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The Dangerous Overlap Between Incel Culture and Trad Wife Politics - National Women's Law Center
When people hear the words “incels” and “trad wives,” they might think of very different images. While “incels” are thought of as lonely, radicalized, or dangerous, “trad wives” might invoke associations with being soft, natural, or motherly. But despite these differences in how they’re...
When people hear the words “incels” and “trad wives,” they might think of very different images. While “incels” are thought of as lonely, radicalized, or dangerous, “trad wives” might invoke associations with being soft, natural, or motherly.
But despite these differences in how they’re perceived culturally, these communities may not be quite as far apart as you might believe. And both pose a real danger to women’s rights and futures.
Trad wives represent an idealistic version of how conservatives believe that women should behave: online, you frequently see them staying home to raise children while their husband goes off to work. Their photos feature happy kids, homemade lavish meals, and a clean home and tidy garden. It’s an attractive picture on the surface, but behind the scenes pronatalists are seizing on the romantic appearance of the trad wife lifestyle for their political gain.
- Pronatalists want to control women’s fertility by arguing that women should be at home to take care of children and be discouraged from working. Leading pronatalists have even gone as far as to say that women should be shamed for having careers.
- Incels similarly seek to control women by depriving them of their rights. They believe that women cannot be trusted and therefore must be controlled by men. Some also say that the government should enforce monogamy and that women should be forced into sex and having children with their partner.
The pronatalist movement may be bathed in soft neutrals and the smell of homemade sourdough, but it poses just as much of a risk to women’s rights and autonomy as the culture inside misogynist incel forums.
The absolute state of modernity! Where past norms that were once beneficial for society are looked down upon as subversive, extremist talking points! 5 to 10 years ago, most radfeminist spaces would had simply dismissed a pronatalist as a typical, flippant sexist who was ignorant to the problematic aspects of "patriarchy". But nowadays, having a prominent influence behind propagation of trad wife ideology apparently makes you just as malicious as ER!





