When the world is a disaster, people want nostalgia, even if it's a false nostalgia.

And this nostalgia for a quote-unquote better time when women were, quote-unquote, traditional is really obscenely misplaced.

There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

If you are a woman, listen out because I need to tell you something kind of important.

It turns out we have all been tricked.

Oh yes.

Feminism was a lie, and it was just a scam to get us working outside of the home so we could provide more taxable income to the government.

It turns out that we were much better off back in the 50s as traditional

housewives. Think about it. We didn't have to work outside of the home, and we could spend all of our

time raising our kids and running a household. And we were so much happier back then, too. You know,

back when we as women couldn't own property, couldn't vote, couldn't take out a credit card.

Oh, and it was also legal for our spouses to rape us.

So if you spend any time at all on TikTok, you're probably seeing an influx of this kind of content,

which is commonly called tradwife content, short for a traditional wife,

that posits that women weren't just happier, but also we were more empowered

when we stayed at home and embraced more traditional gendered roles in the household.

And I believe that this is not a coincidence. Against the backdrop of some pretty scary and

heavy political and social happenings, things like economic instability, impending climate crisis,

which always disproportionately

harms women more, the gutting of Roe versus Wade and the loss of the right to control our own

bodies. I think content like this does two things. One, it responds to and exploits the understandable

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