‘Submitting to my husband like it's 1959': Why I became a #TradWife

[Duty]

#TradWives is a growing movement of women who promote ultra-traditional gender roles.

Search the hashtag ‘#tradwife’ on social media and you’ll see images of cooked dinners and freshly-baked cakes with captions like, “A woman’s place is in the home” or “Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman”.

The term ‘tradwife’ is particularly controversial because of its associations with the far right, especially in the United States. But many self-described tradwives reject that association.

Alena, who lives in the UK, says it’s about “submitting to and spoiling her husband like it’s 1959” - as well as supporting a return to “traditional English manners, lifestyle and values.”

Are these tradwives super "woke" or totally comatosed?   There's a video at this link where the txt is copied from: BBC item

[Abaddon_ire]

Do you desire that women be slaves?

[Duty]

Me? Hell no! The woman in the video doesn't really strike me as being a slave, I might add.

[no one]

Stupidity, is not a characteristic restricted solely to the U.S., though at times, it does seem like it is it's own exclusive commodity.

[arewethereyet]

I know a woman who lives this way. I don't get it but I suppose if you don't want to have any of the stress and financial responsibilities of being a grown-ass woman it can work for you. If you can just glide along through life without the pressure of making decisions and carrying them out in exchange for keeping a clean house, cooking gourmet meals, and being always available for sex then I guess it could be the life for you. (the global you)

[Rev. Rye]

So long as everyone involved is okay with it, I don’t see the harm. Domesticity is not the enemy; it’s society pretty much expecting women to be that way that’s the problem.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

In 1959 my mother didn't know how to drive a car. She only smoked when the Y-donor wasn't around. She didn't have a job outside the home. She didn't have any business transactions in her name. She needed her husband's permission to enter into a legally binding contract.

Sounds like paradise?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I’ll bring this up to my wife and let you know when she stops laughing.

Boru

[LastPoet]

I’ll bring this up to my wife and let you know when she stops laughing.

Boru

I will do the same. She claims I have been not humorous as of late.

[Duty]