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"A group of Australian women dress in flowing white gowns and flower crowns, but the hyper-innocent aesthetic is masking a very different reality.
These women spend their days mirroring a life 70 years in the past — that of the ultra-feminine traditional housewife.
They are largely housebound, bake cakes and breads for their husbands and know never to speak back.
Their lives are centred around the idea of establishing a 'village' just for them — encircled by their children and their childrens’ children and so on.
It sounds virtuous enough, but the picture-perfect domesticated bliss they are advertising is intrinsically linked to something more sinister — patriarchy and white supremacy.
These Australian 'trad wives' are married to prominent far-right activists. Criteria for membership is simple enough: Be young, white, fertile and willing to raise the next generation of Australia’s neo-Nazis.
'There are women in the organisation who are hateful and Nazis, some underage, many who have been brainwashed,' said a spokesperson for the White Rose Society, a group of anti-fascist researchers who have spoken extensively to ex-wives who managed to get out."
