This chapter examines the complexities surrounding the 'trad wife' identity, discussing the traits and societal expectations that define it. The speakers share personal experiences and insights, contrasting traditional lifestyles with contemporary roles through the lens of friendship and societal pressures. The conversation reveals the allure and challenges of the tradwife lifestyle, critiquing the implications for women's autonomy and career prospects in a modern context.
Trevor, Christiana, and noted writer and journalist Anne Helen Petersen discuss the growing #tradwife trend, the ideological conviction that a woman’s sole and highest purpose is to be her spouse’s modest, subservient helpmate, and that anything less is ungodly. Why do more women now seem to be taking on this mantle? Are cleaning, cooking, and total submission truly the path to godliness, or have we fallen so far off the societal cliff that women are simply exhausted?
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