In recent years, some of the most vocal tradwives have left their husbands, renounced their religious faith and promoted financial independence. What is behind this sudden and seismic shift?
No one has this right, which drives me crazy, as they misunderstand the draw of this.
Making things can be fulfilling. I fucking love it. I make all sorts of stuff because is gives me joy.
Lots of people watch videos of people making things because it gives them a sliver of the same joy and satisfaction. Shit, that’s all HGTV is, the dopamine draft on other people’s work.
It’s the core conceit of disaffected youth.
So when young people try to do things without in person peers or sensible family to correct them, they think they have to make bread in a prairie skirt and bonnet like Ballerina Farm or whomever, and video it all, to be fulfilled.
They can’t separate the satisfaction of doing a thing from the dopamine hit of updoots and likes. So they conflate the two. Not their fault! It’s how they were raised.
Teach kids to do things with their hands. Build and make for the sake of doing and making and building. Even if it’s pie and bread and lasagna. Lasagna is fucking good.
No one has this right, which drives me crazy, as they misunderstand the draw of this.
Making things can be fulfilling. I fucking love it. I make all sorts of stuff because is gives me joy.
Lots of people watch videos of people making things because it gives them a sliver of the same joy and satisfaction. Shit, that’s all HGTV is, the dopamine draft on other people’s work.
It’s the core conceit of disaffected youth.
So when young people try to do things without in person peers or sensible family to correct them, they think they have to make bread in a prairie skirt and bonnet like Ballerina Farm or whomever, and video it all, to be fulfilled.
They can’t separate the satisfaction of doing a thing from the dopamine hit of updoots and likes. So they conflate the two. Not their fault! It’s how they were raised.
Teach kids to do things with their hands. Build and make for the sake of doing and making and building. Even if it’s pie and bread and lasagna. Lasagna is fucking good.