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AwareMama's avatar

Fran! This article..! So well said.

These ideas have been top of mind over here too.

On the homeschool journey you’re sure to meet:

A libertarian anti-vaxer, who’s mistaken personal preferences for “freedom”

A a traditional Christian values homeschool family who teaches “religious science”

A homeschool influencer of various flavors, trad-wife being one.

AND us… the hard left leaning, rights of the child, social justice minded, approaching the journey as an opportunity for the familial (r)evolution … we need a hashtaggable short-hand.

I really enjoyed this article, Fran. 🖤

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Anna Hewitt's avatar

I appreciate all the research and details you've included! I have been thinking about this topic a lot and hope to write something about eventually. I think about how I would love to see our society value care work and domestic activities and move away from the idea that women have to lean in or do things the way men do in order to gain power and value. And it is interesting to me that in some ways the internet trad wives are promoting care work and domesticity and making money or fame from these pursuits, giving domestic work more value. But of course they do this while also, presumably, supporting systems and ideas that are exclusive and harmful.

As much as I think about all this trad wife stuff, I tend to stay away from actually looking at their accounts and reading your piece also made me realize that I find it hard to believe that women really do submit to men and give up agency. Partially because the trad wives on social media are at least able to run their accounts and probably also because I am in my liberal SAHM bubble.

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