The unstoppable rise of Tradwives
Unpacking the influx of ultra-conservative content creators, tradwives and stay-at-home-girlfriends
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Unpacking the influx of ultra-conservative content creators, tradwives and stay-at-home-girlfriends
TikTok’s “For You” page recommendation algorithm propels users who interact with “tradwife” content — which promotes “traditional values” and rigid gender roles — down far-right conspiracy theory rabbit holes. Media Matters coded and analyzed 327 recommended videos after exclusively interacting with tradwife content and documented what happened. We found TikTok’s recommendation algorithm rapidly populated our FYP with conspiracy theory content and fearmongering, which made up nearly one-third of all videos served to the FYP.
I thought I'd left that oppressive world behind, but now I see the #tradwife trend on social media, and it's bringing everything back.
Sophie Elmhirst on the influencer Alena Kate Pettitt, an early leader of the controversial trad-wife movement—which promotes womens’ domesticity—on social media.
In a TikTok video, a mom named Jasmine Dinis is raising her daughter to become a "traditional wife" who "depends on a man."