fatte catte of jort dort hortMar 13
myrmepropagandist

Ladies please do not let some woman with a media empire, conservative influencer career and/or government appointments and **no kids** tell you that *you* need to be married, have lots of kids and not bother your silly little head with college.

This has been happening multiple times.

Please don't fall for it.

Also ignore if she has a nanny.

Mar 13 at 1:11pmWeb
Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 13

If you want to sell that trad wife life to young girls you had better be living it. AT LEAST.

I would like to suggest the idea of deciding if you want kids with the other person who would be their parent (and maybe some fully reject-able advice from extended family who might be excited about that.) Consider your health, and your time. You have no "duty" to have kids (or get married or both)-- but, many of us will be very happy for you and help if you do.

That's my "influence"

Show threadAoife GreenhamMar 13
@futurebird like the free birth influencer convincing women to give birth with *no medical assistance at all*, while herself never having had a free birth  
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

The Guardian
Show threadEphMar 13
@AoifeGreenhamIllustrations @futurebird iirc, she did then have a free birth and it ended in tragedy for the child (and presumably also medical trauma for her), but she went on to continue recording the next season of her freebirthing podcast anyway
Show threadDavidMar 13

@futurebird Trad wives came up in conversation with my (late teens) kids. Without getting into my opinions on "trad wife" and all it implies and assumes, I explained that the folks who want trad wives to exist should also rally for at least:

- trad taxes (higher taxes on the rich and corps),
- trad wages (at least minimum wage in line with inflation, but realistically more than that),
- trad healthcare (actually affordable but I'd also argue for universal), and
- trad housing (affordable, and likely near your family or some other support structure)

For a person to stay at home, cooking, cleaning, and raising a few kids, then you need help from society to make that happen. Selling young folks on a trad setup with our current setup is just going to lead to more resentment and anger when they can't make it work.

So, tax the rich and companies, pay people more, and take care of them. If you want trad wives without the rest then I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you're just in it for the misogyny. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Show threadclewMar 13

I sometimes get somewhere with people nostalgic for "the 1950s" by sighing over the 90% top tax rate. "That's how they did it!" I say cheerfully.

Only really works if they haven't clocked me as a lefty type first.

@leathekd @futurebird

Show threadDoreen32128 ready to rumble!Mar 13
@futurebird We sure have been sold quite the BS bill of goods! Haven’t we???
Show threadCitoyen européen Ray Hindle ✔️Mar 14
@futurebird In other words ""It's your decision, as it should be!"
Show threadofficerripleyMar 13
@futurebird Yep, Phyllis Schlafly all over again.
Show threadSome Kind Of GarfMar 13
@officerripley @futurebird Oh fuck there's several Schlaflys like that?
Show threadofficerripleyMar 13

@somekindofgarf @futurebird

Afraid so; water-carriers for the patriarchy.

Show threadJack the Waterlogged CountMar 13

@futurebird BeverlyLaHaye pioneered that life when Carter was running against Ford. (and it was fairly popular among a certain class between 1919 and 1929)

[edited because her name is Beverly, not Barbara. my apologies to one of the worst grifters ever to scam]

Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 13

@count_01

If a philosophy of life would sound worse coming out of the mouth of a man than a woman... maybe it's still terrible either way? Right?

Show threadJack the Waterlogged CountMar 13
@futurebird The LaHayes made millions testing that theory, and I tend to agree, it sounded better coming from her mouth, but she didn't seem to.
Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 13

@count_01

We can't assume that everyone already knows about this grift. I think when we do that's why it keeps coming back, like a zombie.

Show threadKim Possible Mar 13
@futurebird @count_01 It's like the faux Tradwife trend, no? I hate it.
Show threadepicdemiologistMar 13
@count_01 @futurebird Also Phyllis Schlafly; woman (who is an attorney and self-published author) goes on nationwide speaking tour to tell all the other women to stay home and make babies.
Show threadclewMar 13

afaik the only person my mother ever hissed to her face

she said she wasn't planning to, the rhetoric was just so dreadful

and... my mother! mother of two! who would often have liked not to also need a paying job! couldn't buy the Schlafly shit!

@epicdemiologist @count_01 @futurebird

Show threada worm among dovesMar 13
@futurebird @count_01 good lord some of the girlboss nonsense that i see on my feed on every social medium i'm on

this is so controversial and so brave 😭
Show threadRobin BartonMar 13
@futurebird one rule for you and another for the Epstein-billionaire class
Show threadtasketMar 13
@futurebird Surprise... not making babies, but berating the ladies...
Show threadJackMexMar 13

@futurebird

And if it is a woman with kids and a husband who says it, ignore her too.

Show threadMartijn FaassenMar 13

@futurebird Even if they do have 14 kids, supposedly, don't fall for it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/tradwife-account-patriarchy-hannah-apologizes-lies-says-was-not-presen-rcna192664

Tradwife account ‘Patriarchy Hannah’ apologizes for lies, says she was ‘not who I presented myself to be’

The person behind a popular “tradwife” social media account apologized Monday for misleading followers into thinking the account owner was an ultraconservative married mother of 14.

NBC News
Show threadCarolynMar 13
@futurebird Even if she has kids.
Show threadVenitaMar 13
@futurebird Good advice. Understand the messenger's underlying agenda. It's probably not about you.
Show threadRehana RodriguesMar 13
@futurebird It's baffling that this needs to be said.
Show threadsparrows (doll arc) :flaglesbian::neoamazonia::vriskasip:Mar 13
@futurebird dont let anyone else tell you that either for that matter
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKMar 13
@futurebird the only one seems to have some sense (she doesn't even claim to be a "tradwife" and was around blogging long before this phenomenon existed) is the Catholic lady who advocated NFP - unsurprisingly she's a mum of 10 and I only read her blog for the food posts (simply because I was intrigued at the logistics involved of feeding that many people)
Show threadLionelBMar 13

@futurebird

Or several nannies.

Show threadscrottie (he/him/them)Mar 13
@futurebird my feed rn:
Show threadkie/qui (planar) 🦽🛹 HLZMar 13
@futurebird this is the cycle of indoctrination
Show threadIvey Janette McClellandMar 13
@futurebird AKA the Duggars and all those "Christian families" with 20 kids. And the women banned from driving,getting an education and being forced to submit to their husbands.