I don't get it.
Do you people like working?
this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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Preach it lady! Each can find a path in life that fits them. If you have to be pushed in a role by someone else who then tells you that is the only way for someone like you, you're not your own person, you're someone elses property.
Be free!
The problem is that we didn't encourage people to find a path that fits them.
Whenever we saw people taking a different path than ours or what we're comfortable with, we attacked and berated them until they changed or left.
This applies to everyone who belittled stay at home moms. They are part of the problem and a bunch of fucking hypocrites.
Hmm, yes I see your point. I'm very much in the process of raising a couple of daughters. I try to support them as best I can in achieving whatever they believe to be their path in life. I did tell them I did want them to at least give higher education a serious shot but they could choose whatever kind they liked and I would never be mad they failed at it, as long as they gave it an honest try. The post above does not ridicule homemakers, but the people who would reduce any woman to that role because that is "what women are for". My mother was a homemaker most of her life, she did get married and had kids later in life though and first was one of the few women of her time to get a university degree (graduated early 1950's) and worked both as a teacher and as an assistant professor before she had kids and after we got old enough not to need her all the time. I think your pointing out hypocrisy is rather cheap.
Personally, I'd prefer living alone to having a tradwife. It sounds so empty and unfulfilling for everyone involved
That's cool.
Nobody is forcing you to have a wife.
People who can find meaning in slavery might need to undergo some therapeutic treatment or more imo
At the very least they should get one of those BDSM slave contracts
What do they mean with "trad" anyway. Women used to work. Even noble women worked. They learned to defend their homes, hunt and do the accounts. They didn't just sit on their backsides and embroidered.
They probably meant working with chores around the domicile.
Embroidery is work, too
"Trad" likely refers to legal guardianship of the past, where women were essentially the property of men with no legal autonomy.
It means they don't like to make choices, have everything be governed by the 'natural' order.
They are deathly afraid about every decision they need to make in life and choose for the most comfortable option.
I kinda agree with choosing comfort in your life chooses, however actively choosing a trad wife lifestyle is a lot like saying freedom of speech doesn't matter because you've nothing to say.