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"You’ve seen the videos: A woman, apron tied around her waist, plunges her
hands into a bowl of soft, bubbly dough. She speaks in dulcet tones — or
perhaps not at all — as she details the two-day process of mixing, proofing,
and baking a loaf of sourdough. She makes cheese from scratch for the homemade
macaroni and cheese that she lovingly serves to her children. She presents it
as a meal, yes, but also as an opportunity to avoid the “toxic” dyes and other
chemicals lurking within the blue Kraft box. This woman isn’t just a mother, or
a wife, but a tradwife.
If you haven’t seen these videos, or somehow managed to miss out on the
tradwife phenomenon entirely, tradwife (shorthand for “traditional wife”)
content is essentially a group of mostly young, almost exclusively white women
who insist that a simpler life of cooking, cleaning, and raising babies is the
most fulfilling pursuit of womanhood. To best adhere to this “traditional”
lifestyle, they say, women must cook, clean, and rear children, all in service
of their husbands. They glorify the exhausting work of cooking every single
meal from scratch while making allusions to — or outright arguments for —
reclaiming the virtues of modesty, chastity, and diligence in the home. And
usually they do this in flowy, immaculately clean dresses. Unsurprisingly, the
moral problem of the tradwife has been debated at length. At best, it’s a
veiled attempt to reinforce regressive views about the role of women, and in
doing so, walk back decades of feminist progress. Some argue that the tradwife
“movement” is also intrinsically rooted in white supremacy.
And yet I cannot stop watching."
Via
Fix the News:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
