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Oct 14, 2026
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"It's not that weird." You are listening to a reading of articles and features from The New York Times Style section on the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service.
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Next article, "When a Trad Wife Stops Being a Wife and Trad." The first time Bernadine Barber saw the word "trad wife," it was being used to describe her.
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She was not yet thirty.
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She had three children, and her Instagram content promoting traditional gender roles was gaining a following.
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She had started going by Bernadine Bluntly online, a name to reflect how plainly she spoke her truth.
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Now she'd been drafted to represent the trad wife at a twenty nineteen right-wing event in Miami.
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The digital flyer drew her in an anime style in a modest dress with an infant pressed to her chest.
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For a time, she posted family vlogs, "But somewhere along the way, I started talking about politics too," she said, "and it was the political content that really took off." Her breakout post was in support of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.
ErinNARRATOR
She had three children, and her Instagram content promoting traditional gender roles was gaining a following.
ErinNARRATOR
She had started going by Bernadine Bluntly online, a name to reflect how plainly she spoke her truth.
ErinNARRATOR
Now she'd been drafted to represent the trad wife at a twenty nineteen right-wing event in Miami.
ErinNARRATOR
The digital flyer drew her in an anime style in a modest dress with an infant pressed to her chest.
8 MINS LATER
ErinNARRATOR
For a time, she posted family vlogs, "but somewhere along the way, I started talking about politics too," she said, "and it was the political content that really took off." Her breakout post was in support of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.
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"It's so ironic now," she said ruefully.
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"That was my introduction to actually having a voice or influence." She branded herself Bernadine Bluntly and opened an online storefront selling twenty-five dollar shirts that read, "RIP feminism." Though she rarely shared details of her family online, "my lifestyle of having s- had so many kids was speaking for itself," she said.
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As trad wife influencers were fruitful and multiplied, she created a digital course for young women, Simply Smitten, in which she dangled the keys to courting godly men.
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I started following a bunch of tradwife accounts a few years ago.
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I was particularly interested in this one by this woman Bernadine Bluntly.
JennySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
She would make these videos that were about how traditional roles prescribe that women should be submissive to their husbands.
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Shout out to the men who do these hard jobs, who take these risks so society can function.