He Doesn't Want a Tradwife, He Wants Collateral
The Elijah Schaffer drama shows that tradwife propaganda isn't meant to make women more attractive to men--it's to make women more dependent on men.
In case you missed it (and having “quiet quit” Twitter, I did miss it, ultimately having to be notified by my subscriber chat) there’s drama on right-wing Twitter right now. Shockingly, it doesn’t involve anyone in the Epstein files, although just to be fair, I don’t think any of these people were invited.
Notorious right-wing influencer Elijah Schaffer (by “right-wing influencer” I mean “anti-race-mixing poster” not “low corporate tax enthusiast”) cheated on his seemingly-perfect tradwife and mother of his children with another right-wing influencer (Sarah Stock, who famously defended white nationalism in a viral debate clip, and who was also cheating on her husband/boyfriend at the time.) Apparently they worked together and this all began at CPAC. Given the extreme sensitivity of the issue, they chose to confide their sins in none other than…*checks notes* Milo Yiannopoulos.
This prompted multiple people to ask, incredulously, how such a thing could have happened. You’re telling me a man had a perfect tradwife at home and still cheated?? Quelle suprise!
I actually have no interest in the details of this scandal, nor do I want to spend more time than necessary covering D-list right-wing gossip. No doubt if I tried, I would screw up because I’m not very familiar with these people and would invariably get some lore wrong. (ie: “He didn’t do a racist Chinese joke, he did a racist Indian joke!! DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!”)
Anyway, what I found most interesting wasn’t any of the juicy details, but rather, people’s incredulous reaction to the fact that a man could have the ideal wife at home and still cheat. But she did everything right! She didn’t wear trashy makeup! She’s staying home with the kids and wearing a long dress! She’s simultaneously wearing a baby and cooking! She didn’t eat hot chip or lie!
But none of this is surprising. Despite its reputation for being male-gaze-oriented, the purpose of modern tradwife propaganda (often peddled by and consumed by people who weren’t raised in a traditional environment) is not to make women more attractive to men, but to trick women into doing things that make them more dependent on their husbands, and less attractive to other men. The men who further this agenda can maintain decent leverage and the upper hand in their marriages while sleeping with sexually available women they do find attractive.
Of course, not all men. I shouldn’t really have to say that, because most of the men reading this are fully aware I’m not talking about them. But there’s always one guy who’s like “hey, I’m a man and I never said this!” or “hey, why aren’t you talking about the female equivalent?” so, to clarify: I’m not talking about all men, or even most men. If you have never found yourself declaring that women should marry at seventeen, never learn to drive (except within an anti-car ideology; I’ll allow it) work or go to college, rest assured, I am not talking about you.
