Truly Tradly Deeply Episode 1: Introduction — “All I Think About Is Buying Cows”
The first episode of Annie Kelly's 6-part podcast miniseries Truly Tradly Deeply. Cursed Media subscribers have access to the first two episodes right now, plus each new episode as they are released weekly.
This series immerses you in the online world of "tradwives" through social media feeds, videos, and podcasts, so we can understand both its genuine appeal and its real‑world consequences.
In our kickoff episode to Truly Tradly Deeply, Annie Kelly and Megan Kelly dive into the glossy, algorithm‑friendly world of “tradwives.” Why has it exploded from fringe subculture to mainstream lifestyle brand? We open with the story of the rise and unmasking of “Patriarchy Hannah,” a Twitter persona built on radical submission, to ask what, exactly, counts as a tradwife and why the aesthetics of “ancestral” femininity are so powerful right now.
What’s inside
How tradwife content differs from stay‑at‑home‑mom content
A history tour: from anti‑suffrage campaigns (including the famous Swiss “No to women’s voting rights” poster) to Phyllis Schlafly, and the slogan “feminine, not feminist.”
Why “girlboss” neoliberal feminism and trad messaging can sound weirdly alike. Both lean on ideas of personal choice while dodging structural inequality.
Two audiences, two internets: the soothing homemaker feed aimed at women vs. the spiky, sexualized “Red Pill Tradwife” content built for men.
The political stakes: how hyper‑feminine imagery is being weaponized by the far right, from European “remigration” messaging to U.S. campus politics, and why women are increasingly central to that project.
To listen to the second episode of Truly Tradly Deeply right now plus the rest of the episodes as they are released weekly, follow this link and subscribe to Cursed Media today.
In addition to Truly Tradly Deeply, Cursed Media subscribers also get access to the podcast miniseries Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows, Manclan by Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly, Trickle Down by Travis View, The Spectral Voyager by Jake Rockatansky and Brad Abrahams, and Perverts by Julian Feeld and Liv Agar. Plus, Cursed Media subscribers will get access to at least three new exclusive podcast miniseries every year.
Comments (69)
Damn
In episode 4 there was discussion of a white trad dying the hair of her mixed race children blonde. The Knitting Cult Lady made a video about blonde as racial signaling, not a hair color. My humble contribution to this excellent project: https://youtu.be/B-FLt4bYTqs
I hope the Kellies will find it in their hearts to play this banger in some episode (Kay Weaver - Woman's Liberation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_69IPbCceQ
Some of the advice of neo-liberal and post-feminism promoters reminds me of what Silvio Berlusconi (the original Trump-style populist) advised to young women on how to address economic security: "Just marry a billionaire"...
Annie, it’s the “Democratic Party.” It’s just what it’s called. “Democrat Party” was invented by the right and pushed by Fox news because its bad PR to oppose the “Democratic Party.” It’s PR, it’s spin. I couldn’t care less about party politics but it’s good to know who you’re borrowing words from. If you don’t, you’re could be doing Rupert Murdoch a solid.
All of these women just remind me of the wife character in Handmaid's Tale. You're going to get everything you ever wanted, and it's going to fucking suck.
Both Science in Transition and this series are so good, so well researched and well presented, so thorough and deep, I’m really loving them, really looking forward to what’s to come
Is the Cursed Media platform working? I currently can't login in [other that the new subscriber page]. The side menu with the login and episode options isn't visible. The link to Truly Tradly Deeply episodes in the Cursed media subscriber emails isn't working [404 bad gateway]. Is anyone else having issues? I really want to listen to more Truly Tradly Deeply episodes! Also...there's no help and support email option listed at the bottom of the emails or online anywhere that I can find. Is it just an account/technical issue I'm having or, are any of you struggling with access? Ps. If anyone has contact email for Cursed Media sny advice that'd be great.
This episode is bringing out my inner Julian.
Hey QAA team, I’m subscribed to Cursed Media, any reason why the new series isn’t up on Spotify?
This was totally fascinating to me as someone who has had virtually no exposure to tradwife subculture. I always thought it was an aesthetic thing, but it follows a lot of patterns of conservative politics. Idealizing a semi-recent past, sorting lifestyles into good or bad, emotionally justifying your place in the social hierarchy. Listening to those influencers, I'm struck by what seems like a very earnest plea for dignity and comfort with this vision of the life they want for themselves, but the way they blame its loss on other women for living their lives the way they want to is bizarre.
As an incredibly religious and devout atheist with a complicated dating history, after hearing this- it all suddenly makes sense to me. Excellent work & glad to be a paying subscriber of QAA & Cursed Media... PS: I often share content with women and their response gives me hope. Next problem: getting more men to listen...
I actually found a signed thank you letter from Phyllis schlafly to someone at the thrift store a few weeks ago for under $5, figured I'd put it online and take some idjits money
The Trad wife movement is a first world hypocrisy. Why do I say this? There is a (failed mostly) legal movement to make domestic violence in central america a basis for asylum in the US. Women in ‘trad wife’ relationships are beaten mercilessly and given no respite from police or the courts in the their countries. These maschismo societies consider woman to be men’s property, and they are forced to live in a claustrophobic hell of a mindset that, as a woman, you cannot complain, you cannot leave the relationship, no matter the abuse, no matter how violent their husbands. Its really insulting that white women want to move closer to traditional marriage, because you have examples of this, and these women are fleeing their countries to try, against all odds, to make it to a better more feminist country.
“I should be able to cook my husband a meal and pay his credit card.” Wow. Congratulations. You just described the typical American marriage. Like, you can’t be that fucking dense to just take this as some revolutionary trad wife model.
Rest in piss Charlie “da throat GOAT” Kirk you won’t be missed
I wish there were a way for a society to keep so many people from growing up always desperately yearning for human life to have been "solved" like tic-tac-toe, and seeing the ambiguity & mutability of things as such a threat. But there probably isn't, not that wouldn't be its own kind of coercive dystopia. I hope I'm wrong about that.
Accurately describing how capitalism sucks and blaming liberals is next level
I was thinking about that and I think they like the hierarchy inherit in capitalism but not so much the soul grinding excesses of it. The hierarchy wins out but someone has to be blamed for the latter.
This is actually a pet peeve of mine. If you are wondering where a relevant term or fact came from, look it up. Don’t speculate (incorrectly) during the podcast. Look it up. Edit afterwards, you can do that. It’s lazy to just say “I wonder where that came from”.
Right? Especially when it’s a premium miniseries where they’ve talked about how they hire researchers and such lol
I wonder if part of the reason Christian tradwife content is more visible is that other religions (Muslim, Jewish) aren't in English?
That or those religions are “too foreign” or “too brown”. It’s pretty self evident that this tradwife content slop is directed to racists and kink enjoyers and racist kink enjoyers.
Hope I'm not jumping the gun by commenting before finishing, but I wanted to flag the whole Not Working thing. Homemaking & child care IS in fact doing labor, the difference is it's unpaid and considered lesser. I've seen this kind of work called "reproductive labor" which encompasses not just the work of literally reproducing but also the work of like, replenishing both the self and other laborers (in this case, the husband) as well as preparing & caring for non-laborers (children, elderly, etc). You might've also heard about this as "the second shift". This reproductive labor has been expected of women ever since the patriarchal line style of family was established, but it was/is also something rich women could offload onto poor women via nannies, governesses, etc. This labor is needed by capital as a whole (gotta eat after a shift, gotta have more kids to work more shifts) but is devalued and labeled as not being labor.
They do talk about the second shift in the second episode
God I miss when being married by 21 boosted the mental health of women!
Biologically designed to own cottage cow, forced to room with urban housecat
Annie Kelly 💕
ANNIE KELLY!!!
Wiki The phrase "barefoot and pregnant" seems to have been introduced in the early twentieth century by the American doctor Arthur E. Hertzler, who said: "Some vulgar person has said that when the wife is kept barefooted and pregnant there are no divorces."
🎶Well, I wanna grow a sourdough starter, I wanna brine almonds in the sea, I want to grift like this forever; until the feds investigate me."🎶
Oh my god what an earworm
do these women know that women have literally always worked outside the home jesus fucking christ like do you know who does farm labor? do you know about garment factories? the housewife is an invention of industrial capitalism. Like white middle class women didn't even breast feed their own children in the 19th century that's what wet nurses are for. Even a struggling middle class family in a city might have a maid of all work and a cook. We've always been fine with poor and nonwhite women working.
Crazy isn’t it? Truly no sense of history
“I hate this world where there’s all this pressure to succeed and it seems the only relationships with people around me are competitive and the only choice is to spend my short existence on earth advancing in education not designed to teach me things of interest but prepare me for an economic system where I am exploited and I’m defined by my relationship to my work…. Oh yeah I’m right wing. Yes I love capitalism it’s the greatest! My world view? Yup totally coherent and sensible in that we shouldn’t do anything to effect the world collectively, just cosplay like it’s 100 years ago! Like and subscribe tho thnxs bae!”
As a man, I find tradwifeism very alienating. What do you mean you can withdraw from the labor market and self-actualize, but your husband still has to sell his labor and face daily alienation?
You and me both Craig… let me introduce you to a little thing called “fore-hubby” content. Forget modernity… men are transcending societal norms, kind of like a Philip k dick novel, except utopian. Basically you get a wife and be really nice and supportive, fill your home with alexas/siris/ai bots that constantly talk about how successful your are, but really you pay this doctor I know to diagnose you with severe mental illness, quit your job and get on disability, find a reliable dark web oxycodone hook, and watch tv for 16 hours a day… it’s the future!!
As a poor im the first woman in my family who had the luxury to be a stay at home mum. (Partly, I couldn't do what my mum did and take a kid to work with her lol)
this was awesome
I am the biggest annie kelly fan in the world
Yeah, the dumb-mean-girl-to-tradwife pipeline is real. The smart mean girls become nurses. The dumb ones become this …
dont forget the ones that work in HR
Do this idiots think no one works on a farm?? My maternal grandparents ran a dairy and you’d better believe my grandmother worked her ass off!!
The University of Exeter has just published a book called The Experience of Work in Early Modern England, which gives you the scientific background that more than half of the women in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries had paid jobs outside the home and were contributing to the family's income. So not only did women work within the home and family business, they also worked outside of the home and family business.
Hearing the woman complain about the economy im like vibrating in my chair screaming "youre so close!!!!"
Feels like a lot of right wing/trad cosplay is just forcing everyone around them to publicly accept and adopt their sexual fetishes.
THIS! So… the red-pilled trad wives are extreme switches?
I assume the "barefoot" part is supposed to signify that you're confined to the home? She has no need for socks or shoes to walk on the hard dirty ground outside, she's not going ANYWHERE.
So I might be posting this too early but how do they propose we deal with ~50% of the workforce just disappearing and even less income being obtained by families?
The whole "I'm boss babed out" line is fascinating to me, because it's gender-coding the more universal exhaustion and burnout of our "grind set" society I have a six inch long beard and I, too, am boss babed out!
Yeah, that's just capitalism. Those ladies need to make themselves familiar with Marx's theory of alienation.
Tge full barefoot and pregnant saying is 'Keep her barefoot in the winter and pregnant in the summer so she can't leave.' It's fucking horrifying.
Annie Kelly!
Fun episode, but I’m kinda disappointed that the premium ep slot js being used to advertise another subscription Thats marketed on giving access to previous series I’ve already paid for
its on the non-paid feeds too. this is a free ep for everyone
i feel like you never hear about trad moms with teenaged children
They don't live that long
Hey is this gonna be available on spotify? Was able to set up Science in Transition over there but can't do it for this series for some reason?
ngl this feels all very cybersmith levels of kink nonsense to me
Great episode by the Kelly sister-wives
Lets gooooooooooooooooo
Annie Kelly
Ooh fabulous!
First. For the Patriarchy. Great episode.
Annie’s back :]
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Hannah talking in the biblical baby voice : [