As a testimony to my social cluelessness, I just learned of the #TradWife hashtag and its corresponding online movement. Here's an interesting video on the subject, produced by none other than the BBC, which I would not have expected to produce anything in support of it, although they couldn't refrain from giving it a negative title:
· #TradWife: ‘Submitting to my husband like it's 1959' - BBC News
· or directly on YouTube: ‘Submitting to my husband like it's 1959': Why I became a TradWife ¦ BBC Stories
Here's another video with a positive slant, amazingly also on mainstream media:
· 'Tradwife' Mom of 2 Says She Loves Being Home With Her Kids | Inside Edition
And yet another:
· Why Are Feminists TRIGGERED By Stay-At-Home Wives?
People in traditional marriages (I consider myself one) have all sorts of different arrangements, so I find it strange that some, even within the movement, regard a traditional marriage as requiring "submission", or believing that the husband must completely control the finances to the point where the wife gets an "allowance", as the woman in the BBC video above alludes to.
The corporate world, depending as it does on women both as employees and as consumers of things that working women need, is vitriolic over this. Women who stay at home with their kids are now vilified in almost every article on the subject as:
"alt-right",
neo-Nazis,
white supremacists,
personally suicidal (due to the wife's financial dependence on the husband),
culturally suicidal (due to such women rolling back decades of feminist "progress").
I sampled quite a few articles and found it almost impossible to find one without references to such things. My how things have changed since I was a kid, "Leave It To Beaver" was on TV, and the show looked a lot like my family.
Either scenario can be oppressive or liberating depending on the circumstance, such as if someone has no choice.