My sister Bethany, the rabid right-winger, has started referring to herself on her TikTok channel as “O.T.: the Original Tradwife.” She got married straight out of high school a decade ago to her troglodytic boyfriend. She has five children with a sixth on the way. She homeschools her kids, because she doesn’t want what she calls “the woke virus” to infect them. She also beats them with a thick wooden paddle that says ALWAYS WITH LOVE. She never goes out except to church. She used to go to the supermarket every week, but now she has everything home-delivered, the best way to avoid libs and criminals.
Maybe none of her kids will grow up to die from a heroin overdose—foolish optimism, right?
Copyright © 2023 by David V. Matthews
March 23, 2023
(In other words, #123 on 3/23/23. I hadn’t consciously planned it that way.)
DAVID V. MATTHEWS 