Ok so recently I’ve been looking at (strangely for the first time) blogs about traditional femininity - typically Christian women who embrace ‘traditional gender roles’ like crafting, cooking, cleaning and dressing up nicely for their husbands etc. Very few that I’ve seen espouse anything maliciously anti feminist and I have a lot of empathy for it all - wanting to escape to a pastel cottage with a loving spouse and a family and never having to work in an office is an understandable dream and I get it. But the bleakest fucking thing, the bleakest part of that whole scene, is that they think that by being kind and ladylike and subservient they will genuinely attract a Traditional Man with similar values who will cherish and love and protect them.
But take a guess what I also found in this community! All of the ‘traditional gender roles’ blogs run by men, that these women happily interact with and consider to be a part of their movement, are porn. They’re not photos of old books and rose gardens and fresh pies like these women’s blogs are, they’re photos of women bound and bent over and serving their husbands naked in aprons and heels. And they’ll like or share a photo of a rainbow haired 21st Century punk girl in bondage gear just as soon as a photo of a blonde homemaker [on her knees] - they don’t give a single fuck about ‘tradition’ or family values, they are literally just every day run of the mill misogynists who have realised that they’re more likely to be given a living doll to abuse if they call themselves traditional.
Obviously I don’t agree with the traditional femininity thing but above anything else I am so, so heartbroken for these women. Please know that men who openly talk about their love of upholding male dominance do not care how lovely and sweet you are, they hate us all just the same.
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