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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You take care of the children, by which I also mean myself because as a trad husband I am a big baby that demands to be fed and clothed.

Also I'll only work eight hours a day. You get to work 24/7 with no holidays.

Yes this is good and fair.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You get to work 24/7 with no holidays.

Also it's free labor akin to slavery as you are paid nothing and are only provided the necessary resources to reproduce your labor - not even including the literal part of creating the next generation to Perpetuate the cycle

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 year ago

Also also you aren't allowed to leave. The trad husband can have ~indiscretions~ out on the town, but the trad wife stays at home.

Forever.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

yep and if you try to get divorced, my prenup states that i get to keep all the money because i did all the work!

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

also the whole thing is based on supporting an entire five person family on a single income

here is an economics lecture debunking the whole thing

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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I want mommy. I want milk. I want to be held! I WANT TO BE COMFORTED! And if you do not do all of these things immediately… I will ruin your life.

[–] Sator_is_Tense@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

complete with the huge boobs lmao they're all such porn addicted little freaks. jesus wept

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, until I saw the shoulder strap, I thought she was supposed to be carrying a baby wrapped in a quilt.

[–] MerryChristmas@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought she was snuggling a pair of chickens. I have no idea where that thought came from.

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

This is the future they are keeping from you.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

The tradwife must be reserved, modest, and virginal, but also dressed to show off her cartoonishly curvy body and eagerly up to do anything kinky porn star sex act.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That Hitler Youth/Viking LARPer hair/beard combo is always going to look clownish to me. yes-chad farquaad-point

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You want to have that haircut because you're an impressionable chud with no sense of personal style.

I want to have that hairstyle because it would be nice to be able to grow a not-goatee beard and have a full head of hair thonk-cri

sniff we are not sniff the same

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

That haircut is so weird to me, because that was an urban hipster look in like the late aughts/early teens, the exact opposite of the alpha chud type, yet they picked it up anyway. So whenever they have that cut it just looks like they’re cosplaying a Williamsburg barista circa 2011.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

Showing this to my prospective girlfriend but she just keeps waving a gun at me and shouting "Yes, I got a restraining order but he won't leave me alone!" over the phone.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many of these trad idiots are actually capable of providing for 3 or more people on one salary? Like yeah there's probably some overlap between these types and techbros but there's way more trad idiots out there than wealthy tech bros.

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How many of these trad idiots are actually capable of providing for 3 or more people on one salary?

On the one end, you've got the terminally online Reddit dorks doing TradCath cosplay. And for them, its next to none. Doubtful any of them have actually tried to do the math on what supporting five people costs, but if they have I guarantee they fudged the numbers by scratching out "Cost of Education" and penciling in "Home Schooling" or knocking their food budget down by scribbling "Vegetable Garden" or "Deer Hunting" in the margins.

On the other end, you've got the Silicon Valley folks that got Quiver-pilled. For them, its significantly easier to cover the basic standard of living. But they're coming to it so late in life that its impractical from a biological perspective. Like, the other 40 year old you've finally hooked up with isn't going to give you three healthy children. And while the Sugar Baby websites are abundant, the odds of you actually settling down and having a normal happy marriage with someone half your age who is explicitly only interested in you for survival is... bad. Real bad. Just ask Pappa Elon.

So either way, the fantasy is fucked. You pretend at doing survivalism out of your family's cabin in Idaho and surfing FarmersOnly.com for TradWives for a few years before even that becomes too expensive. Or you throw yourself into 10 years of grad school and hustle culture and Learn2Code boot camps until you break six figures and can afford a 1600 sqft ranch home built in the 1980s. Then get on Tinder and try to get anyone to notice you for five more. Finally meet someone you can settle down with, just in time for your social security to kick in.

[–] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A necessary component of proletariatization in Europe was the devaluing of female labor in the middle ages and subordinating them to only household work.

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[–] rubpoll@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Getting gender envy from this pls send help

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Refrain from jealousy for the early 50s housewife who has to calm herself down after taking too much of her cocaine prescription by polishing the Studebaker outside nineteeneightyfour

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Just take a bunch of horse tranquilizers, abandon your dreams and marry like, the worst fucking guy you have ever met

[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Stop playing dolls with wojaks.

Stealing that for myself.

[–] jabrd@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Thicker than a bowl of oatmeal

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Big BOOBA WAIFU

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