Do you know what a 'trad wife' is? Yeah, me neither. But apparently it is a very dangerous and repressive social phenomenon practiced by thoroughly primitive and ignorant human cultures for most of time. Yes, there is nothing more dangerous to women than traditional gender roles. If you are of the female persuasion and married to a male human organism, especially if you have biological offspring and you spend more than 51% of your time caring for anyone's welfare other than your own, witting or not, you are in the middle of an existential crisis! This terrifying phenomenon is apparently trending right now on certain far left and ultra progressive media and social outlets as the worst thing to happen to humanity since the domestication of wheat and holsteins (that would be gluten and dairy type products for you far urbanites). So the real threat to women is not entire societies declaring that there is no such thing and saying that a man can be a woman if he really feels he is one but rather an XX chromosome possessor acting out traditional gender roles? Can this get any stranger...wait, PETA just came out in defense of mosquitos...I give up! Mosquitos are okay but being a mother who actually raises her own kids is bad?
I've noticed the 'raising your own kids is bad' phenomenon for a decade or more, at least if you are a female professional who chooses to stay home and raise her kids versus work so you can pay someone else to do it. But then most of the people complaining about it are people who are only concerned about their own convenience, ie. I need to work not just full time but every evening, holiday, and weekend because they might just need something on a whim, but then I also can't charge whatever it would cost me personally to make such astounding sacrifice or they'll complain about that too. I think the main issue here is an innate tendency towards selfishness and the thought of someone doing something selfless makes one uncomfortable ergo we must shame the selfless individual into selfishness too so we can feel better about ourselves! Do you have any idea what sort of a world that would beget, oh, you've noticed all the cultural shifts in the last decade too, okay, nuff said!
Moms are bad. Dads are bad. Marriage is bad. Family is bad. Police are bad. Kids are bad. Church is bad. Parents are bad. Traditional gender roles are bad. Jobs are bad. Personal responsibility is bad. Math is bad. Everything is bad except mosquitos and men who wear dresses? Yep, welcome to a progressive utopia! I actually got the idea for this little post from an article about an article proclaiming that 'trad wives' and their frilly dresses are racist, but I wonder if the writer of said article thinks men in frilly dresses are racist, probably not. Nothing like sitting at the apex of western culture and chipping away at the foundations of the society that gave you the prosperity and education to do just that! The worst part is that people like this can't laugh, they should be rolling on the floor, clutching at their bellies at such absurdity, but all they can do is frown and glower and complain about all the things that make life worth living (most especially cows!). Would a cow in a frilly dress be racist? Are cows or white people the worser evil? Are mosquitos okay because they carry diseases that kill people? If so, why are we not celebrating anaplasmosis or some other bovid bane? Do mosquitos ever wear frilly dresses? What about the gender roles innate within dipteran societies? Only the females bite, aren't we supporting 'trad flies' by supporting mosquitos? Preposterous yes, but there are people out there that take this sort of stuff seriously! Like the chick who wrote the original anti-frilly dress opinion piece.
I love how you can go from being just a 'normal' human being, doing life like we've done it since before recorded history (albeit with varying levels of technology) and all of a sudden you are a nazi evil racist homophobe just for living your life the way you think you should and not really caring what the ultraliberal end of society and the academic think tanks are musing upon these days. I thought their whole thing was 'we want to live like we want to live' and the vast majority of humanity is like 'sure, you do you just leave me out of it' but that isn't enough. Now it is 'you need to celebrate and approve what I do or you're evil' and it looks like soon we'll be entering 'live like we say you have to or you're evil.' What happened to all that 'live and let live' and tolerance mumbo jumbo? How come I can't live the way I want but I'm supposed to not only let you do whatever you want but celebrate it and not only celebrate but I can't embrace a different lifestyle because you find it offensive? Noticing a trend here? You can live any way you want as long as it is the way they want you to live. Even reality itself must bend to their perception of it, and woe betide anyone who has a different worldview or accepts life as we know it to be!
So being a married mother who doesn't have a full-time job makes me evil and radical and countercultural and bigoted and racist and homophobic and ten thousand other pejoratives? I'm evil just for being me. The sad thing is they won't like me any better if I conformed, because the person they are actually unhappy with is really themselves but it is somehow my fault, so I guess I'll just go on being me and enjoy my wretched little life whereby I offend so many! But unable to comprehend their own unhappiness and accept responsibility for changing it, instead they will destroy everyone else's. I really wish I could laugh, but really, I want to cry.
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