In Defense of "Filthy" Fisherwomen
Against toxic trad-wife cosplaying.
I’ve refrained from commenting on the “trad wife” trend but not anymore.
This week, proponents of the fetish - women cosplaying as 1950s wives or whatever - lambasted a famous noodler named Hannah Barron. One such "influencer" - a Kremlin propagandist fired for praising Stalin’s gulags and, unsurprisingly, an Andrew Tate fangirl - suggested Ms. Barron's Southern accent and her partaking in noodling makes her "filthy."
Another X user insinuated men who are attracted to “tomboys” like Hannah aren’t sexually attracted to women.
Given how prevalent engagement farming is on Twitter/X now, most users condemned these outrageous tweets and ratioed the two aforementioned individuals.
I am encouraged by the thousands of guys who chimed in. They praised Barron for being naturally pretty, athletic, confident, and self-assured — saying they prefer women like this over pampered and high-maintenance ones. We have our own debates in the fishing industry over wearing bikinis or not; this display, however, is VERY tame.
These Very Online *trad* types - male and female - have conjured up unrealistic standards for women today. Here are some examples I’ve seen in the last year:
Bake sourdough bread or else guys won’t wife you up.
Guys don’t like women with opinions.
If you’re still single in your 30s, you were promiscuous and it’s your fault (but guys can get a pass for being promiscuous).
If you are celibate and/or virginal, you’re weird and undatable.
Now if we dare fish and do “tomboyish” activities, we are too filthy for American guys. This is yet another example of how extreme this trad wife brand is.
If you think I condone radical feminism, you’re sorely mistaken. Both trends are toxic and bad for women and men. Both lose under these extreme choices.
This curated “trad” lifestyle is expensive and can lead to relationships or marriages disintegrating. And ironically, this is hardly emblematic of traditional families but of sexual fetishes. I, as a “traditionally-minded” woman, will not submit to this foolishness. Neither should you.
I appreciated conservative commentator and author Liz Wheeler chiming in here. She wrote on Twitter/X:
Red-pillers are wrong again. This particular post is actually very telling. They pretend to want “trad” feminine values and claim their criticism of American women is only a critique of feminism & the divorce & family court system… But actually they view women as inferior. (Some red pill accounts say this outright.) In almost every culture & point in history, women have been the HELPMEET of their husbands & fathers, if you really wanna talk trad… Helping with farming, homesteading, the MANUAL labor of housecleaning and cooking and laundry before appliances, plus helping with the family business or store, in addition to bearing children & raising families. You know, civilization building. It’s way more feminine to have a healthy relationship with her father & work on family projects with a bright happy smile on her face and a healthy strong body than it is to languish at home with an cohabitating unmarried “partner” dressed up like a 1950s dollhouse figure, like so many TikTok “trad wives” do. But again, red-pillers want her to be the latter because they believe she’s inferior to men. Utter nonsense; it’s not a competition between men & women… unless you’re trying to divide people by sex the way leftists divide people by race.
Another Twitter/X user re-upped this brilliant Alexis d’Tocqueville quote from Chapter IX: Education Of Young Women In The United States of his seminal work, Democracy in America (1835).
“She thinks for herself, speaks with freedom, and acts on her own impulse. … She is full of reliance on her own strength. … It is rare that an American woman, at any age, displays childish timidity or ignorance. … I have been frequently surprised and almost frightened at the singular address and happy boldness [of] young women in America … an American woman is always mistress of herself.” — Alexis de Tocqueville
I've been fishing since I was 8. This is how my dad and I bonded. He wanted to ensure I'd be tough yet girly.
Fishing teaches patience, self-reliance, and how to be a conservationist. Like men, women can emulate these qualities and still be virtuous. This is NOT filthy behavior.
If being a woman who fishes, hunts, and gets her hands dirty makes us filthy tomboys, then so be it. I’ll wear this as a badge of honor. Fortunately for us, most men would kill for women who partake in these activities. It beats being vain, vapid, and Very Online.
Cheers to all the healthy, happy, feminine women who get their hands dirty and go fishing.
Let’s continue to grow our ranks!