The insidious rise of "tradwives": A right-wing fantasy is rotting young men's minds

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The insidious rise of "tradwives": A right-wing fantasy is rotting young men's minds
There's serious money in peddling fantasies of female submission online, but it may be exacerbating male loneliness

By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 27, 2023 6:00AM (EST)


(Salon) If the average American were asked what they imagine the priorities of the feminist movement are these days, most people would likely cite concerns like "fighting abortion bans" or "getting justice for sexual violence victims" or boring mainstays like "equal pay for equal work." But if you listen in to the world of right-wing social media influencers, they have a different answer. To them, feminists are single-mindedly obsessed with destroying women who identify as "tradwives."

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"Tradwife" is internet slang for "traditional wife." It's largely a social media trend of conventionally attractive white women putting out TikToks and videos gushing about the joys of submissive marriage and "modesty," though notably this "modest" clothing often leaves little to the imagination.

It's a neat marketing trick from tradwives to position themselves as a dangerous threat that feminists are desperate to take out. It helps sell the central, lucrative fantasy to credulous audiences: That female submission is a woman's natural desire, one that's being stolen from them by sinister feminist forces. And that you, male viewer, would be gifted with a compliant helpmeet of your very own, if not for those dastardly feminists. But these brave women of YouTube, with their picture-perfect make-up and slender-but-curvy physiques, will stand up to those bitches and restore your birthright: A smoking hot 22-year-old housewife who never talks back, never gets tired, never says "no," and never gains weight, no matter how many children she has.

By feeding conservative audiences a largely imaginary war with feminists, the tradwives are also pulling off another sleight of hand: distracting from how their content preys upon men, especially young men, by selling them a silly fantasy as reality. In the process, they're contributing to the male loneliness epidemic, by discouraging young men from developing the skills and mindset they need to get a real girlfriend, instead of just subsisting on a steady stream of social media delusions. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/27/the-insidious-rise-of-tradwives-a-right-wing-fantasy-is-rotting-young-mens-minds/

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Grooming, aka brainwashing: Trust me; believe me; everyone else is lying to you.

[Girard442]

2. The irony is that if these dudes hooked up with their dream gal...

...basically a golden retriever with boobs, they'd be astonished to find how fast that got really old.

To have a real relationship, you need a real person.

[niyad]

6. And you have to BE a real person.

[lonely bird]

11. Most definitely

Well said.

[IronLionZion]

13. A golden retriever sounds good

I've seen women describe themselves as golden retrievers on dating sites

[niyad]

14. WHY? ? ?

Okay, I tell people that I am a cat. . meaning, beware of my claws. A warning.

[IronLionZion]

15. Enthusiastic, joyous, playful approach to life

Golden retrievers are so lovable. They're among the most popular pets.

[LiberalArkie]

3. Just another name for the class of women who want to have the same benefits as a "trophy wife"

No 9 to 5 grind for all those clothes and nice car. No having to get up early on the morning except to make sure the coffee maker is working for him. Just trying to be a teenage girl with no responsibilities in life except to be a nice trophy wife to a car mechanic.

hmm. yea sure..

[Demovictory9]

4. Amala Ekpunobi...ugh...playing anti woman and anti Black for likes

[slightlv]

5. Women, brainwashed or not

Are the worst enemies of our own gender sometimes.

These tradwives are going to be in hurtsville when their 'Master' determines all this has given them too much exposure and too much power. They aren't suppose to have power, let alone wield it. It will be turned back on them at some point. I hope they realize this is what happens all too often with "collaborators." But I doubt it will wake them up. Too bad we know what will happen after they pump out a few of those babies in a few short years. Youthful figure? Ha!

[AverageOldGuy]

7. My non-trad wife of 57 years . . .

. . . took one look at this article and uttered some comments not usually heard in mixed company.

Ditto for my daughter who is a single lady of a certain age and is perfectly happy with her life.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. I think fake female bots are seeding the idea in social media

It's all a scam

[kimbutgar]

9. Driving back to the Bay Area from Phoenix yesterday

Saw a guy in a big truck with a stencil on his truck that said Tradwives only allowed. He looked like an incel and had extremely dirty hands and an ugly beard shabby beard. We were stuck in traffic in Ojai and I couldn’t help watching him for awhile luckily he saw I was an older woman and looked away.

I wondered what a tradwife was now I know. And if I was a young single woman I wouldn’t want to have anything to do with him. Maybe a desperate woman but not a smart one!

[FakeNoose]

18. So many of them are hopeless

No wonder they're single and lonely.

Simple cleanliness and grooming, along with a cheerful personality, go a long way.

[kimbutgar]

19. Exactly

I feel sorry that their Mommy’s never told them how to treat a woman with respect.

[chouchou]

10. I've always wondered how many great and helpful...

..scientific discoveries have been lost, simply because (in the past), half of the population were stuck
in an environment that women might not want to be in.
True, a share of women have made some discoveries in medicine and science, but it could have been
WAY more. History could have a page like>>>>
"In 1957, Amanda Briggs and her team discovered the sequence of Amino acids which had a new class of 20 molecules that combined to form the basis of the wonderful flu vaccine."
YES..Amanda and her team helped millions of citizens, regarding the common flu and cold.
(Don't trash me for not being solid terms...I'm a dietitian )

[mopinko]

12. the usual practice is for some man to steal the idea.

presuming she got far enough to prove it.
but u r right. so much of humanity’s promise just left behind.

[Ziggysmom]

16. What a joke. Simple minded, smokin hot 22 year old, fast forward a few decades, and the

husband leaves her for a younger tradwife. She has wasted her life and has no skills or job experience, other than being a slave-like kept woman. But she was following the Bible!!

[Auggie]

17. In addition to "rotting minds" it could be laying the groundwork for new conservative "promises" ...

... a return to "traditional family values" (wink, wink), for example. This is ripe for exploitation by right-wing think tanks.