"I looked around, horrified, at the children filling the rows and rows of chairs; girls as young as 5 attending with their mothers and grandmothers, young mothers rocking babies in their strollers, and high schoolers hanging on every word."

doomjak

I couldn't finish the article, that was incredibly bleak. How astroturfed is this movement? There is no way that young women and girls are seriously buying into this, right?

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There are plenty of women who aspire to be a housewife, without actually understanding the eventual legal ramifications that could occur if this whole 'trad-wife' thing actually goes the way of the 1950's.

Very few of these women actually understand that there are women still alive in the U.S. who could not legally have a bank account when they were in their 20's. And those that do don't actually believe that these Christian men would do that to them.

Mostly, they just don't want to have to compete in the capitalist rat-race directly, just through their husbands. That being said, this is a world view that is being sold to them through aggressive and deliberate marketing practices, it is subjugation repackaged as empowerment.

[–] Skye@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not American, but I imagine the intended audience for this is almost exclusively women and girls who have already been indoctrinated with the exact same bullshit their entire lives.

Like, that this whole thing Is more of a stunt to gather support from the regressive families that would already send their kids to an event like this rather than an actual attempt to popularize "tradwives"