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"Trad Wives" are Worse Than THOTs
Malcolm and Simone discuss the unsustainable lifestyle promoted by "trad wives" on social media. They argue these women are actually trophy wives dependent on hidden male labor.
Simone: [00:00:00] they show all this video or photos of them making pies at home and living in a very cottage core way and like doing, hanging up laundry to air dry. And picking mushrooms and they're these women for the most part, like I get this, like. Really visceral reaction to these because the lives that these women are living our lives of complete leisure and luxury.
Simone: Like they think that what they're doing is becoming a trad wife when really what they're doing is becoming a trophy wife. And what they don't realize is that the men that they're marrying. Can't afford that a man who has a trophy wife really basically should be independently wealthy
Malcolm: every time you see one of these women who is indulging in this quote unquote trad lifestyle, also see a man. Who's off camera, who's secretly working to afford all of this and is sacrificing to afford all of this. And yet the woman is acting as if she is the one making the sacrifice, living in abundant leisure.
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Simone: Hello, Malcolm.
Malcolm: Hello, Simone. [00:01:00] This is one where I had sort of a concept for a video and she didn't want to talk too much about it beforehand because she's like, Oh, I want to be surprised.
Simone: Yeah, I'll ask dumb questions and see what you say. Well,
Malcolm: we were talking, you know, in reference to the Barbie movie that it's very clear that the women are not happy in the world that they have created.
Malcolm: In the world that feminism created for women, it appears that this new model doesn't work and women are living really systemically unhappy lives.
Malcolm: Based on how, how feminized they've made the world there's some great statistics on this as well that I might be able to put on state screen showing that generally the more a woman buys into feminism or the more that she lives in a feminist environment, the less happy she will be.
Malcolm: And they, over time, women's happiness has been going down as the number of well, as, as feminism has won more and more victories in our society
Simone: happiness, or maybe it's just mental health problems.
Simone: I think it's just rates of mental health problems, which of course is like primarily depression.
Simone: Like, but it's not just happiness. It's [00:02:00] like all sorts of bad things. So I think it's, it diminishes the problem. Oh yeah, no, it's
Malcolm: women's happiness. It's declining over time.
Simone: Yeah. But I think if you also look at rates of, of women's mental health that mental health liberals and conservatives, especially among
Malcolm: women. Yes, it is. It's really terrible. This world is uniquely bad for women more worse than it was when women had less rights. When I say less rights, I don't mean like 1950s. I'm talking like 1980s, right? And that is fascinating.
Simone: I don't, I don't, first off, I want to push back a little bit and say, I don't think this is about rights.
Simone: I think this is about, Like cultural expectations and quotas and things like that. Like, I think that it's very important that men and women are treated equally under the wall, but I'm sorry, under the law. But actually right now, of course, men are not treated equally under the law. Men are much more at risk, for example, in divorces with child custody, et cetera.
Simone: So I don't even think that it's, it's like equality. That
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