When Millennials invented the girlboss, Gen Z responded with the tradwife, complete with homemade Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereals and BMIs of 18 after popping out a half-dozen kids.

It makes them easy to hate.

Typically conservative and Christian, these women have traditional marriages, embracing the idea that it's OK for a woman to stay home, take care of their kids, and tend to the hearth.

It's a mindset, a lifestyle, but also an aesthetic that traffics in 1950s nostalgia.

Tradwives are also magnets for hate and judgment. "I'm sorry, 50 years ago was not a place I ever want to be back," quipped The View's Whoopi Goldberg, mocking these women's embrace of the older ways of structuring homes and marriages.

The critiques aren't totally wrong: Tradwives are sometimes performative, a made-

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