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Like everyone else lately, I'm scrambling to figure out what a tradwife is thanks to Vance. I remember this now. It has a new name, but it's the same old oppressed fundie wife we've seen so many times before: a victim of Biblical gender roles and the rejection of the Proverbs 31 woman who buys her own vineyards, works outside the home and employs servants. I wrote a book on these pathetic fembots once, but no one liked what I had to say. I have some thoughts...

• tradwives and housewives are not the same thing
• housewives are not infantilized women
• housewives certainly don't speak in a phony, breathy baby voice
• housewives don't submit to their husbands
• housewives don't waste time making everything from scratch
• housewives just live their lives without trying to indoctrinate other women
• housewives don't teach their daughters it's sinful to go to college
• housewives don't teach their daughters to depend solely on a man
• housewives aren't opposed to working outside the home
• housewives aren't opposed to female independence and bodily autonomy
• housewives are allowed to have male friends
• housewives are allowed to keep the money they earn
• housewives have their own bank accounts
• tradwives do have the right to choose their lifestyle
• tradwives should not have the right to impose their lifestyle on their daughters
• their daughters have the right to choose their own lifestyle
• they cannot choose wisely if they haven't experienced any other way of life
• fundies aren't actually Christians since they reject the egalitarianism of Christ