Though so-called progressives can’t even define what
a woman is, they have no qualms about telling them how they should act
and what they must believe.
Which is why they express such disdain at the
nascent "tradwife" trend, in which some young women have chosen to embrace
traditional gender roles and to consider monogamy, motherhood, and homemaking
as personally enriching-- and civilization-stabilizing—concepts and behaviors.
The idea of traditional wives (or traditional
anything) is anathema to leftists, who consider traditional gender roles as
naught but backward constrictions of a blessedly bygone era.
“Mainstream” media outlets such
as NBC's "Today” show, the Guardian, CNN, and, more recently Vice-- among
others-- have dutifully denounced this pursuit of stronger families and sexual
complementarity. Vice went so far as to state that the tradwife trend "has
sinister connections with right-wing extremism.” And added that the movement
shows signs of having been “co-opted by those with more nefarious aims.”
Nefarious? Yes, it is wicked when a woman acts in a feminine manner, criminal
if she cooks or cleans.
CNN’s culture writer Harmeet Kaur opined that the young
women who have chosen this lifestyle “sneer at what they consider to be
modern-day feminism, with its girl-bosses and its ungratifying grind, and wax
lyrical about the value of traditional gender roles…sometimes evoking
fundamentalist Christian principles in their beliefs.”
Sometimes evoking fundamentalist Christian
principles? Egads!
What would these women know about anything,
anyway? (Or, for that matter, the vast majority of those who have ever lived--
across the globe.)
Well, some say that traditional gender roles feel
comforting and empowering, particularly in a modern world that feels
completely out of control and increasingly dangerous. (I wonder if the rush
away from traditional notions of gender in recent decades has anything to do
with why the world feels increasingly out of control and dangerous?)
It never fails to astound me that leftists believe
that every woman should have the right to choose to kill the baby in her
womb—or even to “become” a man—but that they should not have the right to own a
gun, vote Republican, or embrace traditional gender roles.
“My body my choice.” Choice
is good, right? Just not that one, apparently.
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