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In a reference to the same journal 12 hoursColumnist Marina Bruzzese looked at a trend emerging from the deepest (and Mormon) corners of social media: “trading wives.” That is: young white American women who amass millions of followers with their videos where they chronicle their lives as Ingalls Family-style housewives, but 2.0. Christians, voters Donald Trump And wonderful. They see their purpose in life as a divine command to their husbands, to have as many children as possible, to learn how to make scratch cheese.

Trade Wives is coming up with a proposal after the height of the #MeToo movement, amid a resurgence of feminism following the resurgence of the far right. disturbance. If the “cold” and disruptive thing is to be a front Business woman Empowered feminist (neoliberal) and breaking the glass ceiling, now they are disruptors: Housewives under 25 are bucolic, “austere,” ultra-conservative, less consumerist, and 100 percent romantically returning to homeland, family, and religious life.. All of these are too well-oiled to succumb to the tyranny of the algorithm.

They get up at 6 a.m., put on their rough coats, say some Christian prayers, and knead and prepare some good scones. lunch box to their husbands. The hens in their organic egg pens have a better quality of life than this historian. For them, not having to conform to the “feminist impositions” of being independent, entrepreneurial and empowered women is “liberating”. After all, post-capitalism doesn’t seem to offer anything very interesting (to us).

The ethics of trailer moms

But since there is always a place for everything on the Internet, there is another side of the same coin. An extreme viral phenomenon this columnist calls: “Trailer Moms.” The moms in the trailers are young, white women who are also caregivers. They are typically single mothers under the age of 25 with multiple children living in trailer parks or dangerous environments. Moms in trailers are usually very cute BeautifulThey have a fragile and angelic aura, but at the same time, they are cruel, all-powerful mothers. They comply. They solve. They don’t complain. They work hard and develop the country.

Business-wife, even as they romanticize thrift, boast a dreamy, aesthetic lifestyle. Correct and country. The moms in the trailers are quite the opposite. If trad-wives are Laura Ingalls-style Barbies, moms in trailers walk around in joggers, leggings, and Morley tops. They are shown with greasy hair; Loose or tied into a bun. In their videos, children can be heard crying in the background as they put the camera in front of their faces as they cook, they demand. Mother, mother, mother. They, undeterred, continue their main work: cooking.

In their videos, it’s them and their tappers and plastic spatulas against the world. Without a partner, friend, neighbor, or anyone else to help them, the mothers in the trailers find themselves creating “realistic,” “real,” “authentic” recipes.. They don’t have the time or money to make bread with organic red fruit jam grown by a nun at the foot of a meadow.

They are “real” because they feed their children what they can at this time: fast food, ultra-processed, sugar-rich, hydrogenated oils, coloring, trans fats, carcinogens and microplastics. The real defiance of Juliana Avada’s organic garden. Kids eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, hot dogs, bacon, fried eggs, pancakes, hamburgers, chocolate, whipped cream, canned vegetables, noodles with cheese and cheddar; All fried.

They are provocative. They know their dishes generate controversy and conversation in online communities; Driven by their loyal followers or by their enemies. Their diet is less nutritious, creating more involvement and controversy. As Emily Bentley says: He doesn’t care what TikTok users say about his menu; She didn’t make those videos to entertain them, but for him. Salary (Invoice).

Bad Virus Mothers

Before the militant influence Health and Natural Food, which shows how they prepare organic spinach with Himalayan salt for their children, while the mothers in the trailers document their supermarket shopping themselves. Kilos and kilos of cans of Coca-Cola, small bottles of Gatorade, cheddar cheese, processed meat, cold cuts, frozen pizza, ice cream, industrial bills and cereal fill their shelves and refrigerators (allegedly low income).

They are the romantic social media stereotype of American women.”White trash“, and they work. They are young, beautiful and bitter. They take care of themselves. They’re a reassuring reflection of many mothers who don’t have the time or budget to feed their babies the most elaborate meals. LuxuriousWorth sharing on IG. While many followers are scandalized by their greasy children’s menus, they celebrate their visibility and normalization of the reality that millions of single and insecure caregivers live in an increasingly wretched and unequal market economy.

Be careful: they are white, good AmericanBeautiful and young is not a small detail. They are “bad mothers”, but in a way Cold. They create sympathy and admiration. Of course, if you’re black, fat, and have an “older” body, the comments won’t be flattering. They are bad mothers, but in a conventional way. Black women, immigrants, and pregnant women; Extravagant, libidinous, irresponsible and of course drug addicts.

My favorite Amma trailer Jesse Ray Aviles, a mother of five invites her followers to see how she makes her husband a lunchbox on a “lower middle-class salary.” (She doesn’t live in a trailer, but she has it Ethics) in a virtual landscape focused on looks and luxury, it’s interesting (and disturbing) that Jessie and other trailer moms have built their legitimacy, fan base, and empathy with millions on the Internet, in stark contrast to a Kim Kardashian. Its popularity may be a sign that the ambitious lives of Hollywood celebrities and the 1 percent no longer challenge, excite or attract as they once did.

Business wives and trailer moms have one point of contact in addition to their caregiving duties: Lack of community around them. Their interlocutors are their children, eventually their husbands or lovers, and their followers. But no one else. And, even though they both walk different paths, they share a similar sentiment: To be figures that resist the dictates of empowerment, aspiration, and capitalist neoliberal feminism that no one wants (or can accept).