I think a big part of this is also: a lot of these Tradwives started that crap when they were YOUNG!

I went to a pretty conservative evangelical university from 2003-2007. A lot of the women I went to school with got married while still in school (at like 19 or 20 years old) and had a kind of tradwife outlook (before the term existed) and now many of them have rejected all of that. And the catalyst, in a lot of cases, was just growing up. Big difference was that they didn’t have social media quite like we have today, where your dumb twentysomething ideas and lifestyles are broadcast all over the world and come to define you for all time.

One example comes to mind: Joshua Harris and his book I Kissed Dating Goodbye. The thing was enormous in the evangelical world in the early 2000s and youth groups and young adult groups were getting it pushed at them. It was all about “courting” instead of dating and pressured people to get married if they wanted to have sex. A ton of my peers who bought into it had horrible marriages are now divorced, in many cases due to infidelity. Joshua Harris, almost a decade ago, himself got divorced and issued an apology for the damage he caused. But here’s the thing: he wrote the book when he was TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD! No one who can barely legally drink is going to be an authority on marriage.

I think we’re going to see a lot more Gen-Z MAGA types growing out of the movement. Especially women.