In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is Tradwife. Trad, which stands for traditional. 我會把它翻譯成 “傳統(tǒng)嬌妻”.

如果你關注海外的社交媒體, 可能會在比如像TikTok這樣的社媒上面看到了這樣的一個越來越火的話題標簽：#tradwife.

The shares and videos with this #tradwife often show a curated look at women embracing domesticity.

與社媒上很多大女主獨立女性的標簽正好相反, 這些tradwife的標簽通常展現(xiàn)的都是一些女性, 特別是年輕女性去embrace domesticity, domestic life, 展現(xiàn)出來這些女性自愿地回歸到家庭, 去擁抱家庭生活;

不管是在她們的穿著打扮, 她們的理念以及她們傳達的信息, 都在顯示她們自愿, 并且非常享受這種traditional wife 或 traditional housewife的生活方式.

So a tradwife in recent western culture typically depicts a woman who believes in and practices traditional sex roles and marriages.

所以在現(xiàn)在的西方社會里面, 一個 tradwife 是被定義成擁護并且踐行比較傳統(tǒng)父權制度之下的這樣的性別角色以及婚姻形態(tài).

To put it in simpler terms, tradwife lifestyle is usually married in a straight relationship.

通常這樣的tradwife, 他們的生活方式都是在一個異性戀的婚姻里面已婚的狀態(tài).

The man works, the wife does not, 男人在外面掙錢, 女人在家里照顧家庭沒有工作.

The man is the head of the household and the final word on all things, financial, lifestyle and professional for the family.

男人是絕對的一家之主, 并且對于像家庭經(jīng)濟生活方式等等方面都有絕對的話語權.

Kids are a part of the plan if not already in the family. 絕對不會是丁克, 即使現(xiàn)在沒孩子, 在將來也一定會有要孩子的計劃.

So basically being a tradwife, you assume the traditional housewife or stay-at-home mother role and you do all of the household chores like cooking, cleaning, laundry, so on and so forth.

Additionally, special attention is paid to the importance of raising children.

其實就是傳統(tǒng)居家的這種家庭主婦, 全職太太, 甚至在英文里, 即使不是stay-at-home mom, 全職太太, 全職媽媽, 還有一個詞叫做stay-at-home girlfriend, 全職女友, 也經(jīng)常會跟tradwife一起被提及.

02 Tradwife 亞文化

Now it has already become a subculture.

A tradwife subculture is based on advocating for patriarchal traditional values.

And in particular, a traditional view of wives as mothers and homemakers.

而這樣的一個tradwife 的亞文化, 倡導的就是 patriarchal traditional values, 父權社會之下傳統(tǒng)的價值觀, 特別是traditional view of wives as mothers and homemakers.

這種價值觀體系里面, 女性作為母親和作為主婦這樣的角色.

Although some might frame their identity within a submissive or even biblical marriage.

這些 tradwife 也不盡相同, 有的人可能確實會強調(diào)自己就是一個submissive , 這樣很順從、低眉順眼的這種小女人的形象, 甚至擁護這種 biblical marriage.

所謂的 biblical marriage, 也就是在傳統(tǒng)的基督教的宗教體系底下, 也有跟咱們過去三從四德差不多的那些理念, 比如說要obey your husband.

Now, this might be what some people think.

But other tradwives claim that traditional marriage is the key to liberation from being overworked, economic insecurity and the stress of trying to survive in a world, hostile to women's survival and existence.

但是這些 tradwife 里面還有另外一部分人認為, 他們回歸家庭反而是一種解放, 讓他們不用再這樣一個整體對女性不夠友好的大環(huán)境底下, 去起早貪黑, 當牛做馬依然沒有辦法獲得經(jīng)濟上的獨立和安全感, 那么反而不如回歸家庭, 能夠在這種傳統(tǒng)的制定下活得更輕松.

03 Tradwife 起源

This whole tradwife trend started in the United States. Actually, if you dig deeper, there is a disillusionment taking hold among young Americans.

Studies show Gen Z is increasingly less motivated by the daily grind and adopting a more relaxed approach to their long term financial security.

Gen Z 也就差不多是00后這一代, 他們并不再相信那種搏命的雞血文化, 那種hustle culture, especially young women whether they are married or not, are expressing a desire to take a step out of the professional rat race.

特別是很多年輕女性就覺得不想再在職場里面當牛做馬的去卷了.

There's a lot of pressure on young women, for some being a stay-at-home girlfriend or trad wife might be an excuse to step back and do less.

However, according to some, there is nothing new about these taglines.

Author Eve Rodsky says of tradwives and the related social media trend of stay-at-home girlfriends, she said, “That is the definition of patriarchy — there’s nothing new here.”

不過對風潮頗有微詞的人就出來說說這個一點都不新, tradwife這個理念其實就是父權制的定義,

and tradwives are pretending they have agency over their choices, but they're actually taking huge economic risks. They don't have economic security.

并且警示這樣的女性說你覺得目前是輕松了, 似乎也獲得了經(jīng)濟上的安全感, 但實際上伴生的都是巨大的經(jīng)濟風險.

As you can imagine, this tradwife lifestyle has been criticized a lot.

Part of the reason is its associations in the US and Britain with the alt-right and white nationalism.

這種tradwife的風潮當然也受到很多人的詬病, 其中它受到攻擊的一個原因是因為在英美經(jīng)常會跟alt-right和 white nationalism 也就是所謂的另類右翼和白人民族主義扯上關系.

And critics often stipulate that and white nationalism embody what has been described as toxic femininity and internalized sexism.

抨擊他的人普遍都認為這種tradwife看似是女性的自主抉擇, 但實際上他擁護和鼓吹的是一種toxic femininity, 叫做有毒的女性氣質(zhì).

其實之前我們講過toxic masculinity叫有毒的男性氣質(zhì), 而且還有internalized sexism, 就是讓女性自己內(nèi)化的性別歧視, 認為我是女人, 所以我只能回歸家庭, 我沒有辦法對社會有更多的價值.

Now it might be interesting for you to know that the tradwife culture has actually a complicated relationship with feminism.

但是很有意思的是, 女性主義對于tradwife culture并沒有一味的抨擊, 因為這里面有一個點, 雖然有一些女性主義者會認為tradwife lifestyle is a rejection of feminism in favor of a return to simpler times and patriarchal family systems.

雖然有一些女性主義者當然覺得 tradwife 這樣的一個風潮是女性放棄掉已經(jīng)爭到的權利, 然后又重新回歸一個父權下傳統(tǒng)家庭的體系.

However, there are also feminists saying that we should support individual women's right to be a tradwife. They described the ability to choose as a feminist success.

他們就認為任何一個女性個體都應該有自主權去選擇自己的生活方式, 不管她是選擇做一個tradwife還是一個career woman, 而這種選擇權才是女性主義的勝利.

甚至有人說 the last thing we need as women is for some of us to feel superior and judgmental of others.

Putting women down is the patriarchy's job, not feminism.

女性主義追求的并不是一部分女性因為生活方式的選擇對于另外一部分女性的輕視和品頭論足, 這樣就違背了女性主義的初衷.

Now let's move on to the sample sentence.

例句示范

Sample Sentence：

-In the current economic climate, the tradwife lifestyle can be quite risky financially.