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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a tick tocker or #tradwife but I laughed the first time I read and started hearing about it. I love cooking from scratch, baking, my own bread, canning and preserving my own food. I have a lot in common with these women, but I’m not anywhere near the spectrum of being a #tradwife. [/quote]

I guess I look like a trad wife. I retired early to be home with my kids (yes, I have my own money!). I make everything from scratch (cook, garden, sew, etc.) and love it and being around for my kids. I was in fintech in my old life. [/quote]

I do all this stuff too and my friends joke about me being a tradwife (I actually work nights!) but I wouldn't dream of posting VIDEOS of myself baking bread with a vacant expression, false eyelashes in place, narrating what I am doing in a Vicodin voice. Ridiculous[/quote]
I am 8:40 from yesterday, and I think the difference between us, who enjoy this hands on lifestyle with cooking and baking and taking more of a traditional wife role is the a difference between regular traditional wife and #tradwife. There’s something about making videos of yourself and posting them all over social media that is very self-absorbed and narcissistic. I think that’s what set us apart.

Now if you will all excuse me, I am finishing up a batch of granola and I have a bread that needs kneading. 😂
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I don't think that's what sets you apart. I think a ton of what people think is tradwife content is just the same old mommy blogger stuff done on Reels. Trad wives are "traditional wives." They strongly believe in traditional gender roles, and they think everyone else should too. There's a religious component to it. They are often dowdy because their content isn't so much about looking good (though sometimes it is); their content is about advocating for 1950s housewife roles. They will have posts about how silly working outside the home is, how women should have sex with their husbands even if they don't feel like it, how the most important thing anyone can do in life is be a mom, etc. in addition to cooking videos. [/quote]

Agreed.  I still work (although I wish I didn’t have to), but go in for all the crunchy homesteading stuff and focus my life around my kids in a big way and love the idea of a huge family — all that’s very tradwife of me.  I think the difference is that I feel like that stuff is very right FOR ME (because it makes me happy) but absolutely not right for everyone and there’s nothing wrong with the multitude of other ways people choose to parent.[/quote]

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