Within the last few years, women portraying themselves online with a “trad wife” aesthetic have skyrocketed in popularity. This new trend embraces long dresses, traditional gender roles, cooking homemade meals, and raising massive families. Josh and June take a look into what the Trad Wife life experience is all about, what’s so appealing about it to some women, and the aspects that make it more than just a harmless apolitical lifestyle.

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EPISODE ART: Abby Shapiro Roth, a "traditional lifestyle" content creator who formerly published videos on YouTube as Classically Abby and now writes a newsletter called The First-Gen SAHM. She's also Ben Shapiro's sister.

AUDIO CLIPS:

• 21:54 – Nara Smith's homemade Cinnamon Toast Crunch TikTok
• 23:52 – Estee Williams prepares for her husband
• 29:59 – Alena Kate Pettit in a podcast interview about being a #TradWife
• 39:19 – Abby Shapiro on five lies the Left tells women from her YouTube channel, Classically Abby

SOURCES: 

• A Trad Wife Tragedy
• Why the resurgence of trad wives is more alarming than you think
• The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife
• Tradwife life isn't as good as it looks on TikTok — just ask former tradwives
• Meet the queen of the ‘trad wives’ (and her eight children)
• Is the Tradwife just a kink? Don't underestimate the happy housewife's power
• Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
• The #tradwife Movement and Christian Womanhood
• Opinion: How Mormonism Churns Out the Most Influential #TradWives
• The Four Levels Of Manliness
• What it’s like to be a trad kid

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