Happy housewife? Joy unmasks 'trad wife' image of Republican U.S. Senator Katie Britt

Katie Britt’s mocked GOP rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union address is apparently part of leading conservatives’ “trad wives” — short for traditional housewives — plan to send women back to the kitchen, Joy Reid explains.


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[lifecloud]

The Little Rock Nine are by far the bravest people I've ever seen. I'm always blown away by these photos. I know given the same situation, that I wouldn't have the courage to face this type of experience. I can only admire them from this vantage point so many years later.

[civilizeddiva]

Lawyer and Senator, but wants to convince women of their role in the home kitchen…
There is always a sell-out😖

[jackieknits]

In the 50s, my grandmother raised 3 kids and worked as a janitor at the local public school. My great-grandmother worked as domestic maid while raising 5 kids. Women have always worked. They only recently had the rights to match their male family. They only now have the opportunity to further their formal education and to be full citizens with all the rights of their sons, fathers, and husband's. OH yeah. Except for body autonomy. We just lost that.

[earthjustice]

Thank you Joy for bringing up Phyllis Schaffly - an extremely conservative Catholic activist who was very active in the anti-abortion movement as well as the anti-equal rights amendment movement.

[naomihatfield]

My mother bought into the whole "trad wife" message, raising two children and doting on her husband as a Stay At Home Mom. When my sister and I left home, she lasted four whole years before the crushing depression made her take her own life. My father, himself a firm believer in the "trad wife", has since remarried four times, in search of his perfect housekeep/chef/bedwarmer, because he is wholly incapable of feeding himself, washing his own clothes, being an adult. He's 82.

The "trad wife" is simply an institutional method of keeping women powerless and men immature. It is unnatural and needs to go away forever. The Rolling Stones song, "Mother's Little Helper" was about Valium, which 50's and 60's era housewives took to counter the despair of living the "trad wife" life.

[debvoz]

Self-proclaimed Conservatives desire to "return" to a time that never actually existed. The only women who were treated as "delicate flowers" who were too fragile to work were rich women. Poor and middle class women have always worked, on farms, in factories, as domestics, in every era of history women have worked outside the home, and then were expected to take care of the home and family, and have a baby every year until they died. Sojourner Truth talked about being hitched to a plow and asked "Ain't I a woman?" The so-called "Trad wife" is also a fictionalized rich Victornian noblewoman. They never really existed except in very specific socioeconomic levels.

[seer]

" I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It's just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade." - Morticia Addams

[minetree]

This is so important!!! I watched all of these beloved shows as a child, completely oblivious. Thank you for the history lesson, Joy!! (sending clip to everyone I know)

[iamjackscompletelackofsurp]

Katie mocked joe for not pushing a shopping cart around for a while. Yet shes a millionaire. I highly doubt she pushes one around either

[juggaloprofessorknowbodyim]

3:54 hey Joy, don't forget the pills! All those pills for the women, real women, who were sold an image they couldn't live up to. I belive it was called back then "mommy's little helper".

[reneem]

The Little Rock Nine & Ruby Bridges were braver than they ever knew & had no idea they’d be an important part of American history.
It’s a shame that people don’t want their stories told, because certain snowflakes may feel uncomfortable. I didn’t feel uncomfortable learning about these stories. It’s the fragile snowflake parents that don’t want their spawn to rethink inequality.
Katie Britt fed into the stereotype, but like most maga cultists, isn’t living up to what they are trying to promote. If she thinks she’s June Clever, why isn’t she a stay at home mom?!? Why is she in the senate?!?

[THATBOISHAD]

The point is choice. There is nothing wrong with a woman choosing to be a housewife if that's her choice. There is nothing wrong with a woman wanting to be independent or codependent with her husband. But what the GOP wants is a Mad Men style society.

[arenee]

My mother studied to be a nurse, but ended up a "trad wife". She had seven children, was denied a tubal ligation, was left dying from toxemia until the death fetus was birthed. She canned, cleaned, cooked, and did all other things a wife was required to do. She was the saddest person I ever knew. She wanted to be a nurse and ended up unfulfilled as a housewife. Maybe there are some women who enjoy that kind of life. My mother wasn't one of them. What a woman chooses to do should solely be up to her and her alone. No one has the right to tell another human being (which women are) what to do with their life.

[coomtothebroom]

Katie Britt went from unknown to universally laughed at. To use her own words *uses creepy voice* we see you. 👁️👄👁️

[GoGoWhoa]

Im a 64 yr old male and i saw the crap my grandmother and mother had to go through. I stand with women and womens right as their ally. Vote blue 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙💙

[dwp]

In 1977 a friend of mine, a woman, a pharmacist, went to buy a car. The salesman told her to come back with her husband or her father. He would not sell her a car. She was making good money.
Everyone needs to understand what it was like in the not to distant past, so we don't go back.

[hank_]

my mom was still using the phrase the "MRS degree" when I was first going to college in the early 2000s. She used it the other day and it was startling to both of us, especially given my mom has since worked to get 3 degrees under her belt and all w/in the sciences. When folks shrug off marketing, I don't think they full understand the cultural impact just a handful of marketing execs can have. Not only immediately but for decades to come. REIN IN MARKETING IN THE US!

[marilynh.]

I always had a problem with June cleaning her house, washing dishes vacuuming, etc, all in heels and a dress without a hair out of place.
That just doesn't happen in real life with real women.

[jeanthehumanbean]

If they want trad wives at home, they need to raise minimum wage above $7.25 an hour 👍

[NancyLauten]

Bravo! This is NOT discussed enough either!! Keep up the great work!!