Last Thursday, Republicans ordered Alabama Senator Katie Britt to file a party rebuttal to President Joe Biden's annual State legislature speech.

The Brit is likely to have been chosen not only to assure the public that the Republican Party has room for women, but also as an antidote to the party's presumed presidential candidate Donald Trump. Given that Trump is a former president who has been impeached 2 times and indicted 4 times, it turns out he is responsible (2 times) for slandering women he sexually assaulted.

Her remarks received widespread criticism — in particular about a story that Brit told about women who alluded to sex trafficking as a result of President Biden's immigration policy — but her rebuttal also included a quieter and sinister message: Want to be a worthy woman in our version of America? If so, be Trad's wife.

"Trad wife" is a kind of emerging social media influencer who plays a more "traditional" role of wife and mom. Influencers of "Trad Wife", whose hair is perfectly trimmed and the house is perfectly maintained, favor the pleasure of making organic baby food for their children and washing her husband's clothes with homemade detergents.

"Trad wives" are most often white, cis, thin, healthy individuals,And devout Evangelical Christians, who, with a full face of makeup and a housewife-esque ensemble in their 50s, keep the house, take care of children, and feed their husbands.This trend is still seen as a niche," said Norm Spanser, a psychology professor at Otterbine University in Ohio today.com said in an interview in 2023 that it likely gained popularity in part because it acts as a response to cultural and social progress. He argued that "Trad's wife" and those defending them "are trying to bring society back to what some people see as less personal freedom and simpler time."

By all accounts, the Brit is deeply accomplished. At 40, she became the youngest Republican woman elected to the U.S. Senate. During her rebuttal, she spoke passionately about her own "American Dream" that took her to the Senate floor from small-town rural Alabama.

But unlike her male counterparts, Brit did not leave her immaculate kitchen to speak with the country. "This is where our family is having a tough conversation," Britt insisted. "It's a place where we hold each other's hands and pray for God's guidance.As Scarlett Johansson said during her SNL parody of Brit's speech: "The Republican Party wants me to appeal to female voters, and women love the kitchen."

The Brit appeared on a perfectly poised, soft-spoken camera and wore a carefully arranged cross necklace— to appeal "to the parents there - and especially to my fellow moms."After introducing herself, she said, "The most important thing is not work. I am a proud wife and mom of 2 school-age children.The message: You can work outside the house — as more women than ever do — and even become a U.S. senator, but that

even the state of the kitchen itself, which seemed to lack real cooking equipment, hides the inherent demands of motherhood while refusing to provide structural and sustainable support. I spoke to the Republican version of femininity and motherhood to deny.

As Lyz Lenz writes in her book, this American ex-wife, the so-called "trad wife," is often able to create and share content because of the help of housekeepers, nannies, family members other than her husband, etc., and rarely shows the difficult part of motherhood to the audience in the United States. For example, the unfair distribution of labor in the home, the growing mental health crisis for mothers, and the ever-present fear of gun violence in schools.

"The video she makes takes time. Promotion takes effort," Lynz writes of "Trad Wife" influencer Brooke Raybold, who has 325,000 instagrammers instagrammed instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrammable instagrams. "The performance of her home and family requires investment. She's not just a 'mom'; she's a business woman selling images, a nonexistent lifestyle.

The GOP has grasped the white knuckles on its fictional lifestyle, the Brit's rebuttal show, and it as they careens the nation toward another presidential election

Despite apparent support to mothers, the party has historically supported women and their families including food stamps and affordable housing. Today Republicans are holding rallies against free lunches, workplace protections for minors, and universal child care.

At the same time, the party clutches its proverbial pearl to the declining birthrate and the so-called "destruction" of heterosexual marriage - not because both are a threat to democracy (like, for example, candidates who promise to become "dictators on day one" and release insurgents from prison) or because having children or getting a divorce is bad for the country ( They are not), but because both are at odds with the type of woman the GOP wants to be all of us.

A woman of that type is happy to live in a country that has stripped her constitutional right to abortion care, threatened to deny access to IVF and contraception, and at the same time refuses to provide her social programs and safety nets to help care for her children.She's a woman who dares to dream, yes, but not so much — someone who can even become the youngest GOP female Senator, but always has to lead with "wife" and "mom""

But not all of us want to be that woman, or be that woman, and perhaps the near—universal backlash that the Brit has received. That criticism is not limited to the misguided things she said, or even the awkward and sometimes comical ways she talked about: she was a woman

but the party's version of "ideal femininity" is not sustainable and does not even exist, but what Brit shared in the rebuttal Fear-"次世代は私たちよりもreal.In The fact is that for half the population it has already realized.