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Posted on 03/27/2026 10:34:00 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Modern women are at a crossroads. There seems to be an irreconcilable difference between a career-driven woman…and the opportunity to approach womanhood and traditional goals as a life of their own.
But when you look into these two paths online, they are actually far more similar…
Infatuated by the haze of traditional influencers like Nara Smith, Erika Kirk and Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman, those replicating these lifestyles have fully lost the actual degree of agency and success these “trad-wives” have achieved.
Look no further than Erika Kirk, who is the current Chief Executive Officer of Turning Point USA…She has a clothing brand, Proclaim365, two kids and a social media following that watches for every political move she makes. She has a podcast and her own nonprofit, Everyday Heroes Like Us.
The social influence and independent woman that Erika Kirk is did not manifest only after her husband, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated. This was her life before, during and after her marriage. The former Miss Arizona…continued self-starter successes and earned her Juris Doctorate from Liberty University.
Smith has a net worth of $6 million, amassed from a vigorous influencer and modeling career, $5 million more than her husband-counterpart that she submits to on social media…
Smith’s followers, itching to practice what she preaches, neglect to understand that her situation is nowhere near traditional…
These women are not subjected to an economic whim of not having their own income… They can go and claim their traditional womanhood and turn it off at an instant to enjoy the liberties of their entrepreneurship.
If we can develop a more nuanced look at traditional life in the modern day, we can set women up for the expectations that this lifestyle realistically demands…
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Pursue God foremost, and the rest will follow…That should be the takeaway.
I do not expect widespread change within the female population anytime soon. Young women in their 20s are increasingly Liberal, anti-Trump, and mentally ill. Not all, of course, but the percentage of bad apples is too high. Young men are increasingly walking away.
I think Gen Z will not reproduce much. I expect a significant birth dearth. Twenty years from now, or so, we will not have many young people. And where will AI be in 20 years? How automated will our economy be?
I think that a very large percentage of our population will have nothing to contribute to the national economy. If our society wants to make any effort to go back to “single income” life where someone stays home to take care of the family and household, then this future era will be the time to make that happen. The Children of Gen Z may even replicate something like the 1950s — June Cleavers living at home, having lots of babies. The pendulum can swing that way, if people give it a push.
“Influence/Influencer”, I cannot think of any real traditional woman, or man for that matter that seek status or validation online.
I disagree.
Things don’t have to be one way or the other. Someone can try something new, it something in between.
If the thought of tradition isn’t your cup of tea, you didn’t have to do it. Even if you cherry pick from traditions or cultures that’s your prerogative.
The fear of hard work for low pay drives a lot of this. That seems to be tradition that people aren’t particularly tempted to do.
Let me summarize. “I hate that b**ch Erika Kirk! I hate her!
I hate her! I hate her!”
*** The Children of Gen Z may even replicate something like the 1950s — June Cleavers living at home, having lots of babies. ***
Didn’t June Cleavers only have Wally and Beaver? That’s not exactly lots of babies. I don’t really recall many trad wives on TV having lots of kids.
I can only think of the Partridge family where there were lots of kids (from the mom), and that certainly wasn’t a traditional family. Brady Bunch was a blended family, with 3 kids from each parent.
That's because you lack a vision of value, what it takes to deliver, and how to monetize it. Not all productive work is in manufacturing and agriculture. Managing fuels around cities, improving soils, and sustaining food resources for wildlife has value. Keeping all that going is very difficult work. How to improve living and working conditions performing it is a serious technical challenge. The biology alone is largely unknown and demands extensive research and development.
Lol. No one has a life on their own. Even mountain men had to trade to survive.
Do you understand how unhinged you sound?
Let me summarize you...”Any criticism against people who I deem to be on my side is so incredibly painful to me, it is as if I am hearing swear words and hate filled attacks. I have no ability to rationally hear different perspectives and counter options I disagree with.”
They used to live about 2 miles from my home in Scottsdale.
Very upscale location with very normal people living there.
There was make room for Daddy
And Father Knows Best
Which had larger families
The Waltons?
There was make room for Daddy
And Father Knows Best
Which had larger families
“improving soils”
BS. Common sense and get out of farmers’/ranchers’ way takes care of the soil. The two most adamant care takers of soil and the land in general are farmers and ranchers. They are more eco-friendly than any city dweeb that read a blog post, their livelihood depends on it.
Building big concrete and glass cities and sprawling urban housing over once prime ranch/farm land hurts the land more than any other factor (also immense solar and wind farms to a degree). All the good land is eaten up by the corporations and losers that want to build their little cookie-cutter houses and condo next to all the bars they like to drink at and bet on and watch sports...
The author is an idiot if she assumes that traditional housewives throughout history and in modern times didn’t have some sort of cottage industry to make pin money or some income to supplement the family income or provide luxuries for herself or the children.
I suppose if you are married to a very wealthy man, then you might just stick to charity work and brunches but those of us in the middle class find a way to turn our hobbies into a bit of cash.
I did craft fairs and sold children’s books at mommy parties. Avon, Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, baked goods, eggs or whatever thing you’re good at.
Some women turn it into real businesses as their kids age out of the home.
BS, and I have quantitative spatial chemical assays to prove it. I live on an abandoned orchard. This steep ground was terraced. The trace minerals that were here via atmospheric deposition and sequestration via anthropogenic charcoal residues are totally gone.
Further, I have relatives in Illinois who farm corn for alcohol. That soil is so cracked, hard, and dead that without ammonia the growth is a third the height and yellow.
Having a man support you so you don’t have to work is every Gen-Z woman’s dream.
‘Let me summarize. “I hate that b**ch Erika Kirk! I hate her!
I hate her! I hate her!”
Well I read through this slog and came up with the same summary
I’m not even a fan of Erika Kirk. I have nothing against her either
Aside from that, trad wife has to take on a different template. Trad means what? If it means being there for the kids when they’re little -i suggest until the youngest is in elementary school- then a career doing what one wants is all the more reasonable. Get to college, get credentials, get experience so when you go back in you have skills and know how/job theory.
Marry a provider. I repeat- marry a provider.
Get reasonable real estate - decent schools, manageable mortgage. Rent until interest rates come down
The sooner anyone owns real estate the sooner freedom is at hand.
Work if you want. Be able to not work if the kids get sick, have a debilitating injury, start becoming needy, doing drugs, hanging out with bad friends. Be ready to yank them out of any bad school environment
That takes money and resources.
Gone are the days when Rob Petrie can take time off, Laura runs the house and neighborhood with her friends and a house in New Rochelle is $20,000.00 and the state didn’t know to charge taxes on that house you already own
Subtle difference from the past —
Old days — I’ll support you if you support me! Let’s build a family! We will love each other forever. I will raise children. I will cook meals. I will keep a clean house. You will have peace and tranquility when you come home from work! All you have to do is pay the bills!
Today — You need to support me. I don’t want kids. I don’t cook. Why don’t we order door dash? Unless you’re a broke-ass loser who can’t afford to buy me dinner. No, I didn’t clean up your mess. I’m not your mother. Give me $500 — I’m getting my nails done tomorrow. And by the way, I found someone better, so I’m divorcing you and taking half your stuff.
I had a different take.
I think poster Nitzy was being sarcastic, and saying what the actual motivation of the article’s writer is based on.
Jealousy and class envy. Not a whole lot more.
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