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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you’re conflating some things. A lot of try wives are Mormon or various Christian sects that require virginity. So they all marry young simply for that reason. That’s a separate issue from tradwives and what they represent.

The logic is honestly pretty simple: modern women are often unhappy. If [b]all these feminist advances have not made us happier[/b], maybe we should go back to a simpler way of being? I don’t believe this or agree with it personally, but it’s a fair question to ask.

One thing interesting to me is trad wives have a surprising amount in common with Martha Stewart, ironically one of the most successful career women of all time. But Martha Stewart living was all about taking more pleasure in cooking, gardening, entertaining, and creating things with your hands. There is certainly value to these pursuits and women do not need to eschew them to be modern feminists.[/quote]

I think there is a huge problem with this premise. Is it true that feminist advances haven't made us happier? Who, women? Or men? I ask because marrying later, having kids later, having a career - these are all things that have made me, as a woman, much happier. But the people that I see complaining the most about it are men. So the whole premise behind wanting to go back to a simpler time seems entirely problematic and alarming to me.[/quote]

I am also happier this way but I could understand a younger woman looking at stressed out midlife moms like me balancing career, work, kids activities and saying “nah, I don’t want it.” The instinct/desire to get out of the rat race is not new. So yeah I get it completely. The premise is not the problem. The problem is overcorrection. At a population level, the average woman is not going to be happy with 8 kids and no financial prospects of her own. Also keep in mind that these influencers all still have very young kids where it is easy to throw yourself into raising them and make that your identity. They have not had to grapple with the stage where your kids are older/grown and identifying as a wife and mom does not fill your day the same way. (Related, a lot of the mom bloggers of the early 2000s had a very tough stage with that transition)[/quote]

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