Deja Vu Tradwives: Here We Go Again

The tradwives of 1975’s The Stepford Wives. That’s Ginger Grant (Tina Louise) from Gilligan’s Island over Katherine Ross’s right shoulder, and Mason Reese’s face (remember him?) on the shopping cart. And oh yes, the gloves! A throwback to the fashion of the Sixties. I never went to church without my gloves! And my mother had a ton of those Church Hats. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 photo by James Vaughan on Flickr

What no one tells you when you’re young—because even your parents aren’t really old enough to understand this themselves—is that what doesn’t work and hasn’t several times over just doesn’t friggin’ work. Capiche?

Feminism attempted to correct the problems with traditional housewifery and it went too far; the new Tradwife movement attempts to the same with feminism and also misses the mark. Both have some good to offer modern women, but both remake the same mistakes.