired early, and become the househusband.
We have never considered ourselves anything other than equal:shrug:

:laugh: that so true, I won't suddenly turn into someone who bakes :oh:

I think a good relationship doesn't have set unmovable roles, you roll with the punches and adapt as is necessary, I worked part time until Luke started school because it suited us and our jobs at that time, when I went back full time Gav was in a different more flexible job so he was around the house and with the kids more, you work together and do what makes most sense at any particular time :love:

We have well-defined roles

The TL makes a mess and I clean it up

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I bet womenfolk are quaking in their boots bc a few of them enjoy being masochists :laugh:

Feminism is all about choice at the end of the day and making sure that women have the same choices that men do. If a woman wants to be a homemaker then that's as valid as them seeking another path because it's their choice but relationships aren't about being subservient to the other person, that's just got all the signs of an unhealthy and toxic relationship.

I don't think relationships can work if they are unequal. It'll never work if one person has a position of power over the other.

A traditional new right sociological perspective from a right wing newspaper ...shocker.

Of course there are women who are subservient, the difference is now thanks to pioneering women it's a choice not an expectation.