Yesterday, I was scrolling through Instagram reels when I came across this video posted by a 'MAGA influencer' girl, responding to the growing 'trad wife' social media trend, where women showcase their cooking and traditional lifestyles.
Not to pick on @emilysavesusa because I’ve been seeing a lot of girls on the right counter signaling the ‘trad’ stay at home mom lifestyle lately also, but I think this message is ridiculous.
— Sarah Stock ✟ (@sarahcstock) May 1, 2025
Being a SAHM is not being ‘trapped’ by a man. That’s feminist BS. It’s also not… pic.twitter.com/2iiwnYCb0T
I agree that some of the "trad wife" content can be a bit of a LARP — being a stay-at-home mom isn't just frolicking in sundresses or making sourdough bread (although that might be part of it).
But overall, the development where young women are enjoying sharing the beauty and joy that comes from homemaking and taking care of children, in rebellion to the toxic 'girlboss' propaganda that we've all endured for our whole lives, is refreshing and overall a good thing.
Also, being a 'traditional' wife isn't just a trend. Most women have been making their children and their home their primary focus in life for all of history, and many still are, even in modern America. The fact that some are now promoting what is quite possibly the most normal lifestyle ever on social media doesn't mean nobody was doing it until five seconds ago.
But Emily Wilson, who goes by 'Emily Saves America,' wasn't just dogging on the LARPers. She is spreading a toxic, far-left feminist message about homemaking in general. If she were some random liberal girl, this wouldn't matter, but Emily has about half a million followers on all of her platforms– all people who look up to her as a face of the conservative MAGA movement.
Emily isn't the only one trying to push this crypto-feminist propaganda on young women; plenty of other spray-tanned Fox News types are doing so as well. So let's break down what she says in this video, bit by bit:
"Guess what, baby girl? [The chances of] that lifestyle working out, a man [being] a provider, you just get to sit at home and bake bread every day, [is] slim to none. I would say none that that's going to work out for you, or quite literally anyone you know."
Maybe it's because Emily has lived in LA for her entire life, but this part of the video truly confused me. Has she never met a mom who doesn't work a 9-5 job before? Because over half of my friends' moms growing up stayed at home to take care of the kids and the house.
Even now, I have friends who are age 20, 21, and 22, who have a baby they stay home with while their young husbands go to work. None of these people are wealthy; they've just made the proper life decisions and sacrifices to make it possible.
Emily is an attractive, skinny blonde who I'm sure has no issue finding men who would like to spend money on her and take care of her; she could easily stay at home with some babies, too!
"You're actually setting yourself up for failure, because it could not be easier, if that's what you're going to pursue, to be trapped by a man, okay?"
Holy feminist propaganda! This is what I mean when I say that some of us have internalized these feminist messages because we've been fed them over and over without giving them a second thought.
Ironically, in our modern day, isn't it men who should be more scared of getting 'trapped' in a marriage? With our divorce laws, a woman could choose to leave them at any moment, for any reason, and take half of their belongings. Sure, things can go wrong in a marriage, on both ends, but that doesn't mean it's not a risk worth taking.
You know what I think sounds like a trap? Being trapped in a fluorescent-lighted office for forty hours a week, staring at Excel Spreadsheets, while your two-year-old is raised by strangers in a daycare that consumes the majority of your income.
"Also, let's bring some other things to the table besides sourdough. Guys want to be mentally stimulated, as well as physically."
Someone's X response to this made me laugh: "'Guys want to be mentally stimulated.' Ah, yes, I’m sure it’s very mentally stimulating to hear about the ebbs and flows of an HR manager."
I think that a lifetime of feminist propaganda has created this false idea in Emily's mind, where a stay-at-home mom is nothing more than a boring slave, with no personality, interests, thoughts, or beliefs. If you're already a boring person, I don't see how working a boring email job is supposed to make you any less boring.
Not only is this rhetoric that stay-at-home moms are useless, uninteresting, or 'not doing enough' damaging to young women looking for direction in life, but it's a slap in the face to all the hard working moms out there who do the right thing by putting their families first.
I also don't think that the primary thing that makes a woman interesting to a man is her education or her career. For most men, unless they're the Harry Sisson soy-boy types, it's her femininity. A woman who dresses femininely and wants to dedicate her life to raising virtuous children and creating a beautiful, peaceful home is infinitely more 'interesting' to most men than a girl with a master's degree in marketing or business management.
"You guys are way too young to be promoting this, and by the way, it's cringe. You guys are cringe, okay?"
Wait—is 20 too young to think about starting a family? Are women supposed to wait until they're in their mid-thirties to do that, like everyone else? A lot of Gen-Z women have been smart enough to catch on to the fact that their fertility declines every year, and it's a lot harder to have a lot of healthy children when you wait until the middle of your life. It's also a lot harder to bag a husband if you wait till then, too.
I don't want to go too hard after Emily; she only recently joined the Republican party, and likely just hasn't given much thought to feminism and how destructive these ideas have been for society. They're pretty much the whole reason why our birth rates have collapsed, which has given our leaders an excuse to import swarms of third-world immigrants to replace us. But other women have been in the conservative movement for a long time, and are old enough to know better.
Remember this video that Megyn Kelly posted a few weeks ago?
.@MegynKelly: "They can't find a lot of young men who want to marry a working woman now. This is an actual problem that's coming up on the right. And to me it's so sad, because how did we get to the point where we're now telling young, conservative, amazing women that they're not… pic.twitter.com/7WIG98nIuD
— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) April 4, 2025
In this clip, Megyn complains about young men wanting to marry feminine women who aspire to stay home to raise their kids. Wow, what a travesty! Men want wives, not husbands! Who would have thought?
The response to this video from other conservatives was anything but positive, but you'd think she could have predicted that. So the question is, who is this video for? How come, at a time when positive developments are being made where young women are romanticizing a traditional, homemaking life, why would someone with such large influence feel the need to counter-signal it? Interesting.
Next, we have Congresswoman Nancy Mace. Nancy's whole shtick is defending women's spaces from transgenders (about two years after it became socially acceptable to do so) and yet she constantly brags about invading men's spaces!
This is so strange to me. 25 years ago I was celebrated as the first woman to graduate from a formerly all-male military college. Today I’m being attacked as a “bigot” for fighting for women's rights.
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) November 19, 2024
The radical Left has lost its mind.
I know that Nancy talks a lot about the dangers of DEI, but does she realize that being a woman in the military is quite literally a DEI position, every single time? The reason why no other women were attending the military school is that a) they were at home raising kids, as she should have been doing, and b) because when it comes to combat, women are just weaker, less competent versions of men. Personally, I don't trust my country to be defended by a bunch of feminists wearing pink camo suits. I'd prefer to have men who can carry twice the women's body weight. Please just do something you're good at instead!
Finally, we have our very own President's wife, First Lady Melania Trump. I think most people seem to have forgotten about this, but a few weeks before the election, Melania came out in support of abortion.
In this video, Melania says that all women have individual freedom and the right to their own bodies, and that apparently gives them the right to... kill their own babies?
https://t.co/ZCTwZSqZND pic.twitter.com/Y9MT3uj97b
— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) October 3, 2024
When conservatives promote seemingly benign liberal ideologies like feminism, it never really ends there. Feminism in its final form is pro-abortion and anti-family. It places the 'wants' of a woman over the 'needs' of her family and the rest of society, eventually leading to things like baby murder and extinction-level fertility crises.
One of the problems with the Trump administration's 'Big Tent' approach this election cycle is that we welcomed a lot of people onto our side of the aisle who are basically just liberals wearing MAGA hats. Now, we have a bunch of self-proclaimed 'conservatives' claiming that things like gay marriage and feminism are somehow right-wing ideas.
But we can't let these crypto-feminists get away with this– feminism has proven itself to be a soulless, civilization-destroying, baby-killing ideology. Girls, please don't stop making your sourdough bread videos, and please keep having more babies. You're doing more to save America than any girlboss in a MAGA hat ever will.