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93: Trad Wives and the Leisure Class with Professor Neil Shyminsky

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We are continuing with the topic of trad wives, but we are taking a different angle in this conversation. I’m joined by Professor Neil Shyminsky, who is an English professor at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario. He doesn’t teach a lot about literature but likes to focus on media studies, gender/sexuality studies, and socio-political thought. We begin with a clip of Professor Neil explaining the concept of the “leisure class” as it relates to trad wife content. Join us!


Show Highlights:

  • The “other” side of trad wife content: an idealized performance of domesticity and romanticization of a woman’s role
  • Professor Neil defines “the leisure class.”
  • Don’t always believe the story the camera shows! (It’s all carefully curated content!)
  • Social signals in how we “perform” our gender
  • Trad wives as the moral purity status symbol of their husband’s godliness and enjoyers of God’s richest blessings from living a life of submission
  • Thinking critically is key to understanding the truth about the values they promote.
  • The difference between liking traditionally feminine things and being a content creator who makes active choices about how they present their enjoyment of traditionally feminine things
  • The comparison between trad wife content and MLMs
  • Professor Neil’s advice: “Be thoughtful and self-reflective in what you consume.”


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