Within the last few years, women portraying themselves online with a “trad wife” aesthetic have skyrocketed in popularity. This new trend embraces long dresses, traditional gender roles, cooking homemade meals, and raising massive families. Josh and June take a look into what the Trad Wife life experience is all about, what’s so appealing about it to some women, and the aspects that make it more than just a harmless apolitical lifestyle.

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EPISODE ART: Abby Shapiro Roth, a "traditional lifestyle" content creator who formerly published videos on YouTube as Classically Abby and now writes a newsletter called The First-Gen SAHM. She's also Ben Shapiro's sister.

AUDIO CLIPS:

21:54 – Nara Smith's homemade Cinnamon Toast Crunch TikTok
23:52 – Estee Williams prepares for her husband
29:59 – Alena Kate Pettit in a podcast interview about being a #TradWife
39:19 – Abby Shapiro on five lies the Left tells women from her YouTube channel, Classically Abby

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Website: joshboerman.com
Bluesky: @bosh.worstpossible.world
Other podcast: The Worst of All Possible Worlds
Stream: Traditional Scrench

FOLLOW JUNE:

Bluesky: @junlper.beer
Other podcast: Kill The Computer
Writing: June's Substack

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