Over the past few years, a new trend has taken social media by storm. It's called “Trad Life Aesthetics.”
A woman in an ankle-length floral dress with long, perfect, untangled hair kneels under a cow to milk the cow, carries a basket full of fresh eggs on her hip, and waits for an empty space. Our timelines are filled with images of women with children holding onto their other hands. Motherhood in the countryside is a beautiful image, but allie beth stuckey The author of “Relatable” believes that it is not only far from biblical femininity, but also a little distorted.
While the trend of being a trad wife and living a trad lifestyle is prevalent on social media, Stuckey said in a recent interview that it's “more about aesthetics than traditional or biblical values.” ”.
“There's certainly nothing wrong with living on a farm, making your own sourdough, and homesteading. They're all great things,” Stuckey said. “But as this has become a trend on TikTok and social media, unfortunately some people have made the mistake of confusing the so-called trad life and being a trad wife with being a Biblical wife.”
After a clip of Stuckey's interview with Founders Ministries went viral on social media, proponents of the trad-life aesthetic began taking aim at Stuckey and falsely portraying her as a “feminist.” However, this could not be further from the truth.
“I know what Christian women in our generation, typically between the ages of 25 and 45, are worried, thinking, wondering, and confused. I feel strongly about it. I'm doing my best to talk about it,” Stuckey explains.
“One of the things I've noticed, in addition to many other trends we've talked about over the years, is that we're reaching a certain standard of being a housewife, akin to a 19th century homesteader. Recent pressure on
“Homeschool, bake, throw out all the harmful stuff, replace it with crunchy alternatives, and listen,” she continues.
“None of these things are bad. In fact, they're really good in many ways.”
But being “trad” doesn't make it Biblical, and it doesn't have to be “Trad” to be Biblical.
“You can be a loving, discipling, wonderful, wonderful wife and mother, a Biblical wife and mother, even if you don’t look exactly like the trad trends on social media. It can be a great goal,” Stuckey says. “But for Christians, motherhood is a mission empowered by the Holy Spirit. It's not just aesthetics that we must align on.”
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