Eve and Kieryn discoverd the Stay At Home Girlfriend/Wife/Tradwife tiktoks and note their remarkable similarity to the Above Rubies and quiverfull mommy/daughter blogs from the 00s, but with a dash of late-stage capitalism dread as a twist. What’s the motivation behind people outside of religion wanting to choose this? Listen to find out!

Show Notes:

• https://www.aboverubies.org/images/stories/magazines/ARMagazine69.pdf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_feminism
• https://politicalresearch.org/2021/07/29/why-are-gen-z-girls-attracted-tradwife-lifestyle
• https://www.thecut.com/2023/09/tradwife-content-influencers-conservative-ideology.html
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/fringe-left-alt-right-share-beliefs-white-power-movement/672454/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education 

The homeschooling movement has always been more diverse than it seems! Eve and Kieryn chatted with Dr. Lindsey Maxwell about the invisible history of homeschooling as told through magazines and newsletters in the 80s and 90s. Learn some things you didn’t know about the larger homeschooling movement and hypothesize about why women often buy into and enforce the Patriarchy.

Follow Dr. Maxwell:
https://twitter.com/LindseyBMaxwell
http://lindseymaxwell.com/

Did you have a purity ring or go to a father/daughter dance at your church? How does a homeschool prom work, and what happened to Eve’s sister that night at the Richmond homeschool prom in 2014? FUCK THE PATRIARCHY! *Eve takes a shot* 

http://www.hannahettinger.com/fuck-the-patriarchy-guest-post-by-clare/ 

https://gawker.com/teen-girl-ejected-from-prom-because-horny-dads-cant-sto-1575694507

https://jezebel.com/homeschooled-girl-kicked-out-of-prom-because-of-leering-1575704609 

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