So I saw your tradwife post. Aside from that idealized inaccurate fashion thing they got going on, do you think the people pushing this ideology also have very wrong ideas of what wives in Ye Olde Days do
Like the whole one income used to be enough thing, because in my experience it's not true? We have stories of Grandma's neighbor who cleaned houses or sold cakes at the market to help bring in extra money.
Oh absolutely 100%. Hell, their households don't even really have one income, because they're making videos aren't they? Those videos usually have ad revenue or something
The whole idea of women who do absolutely nothing outside the home being a universal historical constant is not remotely true, as you've pointed out and many other sources from history could attest. But also, even within the home, not every single household before the present was a situation where the man handled absolutely everything besides cooking and cleaning. In many cultures, it was traditional for a long time for women to handle the family finances as well. The husband might have been the one making the money, and he might have had the final say if there was a debate on things (in the ideal version of their culture) but for quite a lot of people, it was the wife's job to keep accounts and dole out the money for things the household needed
(plus, birth control! I know at least in the 19th century, birth control was marketed exclusively to married couples – other people absolutely used it if they could get a hold of it, but even married women weren't just smiling and having 10 kids every single time because "that's what God gave us." Some did, and birth control was certainly less reliable back then, but it existed and marry people were the primary target market)
It's all just a big sugary lie that oversimplifies history at best and completely ignores it at worst
