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, 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:
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<li>21:54 – Nara Smith's <a href='https://www.tiktok.com/@naraazizasmith/video/7536694003501223182'>homemade Cinnamon Toast Crunch TikTok</a></li>
<li>23:52 – Estee Williams <a href='https://www.tiktok.com/@esteecwilliams/video/7304331845598973226?lang=en'>prepares for her husband</a></li>
<li>29:59 – Alena Kate Pettit in a <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DUcZG6C3iY'>podcast interview about being a #TradWife</a></li>
<li>39:19 – Abby Shapiro on <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgkvsMuomM'>five lies the Left tells women from her YouTube channel, Classically Abby</a></li>
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SOURCES: 
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://youtu.be/YHqdh0KoIow?si=IdhGMSJ31BMvuMpy'>A Trad Wife Tragedy</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://www.indulgexpress.com/life-style/2025/Apr/29/why-the-resurgence-of-trad-wives-is-more-alarming-than-you-think'>Why the resurgence of trad wives is more alarming than you think</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://archive.is/blt3W#selection-307.0-307.34'>The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17/nx-s1-5206673/tradwives-have-taken-over-tiktok-now-ex-tradwives-want-their-moment'>Tradwife life isn't as good as it looks on TikTok — just ask former tradwives</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://www.thetimes.com/magazines/the-sunday-times-magazine/article/meet-the-queen-of-the-trad-wives-and-her-eight-children-plfr50cgk'>Meet the queen of the ‘trad wives’ (and her eight children)</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://unherd.com/2025/01/is-the-tradwife-just-a-kink/'>Is the Tradwife just a kink? Don't underestimate the happy housewife's power</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/florida-says-it-plans-to-end-all-vaccine-mandates.html'>Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://firebrandmag.com/articles/the-tradwife-movement-and-christian-womanhood'>The #tradwife Movement and Christian Womanhood</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/mormonism-tradwives-perfection/'>Opinion: How Mormonism Churns Out the Most Influential #TradWives</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://archive.is/rr9Pc#selection-399.0-399.28'>The Four Levels Of Manliness</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://archive.is/NNOAG#selection-607.0-607.31'>What it’s like to be a trad kid</a></li>
</ul>
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FOLLOW JOSH:
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<li>Website: <a href='https://joshboerman.com'>joshboerman.com</a></li>
<li>Bluesky: <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/bosh.worstpossible.world'>@bosh.worstpossible.world</a></li>
<li>Other podcast: <a href='https://www.worstpossible.world'>The Worst of All Possible Worlds</a></li>
<li>Stream: <a href='https://www.twitch.tv/traditional_scrench/'>Traditional Scrench</a></li>
</ul>
FOLLOW JUNE:
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<li>Bluesky: <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mf5dzzqkp7fnmby6blfeljwj'>@junlper.beer</a></li>
<li>Other podcast: <a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kill-the-computer/id1647062210'>Kill The Computer</a></li>
<li>Writing: <a href='https://junlper.substack.com'>June's Substack</a></li>
</ul>

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