What is #TradWife? Conversation Magazine explains it’s short for traditional wife, and it means adopting a 1950s-esque lifestyle today. Tradwives say they’re rejecting hustle culture and capitalism to embrace motherhood and domesticity
Political-Research-Associates says some TikTok Zoomers are getting really into the tradwife life. Some have alt-right/extremist beliefs, others don’t
This TikToker thinks more women are interested in being a tradwife because tradwives sell an appealing fantasy to women who feel crushed by the reality of the modern world
Some #TradWife TikToks -- like this one -- pit tradwives against modern feminists. The TikToker implies that women had it way better before modern feminists pushed them into the workforce
Mashable totally disagrees: Feminism isn’t why women feel modern malaise. It’s the patriarchal, capitalist society we live under. It forces women both to work and to clean and care for the kids
I-D is way critical: Gen Z’s nostalgia for the tradwife life is both anti-feminist and mostly about not wanting to work hard
And this TikToker thinks the #TradWife movement is racist -- after all, only middle and upper class white women attain the fantasy
But this self-described tradwife says this hate is misplaced -- the tradwife lifestyle is just for the women who choose to participate! And it’s not really a movement at all. Watch her TikTok here
Another tradwife writes in Evie Magazine: “No anti-feminism here. Tradwives are just women who value homemaking more than a career”
Dazed doesn’t see it that way: Your choices don’t exist in a vacuum! You’re promoting a toxic lifestyle
And maybe some TikTok tradwives have us all fooled. BuzzFeed reports that a few of these TikTok tradwife accounts are just trolls, parroting super conservative beliefs to get engagement