Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
by Julia Ebner · 20 Feb 2020 · 309pp · 79,414 words
painful to watch in real time how Kim skilfully takes all her fears and insecurities, inserts them into the Red Pill formula and gets a Trad Wife out of it. I am not in the most mentally stable state myself. Having just come out of a painful break-up, I begin to
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on a lie. The lie that you can have everything, self-fulfillment and a happy family life. It just doesn’t work that way,’ one Trad Wife tells me. Blame it on the hook-up culture, as Brittany Pettibone would say, the product of modernity, social progress, feminism. Millennials are increasingly fed
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
the opposite sex, in practice it often had the reverse effect. Increasingly isolated from career-oriented women, many gravitated toward the idealized fantasy of the “trad wife”: “women who spend their days taking care of their homes and families and documenting their activities on social media.” Trad wives ranged from Orthodox Jewish
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cooking videos with soothing voice-overs. One widely parodied clip showed the couple making their own toothpaste from scratch. To professor Kelsey Kramer McGinnis, the trad-wife movement was less a serious political position than an aestheticized form of magical thinking and prosperity gospel: “If you live this lifestyle, if you do
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. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “halo-shaped wearables”: Haskins, “Fashy Posturing and Rich-Kid Juvenilia?” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT the “trad wife”: Sophie Elmhirst, “The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife,” New Yorker, March 29, 2024, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-rise-and-fall-of-the
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-trad-wife. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “live this lifestyle”: Carter Sherman, “Sundresses and Rugged Self-Sufficiency: ‘Tradwives’ Tout a Conservative American Past…That Didn’t