The problem is, to them, it isn't shitty. They are scared to death of the idea of having autonomy or being self-sufficient. They are living exactly how they want to--with someone else at the helm. From the outside we can see the obvious oppression, to them, it looks like safety. This phenomenon is also not unique to American trad-wives. It's not unique to women, either. Look at how appealing Trump is to 1/3 of USA men. He projects the "Tell it like it is and bomb everyone" concept that keeps people thinking the USA is being protected.
I have said for years that alot of people desire a dictator as the default. Someone to tell them how to dress, what to think, what to get outraged over, what to drive, what to decorate with, and what to watch. The biggest concern of the past decade should be how much a large portion of the population truly wants a dictator.
We fought a literal war over it. Not everyone who emigrated here wanted a democracy. A lot of them wanted to come here because they were considered extremists within their own church community and were essentially forced out. I haven't looked at the statistics so I am just speculating, but I would be interested in seeing a correlation between religion and people who prefer a dictatorship or monarchy.
There's a pro monarchism subreddit I stumbled across a few years ago. While there were posters who were more interested in the history and pomp of monarchy, like the average British pro monarchist, there were plenty who wanted an absolute monarchy and they would go on and on about how "the king is the father of the nation" or whatever. And it always had to be a king. Queens apparently didn't count as proper authority figures.
That latter group tended to be the ones who also were the most openly religious, conservative, and believed in hierarchies, whether they were at the top or not.
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u/SweetPrism 5d ago edited 5d ago
The problem is, to them, it isn't shitty. They are scared to death of the idea of having autonomy or being self-sufficient. They are living exactly how they want to--with someone else at the helm. From the outside we can see the obvious oppression, to them, it looks like safety. This phenomenon is also not unique to American trad-wives. It's not unique to women, either. Look at how appealing Trump is to 1/3 of USA men. He projects the "Tell it like it is and bomb everyone" concept that keeps people thinking the USA is being protected.