Walking into a Charlie Kirk–endorsed “Leadership Summit” geared toward young women, I already knew it would leave me upset. However, after a seemingly never-ending weekend, I realized it was not the constant degradation of women or the villainization of feminism that disturbed me the most, as I had expected. What bothered me more was the […]
There are plenty of women who aspire to be a housewife, without actually understanding the eventual legal ramifications that could occur if this whole ‘trad-wife’ thing actually goes the way of the 1950’s.
Very few of these women actually understand that there are women still alive in the U.S. who could not legally have a bank account when they were in their 20’s. And those that do don’t actually believe that these Christian men would do that to them.
Mostly, they just don’t want to have to compete in the capitalist rat-race directly, just through their husbands. That being said, this is a world view that is being sold to them through aggressive and deliberate marketing practices, it is subjugation repackaged as empowerment.
There are plenty of women who aspire to be a housewife, without actually understanding the eventual legal ramifications that could occur if this whole ‘trad-wife’ thing actually goes the way of the 1950’s.
Very few of these women actually understand that there are women still alive in the U.S. who could not legally have a bank account when they were in their 20’s. And those that do don’t actually believe that these Christian men would do that to them.
Mostly, they just don’t want to have to compete in the capitalist rat-race directly, just through their husbands. That being said, this is a world view that is being sold to them through aggressive and deliberate marketing practices, it is subjugation repackaged as empowerment.