
Music 101 in its third season, featuring Mr.G.Mick Smith as my Co-host.
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The viral tradwife aesthetic—a curated fantasy of apron-clad domestic bliss, sourdough starters, and soft-spoken submission—masquerades as a return to biblical womanhood but operates as a digital-age performance. Far from inheriting their grandmothers' often economically necessary or community-rooted roles, these influencers weaponize nostalgia for clout, transforming piety into content. Their pastoral tableaus (funded by sponsorships and algorithm-friendly pastels) cosplay a selective, whitewashed version of "tradition," erasing the labor struggles, limited choices, and diverse realities of historical homemakers. Beneath the lace-trimmed veneer lies a dangerous trade-off: romanticizing female subservience as empowerment obscures the movement’s alignment with patriarchal authoritarianism, alienates women navigating actual faith-based choices, and commodifies a rose-tinted theology that costs followers their critical voice—all while monetizing submission as spectator sport.
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