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#TradWives are not real housewives. “Fargo” shows us the heroic difference between the two

Dorothy Lyon is a stay-at-home mom who takes resourcefulness to heroic extremes. A tradwife would never do that

Published December 6, 2023 12:00PM (EST)

Internet-based subcultures that bleed into the mainstream are inevitably misinterpreted or incorrectly defined. Take the whole “tradwife” trend, for instance. As my Salon colleague Amanda Marcotte describes in her recent article on this weird phenomenon, so-called tradwifes are a strain of white, Christian TikTok influencers extolling the virtues of submissive marriage while dressing like pin-up fantasies.

Central to their schtick is exhibiting happiness at the thought of pleasing their husband and bending to his will in all matters.

“Fargo” provides an example of that dynamic in Jon Hamm’s Roy Tillman, a supposed “constitutional” sheriff who rules his North Dakota town more than running it. Tillman keeps his constituents in line by supposedly living by Biblical law, his interpretation of which is squishy at best; the New Testament doesn’t say anything about, say, misappropriating weapons to arm a local militia.

But the verse Tillman gets off on the most refers to a husband’s supremacy over his wife. “Jesus was a man, not some bearded lady. And just as water flows downhill, her husband is head of his household. Under him, the woman abides,” Roy riffs in the second episode, later adding, “He only raises his hand when she forgets her place and acts the........

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