The article discusses how social media trends affect girls, potentially leading them towards alt-right ideologies, contrasting with the focus on boys. Social worker Jess Britvich highlights that seemingly benign interests like clean beauty and clean eating can devolve into anti-science and conspiratorial thinking. Additionally, 'trad wife' content might appear harmless but can promote rigid gender roles and ideologies linked to Christian nationalism and white supremacy. The discussion emphasizes the need for awareness of how these trends subtly steer young women towards radical paths.
These trends aren't inherently conservative or, dare I say, fascist at times, but they can be the starting point for a very slippery slope.
You can quickly slide down the slope to the alt right by engaging in content around distrust in regulatory bodies, anti-vax rhetoric, conspiracies around big pharma.
'Trad wife' creators might seem like your run-of-the-mill lifestyle influencer, when the actual reality is much darker.
'Trad wife' content quickly can slide into a conversation about promoting very rigid gender norms, anti-feminism and ideologies that contribute to Christian nationalism.
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