Bad Book Club: The Tradwife Manifesto *TEASER*
Binchtopia
Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this installment of Bad Book Club, Julia and Eliza read the sacred word of Lori Alexander, aka The Transformed Wife, who walked so all trad wife influencers could run. The girlies unpack Lori's memoir, in which she preaches biblical womanhood and reveals the brain tumor that made her submit to her husband. Plus, helpful life lessons like always say yes to sex, reuse your children's bathwater, and never have shit to say to anyone. Digressions include Lana's recent Sylvia Plath tribute, Eliza's long-awaited return to the plant of unfathomable joy, and the three types of divinely ordained men (allegedly).
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| 0:00.0 | There's another important thing that that's along the road of her becoming a godly wife, |
| 0:03.2 | which is that she has a brain tumor that comes back. |
| 0:05.4 | Of course. |
| 0:05.8 | And it is inoperable. |
| 0:07.1 | It is in her pituitary gland and she can't get it fixed. But she can become a godly wife. These things clearly have nothing to do with each other, the brain tumor and becoming a godly wife all of a sudden. Well, the other thing that she says is she's like, well, it was really hard to work because, like, I then had to, like, go home and, like, also take care of the kids. And it's just, like, doing all of that is a lot. And it's like, yeah, it is a lot. It is a lot to do that when your husband doesn't pick up the other end of the stick there. Yeah. Like, I understand. Yeah, exactly. She's like, yeah, I would like to take one thing off my plate. Yeah, that makes sense to me. Yeah. Doesn't mean women should never be allowed to have bank accounts. Well, she doesn't believe in that. And the other thing that she does, too, is she does a lot of like posting things from her own blog. I'm like, you're really letting a lot of other people's work, like do the talking for you here. But she is going to teach us all that |
| 0:54.7 | she's learned from her experience. And what she first starts out with is telling us why she |
| 0:59.1 | mentors women, which starts out with the definition of mentor from the Merriam-Webster dictionary. |
| 1:03.0 | She's a great way to start it out. And she basically mentors women because we live in a dark |
| 1:07.7 | and twisted and sick world. And she wants us to know that there is hope |
| 1:11.8 | and there are options for us to make our marriages better. Well, yeah. And she talks about, too, how a lot of |
| 1:16.8 | women engage in some sort of birth control. She thinks women aren't having children because they don't |
| 1:21.3 | want to overpopulate the earth or because they are afraid of not being able to give every single |
| 1:26.2 | one of their kids a new car. |
| 1:27.8 | Right. |
| 1:46.5 | And I'm like, no, people stop having children because it becomes almost impossible to care for a lot of children on the salary that most people are making. Right. In a way. But that's not an excuse for Lori. Of course not. That's not an excuse. Well, although if your husband doesn't want kids, you have to make peace with that and go with his guidance. Exactly. But there's a lot of, she's basically like, why would you want a career? |
| 1:46.5 | Feminists have made you would you want a career? |
| 2:00.6 | Feminists have made you think you want a career. But there's so many things you can do as a help meet, which is basically helping your family with everything that they need and being a fruitful member of the household. and then using your gifts and talents to help further your husband's career, whether that means proofreading |
| 2:01.1 | speeches, entertaining colleagues, or giving wise perspective when asked about problems at the office. |
| 2:07.4 | To say a woman needs a paid career to use her gifts, talents, and brain is such a narrow-minded |
| 2:11.6 | view of the matter. Well, and it's interesting because this whole section starts out with |
| 2:15.3 | feminist one, Sorry, feminist |
| 2:18.0 | won. We won? In what? When and how did feminist win? Feminist won because they were able to |
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