The trad-wife movement is aestheticized magical thinking, not real politics
Evidence
To professor Kelsey Kramer McGinnis, the trad-wife movement was less a serious political position than an aestheticized form of magical thinking and prosperity gospel: “If you live this lifestyle, if you do this thing that God is calling you to [do] as a woman, he will provide. And not only will he provide, he will provide beautifully. He will provide a beautiful family, a beautiful home, beautiful surroundings, a beautiful body.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 808
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- SEED: A ready-made angle for the counter-case essay: the trad-wife phenomenon as evidence the era may actually have a signature (aestheticized traditionalism) that Marx reads as mere reaction to blankness.