The Sleepover Club: The Return Of The Trad Wife
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today, we are seeing more and more discourse about the rise of the trad (traditional) wife, with the gorls on Tiktok and Instagram romanticising having a family, being a wife, sundresses and staying at home. Very Lana del Rey 2012 vibes. In 1963, Betty Friedan wrote about the “problem with no name.” Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique detailed the widespread unhappiness of the idealised happy-suburban-housewife in the 1950s and early 1960s. So why have we returned to pining for these outdated notions of femininity?
This week Halima and her special guest, Polyester socials editor Eden Young, discuss why so many women crave a lifestyle second-wave feminists fought so adamantly against, and why feminism is not the reason we have to work to live - capitalism is.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.4 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:03.0 | And hello to our listeners. |
| 0:04.6 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Ayani, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester online, in front and everywhere else. |
| 0:12.6 | And I'm Halima, the community editor and co-host of the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:16.5 | This week, we have a sleepover club where Helima and I have all those gorgeous conversations |
| 0:20.9 | you usually have a sleepover with your mates. |
| 0:24.1 | And soon enough, we'll have an Obsessions episode where we speak to somebody we admire |
| 0:27.9 | about something that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. |
| 0:32.9 | Okay, um, how are you today, Halima? |
| 0:36.5 | I'm doing great, I only, how are you? Okay Halima? I'm doing great, Ione. How are you? |
| 0:39.4 | Okay, anyway, I think we food you guys enough. |
| 0:42.6 | If you guys didn't know, I'm not Ione Campbell. |
| 0:47.1 | It was a bit. It was a bit. It was a bit that went on too long. |
| 0:52.8 | My name is Halima, Tolima here. And I have a special |
| 0:56.5 | guest today. And it's Eden Young. Hello. So happy to be here again. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:04.5 | Our freelance leader in chief, Ioni Gamble, has COVID. So she's not with us today. But in spirit, Ione is with us. I mean, |
| 1:13.2 | that sounds so scary. I mean, she's, she's, she's coming back next week. Very morbid. |
| 1:18.1 | She's come back next week. But yeah, I feel weird in the podcast on myself. I mean, I'm not |
| 1:23.4 | about myself. Thank you, thank you. I'm a good hand because I'm with Eden. Okay. What are we talking about this week, Eden? This week, we're talking about the rise of the tradwife. Yes, yes. We're talking about the rise of the trad wife. And why do we want to speak about this today, Eden? Weanna is pregnant. There's been a lot. There's been a lot of discourse. A lot. A lot of discourse. When I only |
| 1:45.6 | mentioned it, I only was like, you guys should talk about that article about the whole like |
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