'Trad wife' who quit her optician career to be a stay-at-home wife and 'serve' her husband insists it is her 'DUTY' as a woman to do ALL of the cooking and cleaning - as she slams critics who say she is 'oppressed' and 'lazy'
Feminists LOATHE all talk of biology but it exists nonetheless. And this woman has a head-start on happiness because she has chosen a role in line with her biology. My wife Jenny was delighted to be a full-time wife and mother. Feminism is a biological aberration
A trad wife has revealed how she quit her career as an optician to stay at home and 'serve' her husband by cooking and cleaning for him - as she shrugs off trolls' criticism that she's 'oppressed.'
Mikayla Herrmann, from Oklahoma, spends hours each day cooking, cleaning and tending the farm animals at home while husband Samuel Herrmann, 31, works as a blacksmith machinery company boss.
The 26-year-old homemaker quit her optician role in a big city to move to the countryside and became a full-time housewife after getting married five years ago.
Mikayla is the sixth generation of women in her family to stay at home.
The couple met at a church function in 2017 and 'immediately' hit it off, before getting engaged in May 2018 and marrying just three months later.
Dedicated Mikayla admits she loves the satisfaction of serving her husband meals made from home-grown vegetables, butchered meat from their farm and bread made with flour milled at home.
But Mikayla says she often receives Instagram comments from strangers branding her as 'oppressed' and 'lazy,' but says she chose to dedicate her life to being a housewife.
'I was always looking forward to meeting my husband and becoming a housewife because that's what I've always seen women in my life do and what I've always wanted to do,' Mikayla shared.
'My mom and [my husband's] mom have done the same thing, our grandparents have done the same thing. We're probably the fifth or sixth generation of home-making wives.
'We had always known that once we got married that [my husband] was going to be the provider for me and I would be the stay-at-home wife and take care of everything around the home.'
Mikayla's 'typical day' revolves around getting up 'fairly early' and catering to the farm and their animals.
She explained: 'In the spring and summer I have to get out there very early, take care of everything, milk our goats, hay the animals and work on the garden.
'I also try to cook everything from scratch from my home so that takes quite a while too to prepare for each meal.'
Mikayla continued: 'My husband comes home and he has breakfast here, he has lunch here and comes home for dinner, so I've got all of these different meals that I cook from scratch.
'It usually takes an hour or more of preparation before he comes home to be ready for when he comes home for it.
'I definitely feel like it is my duty to serve my husband and for him to be the breadwinner of my house.
'But he is such a kind person that he will never be frustrated at me if I'm having a bad day and I'm not able to get food on the table whenever he walks through the door.
'I try to do as much of that as I can because I feel like it is my job as his wife to make sure that he comes home to a nice house that has been cleaned.'
The content creator documents her life as a housewife on social media where she promotes homemaking to other wives but says she often receives 'hateful' comments.
'Someone had commented on one of my videos that I was a "tradwife" and I had to Google it because I didn't know if this was a bad thing or a good thing.
'I am definitely a tradwife. Our values are very traditional and pretty much every video of tradwife things that I saw, I can relate to.
'I love it because I get to promote homemaking to other wives who maybe don't have that multiple generation family, that are also homemakers.
'They don't really have somebody that they can relate to and I like being that person for them because it's something I've always grown up knowing that I want to do.
'I have gotten some hateful comments on my social media about being a homemaker.
'It's mostly just comments about being lazy and that I sit at home and let my husband take care of everything and I'm not doing anything that's fulfilling here.
'But this is really the most fulfilled I have ever felt because it's all I've ever wanted to do.
'People think I'm "oppressed" but I am definitely not. I chose to have this job. My husband isn't forcing me into serving him in any way.'
Mikayla and Samuel don't have children but hope to expand their family in future - and they plan to have home births and homeschool their kids.
'We do not have children yet. That's something we have been praying about for several years and we hope that God blesses us with children soon,' Mikayla shared.
'I absolutely cannot wait to become a mom. I think it will be so wonderful to instill these values in my children and help out with some of the farm things.
'We will most likely homeschool and do a lot of the traditional homemaking, homeschooling, homesteading type of things and hopefully have a home birth as well.'
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Liberal Parenting Contributes to Mental Illness in Kids
A widely ignored study from Gallup and the Institute for Family Studies shows that children who are raised in politically liberal households are more likely to suffer mental health problems than kids from conservative homes.
In the study synopsis Parenting is the Key to Adolescent Mental Health, author Jonathan Rothwell focuses on different parenting styles and how they affect child development. The study then correlates these styles with political ideology and mental illness among children.
“Conservative and very conservative parents are the most likely to adopt the parenting practices associated with adolescent mental health. They are the most likely to effectively discipline their children, while also displaying affection and responding to their needs,” writes Rothwell. “Liberal parents score the lowest, even worse than very liberal parents, largely because they are the least likely to successfully discipline their children.”
The parenting style spread between liberal and conservative parents is not small. “Just 40% of liberal parents scored above average on the index, whereas 71% of very conservative parents and 56% of conservative parents did,” notes the report. Researchers also found that, “Very conservative parents are also somewhat more likely to report giving their child hugs and kisses every day. Generally speaking, political conservatism is associated with more responsive and discipline-oriented parenting.”
The study does a good job of exploring the ‘what’ of different parenting styles and their impact on the mental health of kids. But it doesn’t look as closely at the ‘why’ that underlies different approaches to parenting. The exception is a passing hat-tip to, “the prevalence of routine experiences including... participating in religious experiences (like church).”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, political conservatives are more likely than liberals to identify as religious. Gallup released a study on politics and religion on September 1, 2023, and found that 81% of Republicans are Protestant or Roman Catholic, while 61% of Democrats similarly identified. The study also revealed that 26% of Democrats reported no religious affiliation at all compared with just 11% of Republicans.
What is it about faith and political ideology that correlates so strongly with the mental health of children? One factor that deserves attention is the presence or absence of biblical principles that define the respective worldviews of parents.
The Bible contains a great deal of wisdom on child rearing and it stands to reason that scripture, to a greater or lesser degree, informs the parenting style of Christians. Some of the most venerable tips on child rearing are thousands of years old, including those in the Old Testament book of Proverbs which recommends, “Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.”
Modern research affirms this ancient guidance. The Gallup/IFS study reports, “The percentage that an adolescent is in good mental health is 8 percentage points lower when the parents agree that they ‘find it difficult to discipline their child.’” The words of King Solomon and his successors are as true today as they were in the 10th century BC.
Fast forward to the 1st century AD and we read in Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus, “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” This too is reflected by current research. “Both harsh and overly permissive parenting predicts higher risk of mental health problems and problematic behaviors,” observes Gallup/IFS.
The issue of marriage and the attitude of parents toward it also contribute to a child’s mental health. According to the Gallup/IFS report, “Parents holding more pro-marriage attitudes are more likely to engage in best practice parenting.” The authors of the New Testament epistle to the Hebrews summed-up the value and importance of this institution simply and completely in writing, “Let marriage be held in honor among all.”
The rules of science and empirical research don’t allow for the supernatural in drawing conclusions, and that’s fine. But both increasingly support biblical truths, including this current study on parenting and the mental wellness of our kids. There’s a correlation between good parenting, good adolescent mental health and the Bible, and it ought not be dismissed or ignored.
It’s the latest example of how Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg was right when he observed, “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
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Was this the moment the Pendulum of Insanity reached the height of madness?
Will the pendulum of sanity swing back in our lifetime? When will the insanity that has infected every echelon of society – from schools to college campuses, politics, the media and beyond – reach its unbearable zenith? When will we really 'wake up' and walk back from the newfound McCarthyite hysteria that is sending us all mad with rage and injustice?
The wonderfully eloquent yet disturbing concept of the 'pendulum of sanity' was coined on Twitter this week by actor James Woods after a breathtaking moment of clarity in Congress.
A moment that didn't just shock America – its utter shamelessness captured headlines across the world.
The presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT (attended by Woods himself) testified to Congress about on-campus antisemitism — downplaying, denying, minimizing, and excusing.
All three presidents are women. All three, one would assume, are aware of the systematic rape, torture and mutilation of women, children – and men – by Hamas.
Yet here was Republican congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a Harvard graduate, questioning Penn's president Liz Magill on Wednesday. 'Ms. Magill: At Penn, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's rules or code of conduct? Yes or no?'
Magill took a beat and openly smirked. 'If the speech turns into conduct', she said, smiling widely, 'it can be harassment, yes'.
Stefanik: 'I am asking: Specifically calling for the genocide of Jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment?'
Magill: 'If it is directed and severe or pervasive, it is harassment'.
Stefanik: 'So the answer is yes'?
Magill: 'It is a context-dependent position… If the speech becomes conduct. It can be harassment.'
'"Conduct" meaning "committing the act of genocide"?' Stefanik asked. But Magill couldn't give a straight answer.
Fire her. But then, she should have been gone well before this disgusting display, holding her nose above an elected official she so clearly deems beneath her.
Magill was sent an open letter in September by The International Legal Forum, expressing 'grave concern' over the speakers Penn was hosting at its three-day 'Palestine Writes' event — scheduled during Yom Kippur.
Noted antisemite Roger Waters was one invited guest. Another, Randa Abdel-Fattah, 'has previously claimed that "Israel is a demonic, sick project and I can't wait for the day we commemorate its end",' the letter said.
Speaker Marc Lamont Hill was also quoted as saying that 'calls for Palestinians to 'reject hatred and terrorism' are 'offensive and counterproductive'.
Magill allowed the festival to proceed. No speaker was reported to have been disinvited.
Back on the Hill, MIT president Dr. Sally Kornbluth testified that anti-Jewish chants on her campus calling for an intifada 'can be antisemitic, depending on the context when calling for the elimination of the Jewish people'.
Harvard's Claudine Gay said much the same.
'We embrace a commitment to free expression, even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful,' she testified. 'It's when that speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies against bullying, harassment and intimidation.'
Can you ever imagine this response regarding hate speech directed at black, gay or trans students? Actually, that's impossible, because there's not one college campus that would brook the slightest hint of such bigotry.
As my esteemed Mail colleague Andrew Neil tweeted Thursday: 'Almost 30 years ago the top executives of Big Tobacco appeared before Congress in a performance from which they and their industry never recovered. This week's disastrous appearance by three Ivy League bosses looks [to be] doing equivalent damage to them and America's top universities.'
Indeed. The suspicion and distrust average Americans have long held regarding $60,000-a-year educations has now been borne out. And a sane-thinking world is lashing back.
Because the examples of insanity don't now come weekly or monthly. They arrive hourly.
Let's just start with academia – a toxic modern breeding ground of indoctrination which impresses on young minds to narrow, not broaden, their thinking.
In September, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression ranked Penn third-to-last among American colleges for freedom of speech. Harvard, meanwhile, received 'the lowest score possible, 0.00, and is the only school with an 'Abysmal' speech climate rating.'
Dr. Devin Jane Buckley, who holds a PhD from Duke, was 'deplatformed' — Ivy League slang for 'go f**k yourself' — from a speaking engagement at Harvard last year because she does not adhere to trans orthodoxy.
Here's an excerpt from an email, signed by 'X' — courage of convictions, that signatory — informing Buckley she was no longer welcome:
'Dear Devin, I have some bad news... my co-coordinator looked you up on google... [and] was surprised to find that your public profile is largely rooted in controversial issues regarding trans identity and that you're on the board of an organization that takes a public stance regarding trans people as dangerous and deceptive.'
And Buckley wasn't even speaking about trans issues. She was scheduled to talk about British romanticism!
So don't believe it when Magill, Kornbluth, Gay and their ilk say there's nothing they can do, that they would never prohibit free speech, and that antisemitism is contextual.
Here was the New York Times headline: 'Republicans Try to Put Harvard, MIT and Penn on the Defensive about Antisemitism'.
Yes, the self-righteous Gray Lady, which hasn't learned a thing since it routinely buried coverage of the Holocaust in its back pages, is now framing antisemitism as a partisan issue.
The same Times – contemporaneously describing those rounded up by Nazis and sent to concentration camps as 'persons' or 'refugees' rather than Jews — spent the days after Oct. 7 politely calling Hamas terrorists 'militants'.
Should we be surprised that Gen Z, in a TikTok frenzy, has adopted Osama bin Laden's 'Letter to America' as their new favorite treatise?
That a mass murderer, an antisemite who believed there is no such thing as rape, that women exist only to serve men, that any and all members of the LGBTQ+ community should be put to death, whose end goal was for the entire world to live under this barbarism — who wrote, in that letter, that America 'is the worst civilization witnessed by mankind' — has young American fans?
Young Americans who also believe that the United States, as much an idea as a country, is the worst place on earth? How do they square that assessment with the hundreds of thousands of migrants pouring through our borders seeking a better life?
This wrongthink is the direct result of a cultural rot that defines all white people as racist colonizers and all brown and black people as powerless, subjugated victims. Hence the Jews and Israel had it coming.
Tell that to the father of Emily Hand, the girl who turned 9 while held hostage by Hamas. Freed after eight weeks, Emily still speaks only in a whisper. 'She'd been conditioned not to make any noise', her father Thomas told CNN.
'Last night she cried until her face was red and blotchy,' he said. 'She couldn't stop. She didn't want any comfort. I guess she's forgotten how to be comforted.'
And these ostensible top minds, these advocates for social justice at America's top universities, defend such horrors with their silence, their refusal to unequivocally denounce this second Holocaust.
It's an infestation, a malignant cancer, and perhaps our greatest existential threat — truly, McCarthyism for the new millennium.
Most of us now live in one of two Americas — red or blue, bigoted or woke — but almost all of us are afraid to say what we really think or feel.
It's why Trump's election in 2016 and Brexit in the UK took the establishment elite in both countries by surprise.
The electorate is sick of being made to feel that because they may question DEI, trans orthodoxy, COVID regulations, or illegal immigration that they must be unenlightened, uninformed, hateful, dumb.
That if they're not seeing racism and transphobia everywhere, then they are the problem.
For anyone wondering why Trump is posting the numbers he is: This is the silent majority he's speaking to, the Americans worried about inflation, the destruction of major cities, soft-on-crime policies, a porous Southern border, resulting threats to national security, and a biased media that still insists Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian plant, that his lurid hiring of sex workers and alleged financial fraud are unprovable (despite damning new indictments) and that Joe Biden is totally fit to serve another term.
It's a reaction, too, to a cultural orthodoxy that tells us only certain stories matter now — and if you're a straight white male, no one wants to hear from you.
In an incredible recent piece for The Free Press, Cuban-American author Alex Perez wrote about the crisis in American book publishing, controlled by the so-called Big Five houses and already near-impossible to break into.
'The new dogma, industry insiders told me, is two-pronged', Perez writes. 'Books should advance the narrative that people of color are victims of white supremacy; and nonblack and non-Latino authors should avoid characters who are black and Latino — even if their characters toe the officially approved narrative.'
After George Floyd was murdered in 2020, the Big Five went on a DEI-led hiring spree, which resulted in editors 'who were out of their depth', Perez writes.
He quotes one insider as shocked by 'young people without previous publishing experience who struggled to write a professional email'.
This newfound ethos extends to what books now get published and heavily promoted. Perez reports that 'Pageboy', the memoir by trans actor Elliot Page, was bought by Flatiron Books for $3 million.
It has sold fewer than 68,000 copies – a mere fraction of the number required to recoup that cost.
Random House spent $500,000 on 'Lucky Red', a queer-feminist Western that has sold 3,500 copies. The novel 'Dear Miss Metropolitan', concerning three black and biracial girls held hostage in a Queens basement, went for more than $250,000 and has sold just over 3,000 copies.
'All the while', Perez writes, 'according to some prominent writers and editors, these publishing houses appeared to be discriminating against white male writers'.
Blockbuster author James Patterson said as much – before inevitably having to denounce himself. 'I strongly support a diversity of voices being heard', he said.
Of course. But that's not the point — just as you now can't be a biological woman advocating for your right to compete in sports against other biological women without being transphobic.
Riley Gaines, the former UCAA swimmer turned activist, also testified before Congress this week.
It was a consequential appearance, one that will inform the vote on Biden's proposed rule changes to Title IX, which would no longer protect biological women in sports.
Here was the greeting offered by 'Squad' member Rep. Summer Lee: 'It's disappointing to me that although the title of this hearing implies a much-needed discussion, we're likely going to be forced to listen to transphobic bigotry'.
I'm sorry — this is either a discussion or it's not. Lee contradicts herself here with amazing sophistry. She is basically saying she will not listen to Gaines or any woman who shares her concerns.
And this is in a week where two transgender cyclists, who present quite clearly as biological males, placed first and second in a major women's race.
But for biological women to question this — well, we are told we must sit down and shut up, lest we too be considered evil transphobes.
Gaines refused to be unfairly maligned by Lee.
'Ranking member Lee', she said, 'if my opening testimony makes me transphobic then I believe your opening monologue makes you a misogynist'.
Lee tried to have Gaines's comments stricken from the record. Yet another insufferable, hypocritical example of the left's 'rules for thee, not for me'.
Let's look at the cover of last Sunday's New York Times Opinion section.
'Who You Are is a Choice', reads the headline. 'The panic over transgender children is driven by the fear that they'll regret transitioning. But the freedom to make mistakes is core to discovering your identity'.
What? No one is saying that kids shouldn't be free to make mistakes. But there's a difference between having ice cream for dinner and medicalizing yourself into permanent infertility before the age of 18 — not to mention that the human brain doesn't reach adulthood until age 25.
It's shallow, specious arguments like these — presented with moral surety and philosophical self-congratulation — that have left a silent majority feeling insulted and abandoned.
People like the nine-year-old boy, in face paint and Native headdress at a recent Kansas City Chiefs game, who was publicly shamed as 'hating black people and Native American people at the same time', by Deadspin writer Carron Phillips. Nine years old.
'He is Native American', the boy's mother wrote on Facebook. 'Just stop already'.
Yes.
That's the lament of Americans everywhere, outraged by the bosses of top universities quick to assail everything but outright hatred of Jews, that what we're seeing with our own eyes — be it biological male athletes trouncing women who can't compete, or a president so feeble he falls up staircases, or terrorism justified as anti-colonialist comeuppance — can't be believed.
Just stop already.
We see it all. And so the pendulum hopefully begins its swing back to the center of rational, commonsense thinking.
After this week's deplorable testimony regarding campus antisemitism, major Penn donor Ross Stevens threatened to withhold $100 million unless Magill resigns. I have no doubt she will be the first to go and not the last.
After all, even those of us without Ivy League educations know real prejudice and hatred when we see it.
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The Tragic Aftershocks of ‘Gender Affirming’ Care
What happens when gender-confused children who have been persuaded either by the Internet, their schools, their psychologists, or their physicians that they are transgender discover in their late teens or early 20s that they were lied to? That they cannot change their gender and, in fact, they prefer their biological gender to the facsimile they came up with for themselves?
We are starting to see a litany of these older teens and adults coming forward with their testimonies, and they are going after the medical industry that led them down the veritable garden path. They are called “detransitioners” and they are the “lucky” ones.
“Gender affirmation” treatment and the medications and surgeries that go with it are big business. As The Daily Wire reported last year: “The industry surrounding transgender surgeries is expected to reach $5 billion by the end of the decade. According to a recent report from Grand View Research, the sector saw a $1.9 billion valuation last year and is forecast to expand at a compound annual growth rate of more than 11% through 2030.”
To provide Big Medicine with the cover needed to keep raking in the dough, transgenderism was adopted by the cultural Marxists and progressive feminists (but we repeat ourselves). Transgenderism became part of the intersectional coalition and therefore a protected political class. Soon no one was allowed to question the movement, and medical professionals bolstered by the LGBTQ activists began their experiments on young girls and began to manipulate their parents.
Some of these detransitioned young women who are coming forward with lawsuits were put on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones after their first visit to the mental healthcare provider. One was only 12 when they started messing with her body chemistry.
Chloe Cole, the first of these brave women to come forward and sue her abusers in the medical profession, was convinced to do a double mastectomy at 15 years of age. Since her lawsuit, a dozen more people have come forward to sue the unethical physicians and mental health professionals who took advantage of their fragile state and youthful ignorance, convincing them to harm their bodies.
Hitting Big Medicine right in the pocketbook might prove the key to knocking the whole castle down. The Washington Times, paraphrasing one of the lawyers representing three detransitioners, wrote that “the medical community would one day look back on medicalized gender transitions with the same contrition as lobotomies and the overprescription of opioids.”
LBGTQ activists love to claim that the number of detransitioners is relatively small, though the studies they use to back up these claims only follow “trans”-identifying patients for a year after their treatments have started. Larger studies like those conducted in Europe (no shock there) found that many regret their choices and, even more frightening, their suicidality does not diminish even after all the “affirmation.” Some studies even found that as many as 20% of people who decide they are the opposite gender detransition. That number may become even higher as other women hear about their peers’ disillusionment with transgenderism and that ideology.
The Rainbow Mafia, left-wing media, progressive politicians, and leftists abhor the existence of detransitioners. These brave souls (mostly women at this point) are living proof that gender ideology is a big fat lie. Their abusers are aided and abetted by activists, media, and politicians, and they deserve better than that. As National Review so aptly notes, “Detransitioners now deserve advocates whom they never had during their gender-identity crises.”
Detransitioners deserve justice. Those of us with voices and platforms need to elevate their plight and put an end to the madness that is gender ideology. Because in the interim, young children — many of them girls — are heading down the same horrible path.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/102728-the-tragic-aftershocks-of-gender-affirming-care-2023-12-08
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