Adaptive Daydream

Adaptive Daydream

No One is Making Me Do This

The Tradwife, the Girlboss, and the Myth of Women’s Choice

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Alyssa Allegretti
May 28, 2026
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Part 2: Choice is Contextual

The confused indictment of whether the tradwife is a perpetrator, victim, or all of the above usually hinges on the degree to which we can assume she is brainwashed. It is a question of her complicity vs. her internalized misogyny, and in turn her status as a misguided innocent or a vile gender-betrayor. The insistence that w…

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