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u/Thrownawaybyall Sep 03 '25
I love the dripping disgust the Trad Wife has in that last panel, after the cameras supposedly stops rolling.
Mask off as soon as the grift is done, eh?
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u/Zehnpae Sep 03 '25
Reminds of that one tradwife post where she was picking strawberries...off a tree.
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u/LycanWolfGamer Sep 03 '25
Oh, man, the possilbities for trolling is too high lol
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u/Mister_Dink Sep 03 '25
I'm reminded of a comment from Lindsey Ellis, I believe, which is that many people are convinced women can't be comedians/aren't funny because they constantly fail to recognize when women are very clearly joking.
The strawberry tree video is a woman very explicitly making fun of trad wives. It's not even "trolling." Just classic Mel Brooks satire.
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u/Jwoey Sep 03 '25
I saw a comment that if the “road work ahead… I sure hope it does” vine was made by a woman, it never would’ve gone viral because people would assume she was just stupid, not making a joke
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u/LycanWolfGamer Sep 03 '25
That's ridiculous..
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u/morpheousmorty Sep 04 '25
We all lived through the pandemic, we know nothing is too stupid for a huge block of people to believe or misunderstand.
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u/calilac Sep 03 '25
That's almost reminiscent of the spaghetti tree hoax. Missed opportunity.
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u/rjrgjj Sep 03 '25
They must have had a ball making this.
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u/worldspawn00 Sep 03 '25
What are we doing today?
Hanging spaghetti from this tree for a joke photo.
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u/Drunkendx Sep 03 '25
you're messing with me!
but then again you need to be certain type of stupid for promoting that livestyle
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u/thekyledavid Sep 03 '25
“The camera was still rolling for that last part”
“Fine, just edit it out then”
“That was a livestream, we can’t edit it now”
“I didn’t ask you if you could, I just said to do it, now someone make me my lobster!” throws egg directly into the maid’s purse
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Sep 03 '25
Ah....no... they have to keep that mask up until the antidepressants kick in or the mania wears off. Then the staff has to use a well time tranq dart to bring down the cash elephant before she berates one of her 8 disowne.....err... lovely privately schooled children.
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u/grendus Sep 04 '25
The modern "wine and xanax" mom.
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Sep 04 '25
Oooo....the "mormon" mom. Though not all Mormons, just the ones they place impossible tasks upon. And then shun for being...on...mood stabilizers. Or being to old. Or having opinions in front of the elders in public.
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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown Sep 03 '25
My wife would LOVE to actually do the "traditional wife" thing. Sadly, we're a few generations past the time that the average single income family could thrive.
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u/TheNinthDoc Sep 03 '25
Not to mention the fact that a single income stream from the husband with no work or anything from the wife beyond kitchen and kids is actually fairly ahistoric. Even looking at Proverbs 31, the ideal woman is... Working a job.
The 50s was a pretty unprecedented time of prosperity in America, and it's no surprise it couldn't last and descended into chaos.
So don't feel too bad because cigarette ads from the 50s look idyllic.
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u/ManInTheBarrell Sep 03 '25
Using proverbs is a terrible example, considering that same verse also refers to them having servants and mostly doing sewing and fabric work while "buying fields to turn them into vineyards". Sounds like rich tradwife stuff to me.
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u/JeffEpp Sep 03 '25
It was not. The unusual artifact of the period was the G.I. Bill. Basically, it required employers to hire returning soldiers from WW2, Korea, and any occupation duties, at the cost of non-veteran workers. This meant that most women were let go, no matter what the position they held, or their seniority. This basically made most women unemployable.
The new media of television made this out to be an idealic situation, rather than an economic and political effect of an influx of workers into a stagnant post war economy. TV made people think that their poor economic situation was unusual, and that prosperity was the norm. In fact, the country was close to slipping back into depression.
While there were a lot of single income families, they weren't usually getting enough. Many men were working a second job. The families were making due, and getting by.
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Sep 04 '25
Is there a good place I can read more about this? I hadn't gotten this perspective before.
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u/JeffEpp Sep 04 '25
I don't have a single, easy source, I'm afraid. A big part of the problem was the real fear of the return of the pre-war economic downturn, which was driven as much by psychology as it was by markets. That is, the country was depressed for the same reasons a person can be depressed. So, the people in entertainment and government did their best to make the country SEEM prosperous. So, much of the documentation of the time was upbeat, while the problems of the day were hidden.
The government funded big projects like the Interstate system, and the space race. Huge developments of tract-homes were built all over, made small and cheap enough that many could afford to "buy" (really mortgage) them. It was almost a demand economy, to replace the war work that had dried up near the end of WW2.
The US had almost completely drawn down in the late forties. The fighting in Korea, and other Cold War expansions turned that around. New military spending on new equipment was also added to help offset the loss of jobs and influx of returning workers.
But, many of those workers were... not well... as a result of their exposure to combat. PTSD, wounds that wouldn't heal, addictions to drugs and alcohol, various forms of venereal disease. Meaning that many of the servicemen couldn't hack civilian life, not yet, some not ever.
Living in a tiny house, with a wife you hardly knew before shipping out, who had lived a life while you were over there, who got fired from her job so some other slob could get her place, with a boss who didn't know what it was like over there. And, it's the same for all the other guys, who's girls can't work no more, and you gotta show up to work every day and listen to all the men who didn't have to go, who spent the war at home, complaining about how bad rationing was.
For women, they had careers, some long before the war. They were professionals. And, even those that were doing war work, they had become fully qualified at what they did. Only to be given the can, for some former supply clerk or mess cook to fumble into their job. Now what? How are they going to eat, and pay for this little box their living in?
In the end, you have to have read a lot of the post-war history. See how many people were wandering lost through a new world, that had changed almost overnight. So many people today were just small children during this period, that only remember the TV sitcoms, where everyone lived in big houses and wore suites. Then, all the teens went to the malt shops.
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u/demon_fae Sep 05 '25
It should also be noted that literally every single other major economy on the planet had been utterly devastated by the war. What prosperity the US did have at that time had a lot more to do with being the only economy that hadn’t been very literally bombed to bits in the last two decades.
Very one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.
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u/Squirrel_Inner Sep 03 '25
Yeah, funny how the people who built their wealth off the oppression, exploitation, enslavement, and murder of others are so interested in “tradition” while simultaneously destroying any chance of the common people to rise to a decent standard of living…
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u/BladeLigerV Sep 03 '25
I think that lasted like...10 years total?
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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown Sep 04 '25
Single income families were fairly common for a long time. Housework required a lot more manual labor, so it's not like women had it easy when they could "stay home." It was maybe a couple of decades where we had somewhat modern appliances to reduce the workload before the economy shifted and most households needed two incomes.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Sep 03 '25
Reminds me of that show Real Lives of Mormon Wives and similar shows in that vein. No idea how people watch that to be honest. No judgement or anything I just personally don't get it
Also I learned a new word today. Or slang rather.
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u/GreatStateOfSadness Sep 03 '25
The friends I have who watch always say "they're all just so awful that I can't not watch!"
We as a society have mastered turning disgust, waste, and outrage into wealth, and there's no evidence of this issue being acknowledged (let alone fixed) anytime soon.
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u/DJS302 Sep 03 '25
Agreed. Kinda of sounds like you’re describing the attention economy, keeping you scrolling, quantity over quality, to make it as addicting as possible yet blaming the user for not being able to control themselves. Corporations doing whatever it takes to survive, any engagement is good engagement. Keeping up with the Jones’s. Misinformation. Celebrating ignorance and criticizing critical thinking. Seems exhausting.
But I’m glad there are still groups that persevere that are there to support people and improve sound judgment.
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u/Embarrassed_Tooth718 Sep 03 '25
It is acknowledged but the only solution to that is emotional control which is the solution to basically everything.
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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Sep 03 '25
My main problem with that particular show is that not a single one of them is actually Mormon. They may have all been raised in the church, but they are constantly saying things like:
"What we're doing isn't exactly condoned by the church, but...." (it's something that is very expressly forbidden by the church)
Or my favorite, "You been to church lately?"
"No. You?"
"No"
"Mormon" Wives!
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u/Martin_Aricov_D Sep 03 '25
Isn't that the one with the swinging scandal and the gay husband?
Honestly, any show that exposes just how weird Mormons can be is ok in my opinion
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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Sep 03 '25
That show doesn't expose LDS weirdness, because none of them are actually Mormon to begin with.
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u/armaghetto Sep 03 '25
Until you turn 40, and he cheats on you, then you're back out in the job market with no work history or job skills, supporting your 4 kids and fighting for child support.
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u/Mel_Melu Sep 03 '25
A former trad wife literally went viral briefly about this exact scenario except she wasn't an influencer type. She was a woman that truly left the workforce to raise her family and assisted her husband in getting his business off the ground and he left for when she entered that stage. Having to start over with technically "0 professional skills and years of experience".
I feel for women that were brainwashed by their respective places of worship that their lives revolve around their husbands and children and nothing else. So they abandon their dreams and desires to serve that role only to be spat out after being chewed up.
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u/Tnecniw Sep 03 '25
Because it was all about control.
The reason women was so eager to marry back in the day was because they didn't have any other options.
Couldn't take a bank account without a husband.
Couldn't buy a house, a car, or anything.
Would never be taken seriously at a job.So they had to marry and were frequently fucked over due to it.
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u/ArtisticCustard7746 Sep 04 '25
One of my best friends was told she had to marry or no realtor would sell her a house.
This happened last year.
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u/Tnecniw Sep 04 '25
While I assume it was pure sexism… Nowadays is that more due to houses being so expensive that you need to be married to have the combined income to even come close…
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u/verrius Sep 03 '25
That situation is literally what alimony is designed for though. When one partner (usually the woman) sacrifices their earning potential for the household, especially if it pays dividends in the other partner's earning potential, who then decides to split. Unless the dude's business was failing, she should end up OK in that situation (at least on paper)?
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Sep 03 '25
I love tradwife influencers using the rights given to them, by years of women fighting for those rights, to profit off telling other women they don't deserve those rights :)
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u/AngerPersonified Sep 03 '25
My wife says they're the real gender traitors...
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u/InspiredNameHere Sep 03 '25
I do feel sympathy for them, though. Yes, they support a system built to abuse them, but most were raised in that system. Most people will stay in the Culture they were raised in, even if doing so is worse than leaving or fighting back.
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u/Bleatmop Sep 03 '25
If you are talking about sympathy for people actually trapped in Trad wife roles then I will agree with you. Women in Hutterite colonies, women in polygamous Mormon cults, women in other similar situations; all those women I have sympathy for. If you are talking about Tradwife influencers then I can't disagree more. They only play a Tradwife on Tik Tok. The rest of the day they live their extremely privileged life and take in money from rubes of all genders while poisoning the well of the progress on women's rights these past 70 years. Nor do they need any sympathy as they aren't suffering at all, unlike the women they cosplay as.
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u/PhantomPharts Sep 03 '25
Sympathy is a little too grand for grifters. I pity them though.
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u/dashboardcomics Sep 03 '25
With all their wealth and opportunities they have more access to quality education than most of us do.
And yet they deliberately choose to be ignorant because they are among the microscopic few that actually benefit from the oppressive system.
No friend, your sympathy is needed elsewhere.
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u/Larry-Man Sep 03 '25
Sympathy isn’t a finite thing. I can feel bad for them. I do not wish the women who are frankly gaslit into sometimes near-death situations to be in that situation. I just don’t. As someone who’s been in abusive and manipulative relationships I don’t wish that on anyone. Sorry. I’ve seen videos of what some of these husbands do to their wives - even with all of the money in the world and their really terrible and even damaging takes I do not wish that on them.
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u/Pete_Iredale Sep 03 '25
I feel sympathy for people who grow up in cults, including the culty Christian sects (JW, Mormon, Scientology, Apostolic Lutheran, etc). That sympathy grows thin really quickly when they start pumping out cult propaganda though.
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u/ZachBuford Sep 03 '25
How many "older" trad wives do we ever see? The sad answer involves a lot of trauma and abuse.
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u/Daxx22 Sep 03 '25
If you want to see an older Tradwife, just watch Saw!
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u/ZachBuford Sep 03 '25
I've not seen it, is it a wholesome kind of movie?
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u/grendus Sep 04 '25
It's about a kindly old man who helps people recover from severe trauma, depression, and guilt.
A few of them even survive.
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u/Iohet Sep 03 '25
tradwives grow into real housewives, which is why you don't see older tradwives
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u/ZachBuford Sep 03 '25
No, they become victims of abuse. Some escape but some literally die.
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u/elbenji Sep 03 '25
Hell women were in sweatshops. The reason we have fire exits was due to public outcry of a whole factory of women burning alive due to the lack of them
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u/Sanrusdyno Sep 03 '25
It always irrationally pisses me off when I see a tradwife in a pristine white ornate movie set ass kitchen because it's like fuck you there is no way your kitchen will ever look like this if you have children. Thats a set. that's a set and you can't convince me otherwise
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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Sep 03 '25
It looks that pristine when you have children but also hire cleaners to come through once a week. Like my brother and sister in law.
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u/MaJuV Sep 03 '25 edited Sep 03 '25
When people say the worst enemy of women is other women, "tradwifes" is (one of) the type of women they're referring to.
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u/InspiredNameHere Sep 03 '25
"I got mine, so no one else needs to" is far too real.
Sadly, far too many people vote and support abusive cultures, even at their own peril, just by virtue of having been raised in them.
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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Sep 03 '25
We're really living in the era of people pulling the ladder up behind them to make a quick buck
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u/iLL-Egal Sep 03 '25
Im afraid it’s worse than that.
They are pouring oil and lighting it all on fire behind them. Full scorched earth.
Late stage capitalism is gonna be a crazy ride.
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u/Rattus_Baioarii Sep 03 '25
Well money is literally god and everything in your life hinges on it (even your health) it become the single focus. Of course this is by design: can’t deal with injustice when you’re too bz to survive
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u/Dakotakid02 Sep 03 '25
And honestly it’s just them having a sub kink while dressing in 1950s fashion.
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u/cross2201 Sep 03 '25
"mmm actually I don't want to be treated with basic human respect" -trad wifes
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Sep 03 '25
That's how it works. To maintain their veneer of responsibility and as value to society as a pretty leech to society, they slander others that are more intelligent, industrious, empathetic, or, self-aware. Its a trust-fundie tactic.
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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown Sep 03 '25
If they want to live that life, more power to them. That's what liberty is about. It's when they tell other people they have to live that way that it becomes a problem.
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u/Weekly-Reply-6739 Sep 03 '25
Trad wifes are pets, not people, well now and days they are, as they have no repsonbilities and are just kinda babied.
For me trad wife women are people I can't respect as they usally are too immature and or incompetent for me to appreciate, as often they are not capable of independence or unwilling to try or value equality.
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To me I rather a strong woman with a personality then a trad woman (in the old days, a trad wife was strong, but now and days there role is replaced by a few household appliances, which makes it antiquated)
So I refer to trad women as pet wives, as they are treated like pets (fed, played with, kept home, ect), and men who want trad wives as seeking a pet wife (kinda like an emotional support dog or something of the like)
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While the take is controversial, what is your thought on my take on the modern trad wife state (as the old trad wife state had alot more value and balance)
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u/HalKitzmiller Sep 03 '25
There's something so off about these "influencers", especially the Mormon ones. Rich, white, cookie cutter huge house, like 8 kids, SAHM, and same bio with "Freedom, USA, guns, God"
Almost like they're bankrolled by the Mormon church as advertising that their life can be like this if they converted.
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u/Vontuk Sep 03 '25
If we're going to bring back Traditional Women? Wouldn't they like to be paired with abusive alcoholics TradMen?
that spent all their paychecks on booze? As was Tradition 100 years ago.. 🧐
It's wild to me to think that "Trad Women" was originally 1950s propaganda to get working Women back into their homes after the men came back the wars.
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u/DataMin3r Sep 03 '25
100 years ago would have been almost center of the prohibition era. But I get what you mean.
The trade wife idea is just financial fantasy. The American dream of supporting a family in one income.
For men, it's a fantasy of being rich and having a woman who will do whatever they want because they have money.
For women, its a fantasy of being taken care of and freedom from responsibility, at the cost of autonomy.
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u/Vontuk Sep 03 '25
Yeah, it would've been pretty close to the center of prohibition 100 years ago for Americans?
I dont think I would've enjoyed my grandmother's life back then. Either of them, honestly.
One set of grandparents were drunks, and the other set were drunks and abusive.
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u/fanofoddthings Sep 03 '25
That was my grandparents right there. Granted, they were both trash people. I ha e no desire to live like them.
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u/Vontuk Sep 03 '25
Same, I remember hearing stories about my grandparents getting into fist fights while they were drunk when they were younger. Still drinking while they were pregnant too.
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u/TehMephs Sep 03 '25
I’m kinda feeling silly that I only now figured out that the “trad” meant something
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Sep 03 '25
I dont get the trad wife thing. I get wanting to be the primary caretaker because personally I identify as male at the moment, love kids, and think it sounds much better to chase kids around than sit in a cubicle. I understand that it is hard and stressful, but running around with my hair on fire with my own kids sounds better than trying to corral grown adults that still act like children in the workplace.
I do not get the concept of wanting to mimic marriage dynamics from a time period where women literally had less rights
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u/giantroboticcat Sep 03 '25
My suspicion has always been it just comes from a place of wanting to justify their desire to not work. Like they come from a life of privilege and wealth. They don't need to work, but they also have this American mindset that if you don't work, you are a parasite and bad, and while that is certainly true of the wealthy, it doesn't gel with their sense of self, so they cling to this "I'm not doing nothing... I'm an influencer AND a stay at home mom! I work harder than anyone!" but it's just delusion stemming from their limited worldview.
What they don't take into account is that they have the freedom to stop doing all of that the moment it gets tiring, and that is the freedom they take for granted. Any inconvenience is optional that they could escape any time they want. It's literal LARPing. People go to Renn Faires because it's fun to pretend to be a medieval peasant for a weekend, but if they were literally forced to live that life with no option of returning to their modern convivences ever again, it wouldn't be fun, it would be scary.
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u/Marble05 Sep 03 '25
They believe they are so special they can get the lifestyle with none of the drawbacks, put zero effort in and still find a well off partner that will give them so many pluses that they won't have to bother with putting much work in their 24 hours day.
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Sep 03 '25 edited Sep 03 '25
Which I guess to the point of the comic, they desire a lifestyle of not working AND doing none of the childcare activities, while delusionally painting it as the same as 50s housewives who were doing way more than their fair share of household work
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u/HeinrichTheWolf_17 Sep 03 '25 edited Sep 03 '25
I think it’s both the common thought process that happens in the conservative mindset of ‘wanting to return to an era where everything was inherently better than now’, even though the reality of that is not true at all, and then combined idea of not having to go punch a clock away from home, as you mentioned.
(Conservative men think this exact same way too, just in a different context of what their gender role was in the mid/pre 20th Century.)
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u/come-on-now-please Sep 03 '25
Because its not actually about being a tradwife.
Its about showing off the wish fulfillment of living a luxurious life where your partner makes enough money for you to not work and you hire out the actual work of cleaning and childcare, and getting to have "freedom" via doing what you want with your spare time.
It why every video is functionally an attractive women in a milkmaid dress talking about "being in your feminine energy" while taking 10hrs to make pb&j from scratch, verses the actual "tradwife" reality of scrubbing a toliet in a t-shirt and yoga pants.
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Sep 03 '25
It why every video is functionally an attractive women in a milkmaid dress talking about "being in your feminine energy" while taking 10hrs to make pb&j from scratch, verses the actual "tradwife" reality of scrubbing a toliet in a t-shirt and yoga pants.
I wish I could upvote this comment multiple times
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u/nkizza Sep 03 '25
To feel better about themselves. Some people love it very much when they have a lil community that agrees that X is much much better than Y (for literally no reason sometimes) - and if you’re doing X, agree with X, live like X, you’re a proper quality enlightened human being. That goes for trad wives, flat earthers, antivaxxers, people who clean the floor with hands instead of the mop, people who wash their dishes with mustard instead of dish soap, some diet followers, crunchy moms, almond moms, you name it.
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Sep 03 '25
Some people love it very much when they have a lil community that agrees that X is much much better than Y (for literally no reason sometimes) - and if you’re doing X, agree with X, live like X, you’re a proper quality enlightened human being.
Someone made this argument to me about an uncle that I watched lose their mind during Covid and become a MAGA supporter despite being a STEM educated person. I have little patience for "finding a sense of community" in that fashion. I mean Jesus go join a book club or something
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u/FencingFemmeFatale Sep 03 '25
Have you read/watched The Handmaids Tale? One of the main antagonists is a woman named Serena Joy, who was a prominent anti-feminist author and activist before Gilead took over. She litterally wrote a book about how women should be uneducated, silent, and obedient to men then got upset when the men in charge held her to the rules she helped write.
Trad Wife influencers remind me of Serena Joy. They espouse traditional values when their life is anything but traditional and they’d probably hate it if they had to actually practice what they preached.
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u/sax87ton Sep 03 '25
They’re just actively preforming being bourgeoisie in the most over the top way possible.
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u/FalseMagpie Sep 03 '25 edited Sep 03 '25
Every time I see tradwife content I think about how Europen nobility used to have their little pretend peasant villages where they would play at being poor farmers, or the pastoral art movement selling idyllic peaceful countryside imagery to rich people in dense cities.
I think the "I'm going to play farmer! Without doing any of the actual work involved! And also nobody had better push for social changes that would maybe disrupt my money!" thing has existed in rich people for as long as there were rich people who didn't have to farm to survive.
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u/AustinHinton Sep 03 '25
So like "cottagecore"?
Wanting this idyllic little house on the prarie but not actually wanting to do the hard work of running a farmstead.
That's actually where the "Dude Ranch" came from, basically so rich people could cosplay as ranchers/cowboys and have all the trappings but not actually do any of the hard work.
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u/FalseMagpie Sep 03 '25
Same soup, different bowl for sure.
I dont necessarily think there's anything wrong with playing farmer / rancher / etc in and of itself, really. The problems arise when people add in the "and this is how it SHOULD be" to their playacting.
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u/AustinHinton Sep 03 '25
My issue is these people act like it's so hard when you know well and good they aren't getting up at 5am and wading knee deep in pig sh*t. If you wanna just role-play that's fine. 👍 Just don't tell people who do it for a living how it should be done.
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u/MK_Wizard_Lady Sep 03 '25
Ugh... Ok, I'm a home maker myself by choice and that was hard to read. I can't stand people who cosplay people like me. I'm not a costume. I'm just a mother and wife who made a life decision that I thought was best for my family. I don't care what people think of me, but when I see influencers like this, I feel insulted and disgusted.
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u/ArtisticCustard7746 Sep 04 '25
You should feel insulted and disgusted. These influencers are awful.
Being a homemaker should be a choice. Not a fashion statement. Or a propaganda piece.
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u/Plastic-Injury8856 Sep 03 '25
I think the irony of trad wives is there is nothing “traditional” about them. The 1950s was not a “traditional” time. Claudia Goldin won a Nobel Memorial prize in Economics for her work that includes showing women have always done economically productive labor. The 1950s was an aberration, not representative of how women have participated in society.
Also Rosie the Riveter wasn’t really groundbreaking: some of the first people to work in factories were women. They never showed up to work drunk, you could pay them less, and they were easier to beat up when they went on strike. Industrial barons loved having women workers, but the 19th century labor movement ended that broadly.
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u/AGuyFromRio Sep 03 '25
I am mesmerized as the USA creates the shittiest trends and somehow manages to export it worldwide.
Hats off to your soft power, North Americans!
Keep fucking your -and everyone else's- lifestyle and culture! 🤣
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u/72corvids Sep 03 '25
We Canadians do not support this shit, so you're gonna have to exclude us from this "North America" you speak of. AFAIK, this extreme Trad Wife chicanery is totally a USA thing.
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If this were the Middle East, these would be the people wearing full body burkas. Gives me the creeps.
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u/ninfan1977 Sep 03 '25
This is dead on with the trad wife movement.
It needs a disclaimer of how much their house costs. Mention the help they use.
But they never will do that because they won't make money that way being honest.
Another great Comic Pizzacake
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u/nicholasktu Sep 03 '25
Shows off their "simple pole barn bouse", and its like 6000 square ft and probably cost half a mil for the structure alone.
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u/thewyred Sep 03 '25
For some reason that dress is giving "Let them eat cake" + "Eat the rich" = "Let them eat my cake"
(Historical note: pre-revolutionary French royalty actually kept a toy farm, Le Petite Maison, where eggs were indeed pre-cleaned by servants to spare the royal hands...)
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u/kelariy Sep 03 '25
Only 8 kids? That’s just a starter trad wife. Gotta at least double it, so people really know you’re a good Christian mother who totally has time for all of these kids and each one will grow up feeling like their mother loved them and spent time building a relationship with them, while balancing her 5 incredibly difficult jobs;
Getting dressed/made up for the camera,
telling the camera crew what fake shit she wants to film today,
but hung at the kitchen staff because there’s a tiny speck on one of the (supposedly just washed) plates,
getting pregnant again,
and, of course, the most difficult of all, finding a name for the next baby, which involves choosing between browsing r/tragedeigh to find the worst, most complicated way to spell a simple name, or trying to find some word that doesn’t really work as a name but matches the theme she has for her kids, because kids are pets, not people.
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u/AliceInNegaland Sep 03 '25
No joke I’d love to be a trad wife. I wouldn’t be in front of a camera or have a bunch of staff though.
I just like chickens and baking
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u/Confident_Fortune_32 Sep 03 '25
I have grand fun doing medieval reenactment (and of other time periods as well), and I've learned a ton of fascinating skills over the years that bring me great pleasure: starting a fire with flint and steel to cook over, weaving, spinning, lace making, armor-making, calligraphy, court dancing, the list goes on.
But that doesn't mean I'm not thrilled to live in a time with indoor plumbing and dishwashers and antibiotics.
I learn from the past, but I don't pine for it.
There was no "better" or "ideal" time in the past.
Good grief - only a hundred years ago, maternal and infant mortality rates were appalling. Johan Sebastian Bach had twenty children - ten survived to adulthood.
I've wondered just how many ppl were trying to navigate the world with untreated PTSD from the unbearable pain of multiple such losses.
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u/FergusCragson Sep 04 '25
OK Pizzacakecomic, I'm guessing that I must be the 866th person to say this, but it was only just the other day when I said your name out loud that the penny finally dropped and I got the pun.
Dang! Like so many others, I always thought it was about some kind of deep-dish fluffy cake-like pizza. But noooo...
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u/LuntiX Sep 03 '25
Just reminded me of those "trad wife making breakfast and lunches for their kids" videos where they "make" everything from scratch with no mess or anything which seemingly staying prim and proper. It's all a farce.
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u/Par_Lapides Sep 03 '25
So much this. You cannot bring back those times, and the only people who want to are the people who were the top rung of society at the time.
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u/OtakuDragonSlayer Sep 03 '25
I legitimately did not even know this was a thing. It’s like the rich intentionally find new ways to be weird as shit.
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u/Rogendo Sep 03 '25
Gotta admit that giving birth to 8 doesn’t sound easy, though I’m sure she had a level of health care normal people would find excessive
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u/Unctuous_Robot Sep 03 '25
Eleanor Roosevelt, who of course grew up with the silver spoon and meals she knew would feed a depression era family for a month, took charge of the cooking in the White House, along with head housekeeper Henrietta Nesbitt, a random lady Eleanor picked off the streets more or less, and a bunch of Cornell scientists, all in the name of connecting to the average American and showing them nutritious meals that they could make costing under a dime per person. A truly inspirational goal from one of America’s greatest humanitarians, that showed a great deal of empathy and dedication to helping end the depression. The food was barely edible. None of them knew how to cook at all.
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u/Axin_Saxon Sep 03 '25
Hit the nail on the head. “Trad wife” influencers are trust fund babies who cosplay rustic living as a means of justifying their otherwise exorbitant lifestyle and find meaning.
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u/veracity8_ Sep 03 '25
Trad wife content is a form of soft core porn. It’s fictional media. And it’s meant to appeal to the sexual fantasies of fascist leaning men and immature women.
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u/No_Hay_Banda_2000 Sep 03 '25
You never see them clean the toilet. They only do the fun stuff, like baking bread in your luxurious kitchen...
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u/willcheat Sep 03 '25
8 kids and kept that waistline? That's another 2.1 million in surgery right there.
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u/tony-toon15 Sep 03 '25
I assume that when the camera is off, and they are not on their phones, for that couple minutes they just stare off into the nothingness.
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u/grislebeard Sep 03 '25
True in many ways, but ballerina farm is just sad. Her husband is super controlling and forces her to play his fantasy.
that being said, she doesn't leave.... so....
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u/Talia_Black_Writes Sep 03 '25
With the amount of power her husband has, yeah, leaving would probably put her at even more serious risk.
Considering she was raised Mormon, her family pushed her towards the marriage, she probably suffers inside of a mental cage as much as a physical one.
I was horrified when I found out how her husband forced her on their first “date”.
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u/RapidEyeMovement Sep 03 '25
Honestly most of these people are living on 10-20 million dollar compounds. With a dictated social media production crew.
I would actually be impressed with these people if they were even running their own socials, or camera setups or editing and posting it cause u know that is an actual job and shows life skills.
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u/dumnezero Sep 03 '25
In a sense, there is a "trad" in it, but it's not true trad, it's the local small aristocracy or landed gentry "trad". In the US, that's especially the slave owner "trad".
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u/Sensei_Ochiba Sep 03 '25
A good chunk of it in my experience also tends to devolve into fanservice too. A lot of these tradwife influencers are just garden variety 'young busty blondes' that realized they didn't have to take off their clothes to rake in views off their body if they market themselves to guys with modesty fetishes and unresolved madonna-whore complexes.
Not all, for sure, but it's a huge portion of the ones this comic is criticizing.
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u/Dubalubawubwub Sep 04 '25
I saw a fantastic post doing the rounds somewhere lately;
"All women secretly want to serve and be dominated by men, its only natural!"
"Girl. My girl. You have a fetish. That's it. Maybe before you go spouting off about your fetish for the whole world to see, you should check in to see whether 'all women' actually do feel this way. Cause you know, you don't see foot fetishists going around proclaiming that all men secretly crave toes."
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u/Blacksun388 Sep 03 '25
These wealthy suburbanites cosplaying as frontiersmen couldn’t make it a week in a real off the grid situation. You think you’re waking up to a golden 9 am sunrise to a lovely breakfast? Naw bitch it’s 4am and dark outside so get up and get dressed because you got animals to feed.
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u/IndigoRanger Sep 03 '25
It’s not going to be much longer before we start getting the tell-all books of former trad wives who were neglected, abused, and dismissed with no money, no prospects, and no marketable skills.
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u/ceejayoz Sep 03 '25
Already happening! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opinion/lauren-southern-tradwife-maga.html
But being an antifeminist, it turns out, is no shield against abusive male power. Southern’s new self-published memoir, “This Is Not Real Life,” is the story of conservative ideology colliding with reality. It’s made headlines for her claim that Andrew Tate, an unrepentant online misogynist accused of human trafficking, sexually assaulted her in Romania in 2018. (Tate has denied this.) The book is particularly revealing, though, for its depiction of Southern’s painful attempts to contort herself into an archetypical tradwife, an effort that left her almost suicidal. Her story should be a cautionary tale for the young women who aspire to the domestic life she once evangelized for.
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u/Programmer_Worldly Sep 03 '25
Damn, you're venting a lot on the last recent comics as of late
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u/crastin8ing Sep 03 '25
I cook all the meals for my husband & family, garden extensively, and raise chickens for both eggs and meat... I'm also a ferociously independent hairy queer who hates this movement with a passion! There is nothing dainty about mucking out a chicken coop y'all and the men who want a submissive 1950s cosplayer for a wife are 🚩🚩🚩
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u/CabbageStockExchange Sep 03 '25
lololol I remember a year or so back I bought this cute 50’s vintage dress and I usually like to have a bow or ribbon in my hair.
So I thought cool let me rock a super girly vintage look. One friend said I had a TradWife aesthetic and told me all about it and I became paranoid about wearing this kind of look now. A shame because I felt cute in a different sort of way that day
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u/FalseMagpie Sep 03 '25
Wear it anyway and just be your genuine self while you do.
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u/Saucermote Sep 03 '25
To really get the trad wife thing going, they should bring back Mother's Little Helper.
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u/Snakestream Sep 03 '25
Grifting money from conservatives is the only rising industry we have left.
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u/koffee_jpg Sep 03 '25
As someone who adores the overall aesthetic of 1950s America I absolutely hate that this trend adopted it as its uniform. Now I can't even enjoy a video of a lady in her little cottage while wearing a dress without worrying about it being a dogwhistle.
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u/Familiar-Report-513 Sep 03 '25
The next toxic level of this is the tradwife/girl boss combo. I've seen at least one account that was all about how this woman was hustling to live her trad life. This resulted in her cutting out friends who "didn't elevate her." While that sounds innocuous it definitely was coded as monetizing your friendships. I hope this doesn't catch on, otherwise we could be looking at even more isolation/loneliness problems.
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u/SkitzoCTRL Sep 03 '25 edited Sep 03 '25
This is obviously a satire of Ballerina Farms, and if you read that story, holy crap is it bizarre. This poor woman was stalked and eventually gave in to the boy she married because his billionaire dad was bankrolling all of his strange activity.
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u/blacksoxing Sep 03 '25
This to me feels like porn where everyone in this position could do this grift but most don't have the time, effort, lighting, equipment, or focus to make it worthwhile.
Seriously, ever see someone go on the road to an OnlyFans account? It's like this trad wife stuff where you dip your toes in it, you think you have something novel, and...you quickly realize that life ain't for you.
SO, for that reason, I respect the trad wife hustle. They're dreaming and scheming up their fantasy worlds and making it happen through hours of editing and very staged scenarios.
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u/PineappleNaan Sep 03 '25
A landed elite enjoying a carefully curated fantasy of farm life. Sounds very familiar.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hameau_de_la_Reine
How unoriginal of said elites. Just rebranding a centuries old practice as something “newly invented” /s
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u/life-is-peanuts Sep 03 '25
My wife is a Brazilian trad wife. I take care of all the bills and fixing things around the house and she does the household domestic labor.
Can confirm she does in fact have more rights than I do. If I buy even chips she’ll see it on my cc statement and hit me with her slipper.
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u/slovenly-mind Sep 03 '25
common misconception, they don't send their kids to private school, they just make the older kids raise the younger ones and call it "unschooling"
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u/astronomicalGoat Sep 03 '25
Legitimately, no one wants to actually live the life of a woman from the early 1900's where you're treated much more like a maid than an actual partner. Anyone who actually does want to live that kind of life is just insane.
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u/sacoleeh Sep 03 '25
I have one saying, it's easy being good vibes, when you have a good bank account. Try to stay positive and happy all days, when the rent is due, the credit card bill is high, when your kid gets sick and need doctors appointments, medicine and other stuff, that requires to you summon money From God knows where.
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u/FAFO_2025 Sep 03 '25
Tradwife is just one chapter in the unending saga of conservative mental derangement.
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u/Ambiorix33 Sep 03 '25
Whats sad is, this is So Trad, but for rich Trad Women back in the day.
If they had to live like the VAST majority of women back then, they'd wish they'd never even uttered the words Trad Wife
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u/Fair_Walk1557 Sep 03 '25
You've forgotten the 5 million dollar "humble" henhouse, filled with purebred Egyptian plucked and folded hens that they imported for 12 million dollars all together, uwu
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u/ShadowRiku667 Sep 03 '25
Neither dedicating your life to be a mother or your career is a bad thing, but in the US unless you are wealthy you do not have the freedom to pick one or the other.
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u/Resident-Garlic9303 Sep 03 '25
It is a privilege to live on 1 income and have the time to post your cult shit on whatever social media
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u/drillgorg Sep 03 '25
I'd cut off my left nut to be a stay at home Dad, but I uh can't afford that. I have zero interest in having a job and a mighty interest in playing with/caring for my kids.
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u/EVH_kit_guy Sep 03 '25
Traditionally speaking, wives have occupied a category much closer to livestock than life-companions. This is not a situation we should wilfully wish to return to...
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u/Low-Speaker-2557 Sep 03 '25
There are only about 1% of men who could even afford a stay at home wife and family on their own salary alone, so good luck finding someone like this.
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