i think the trad revival is mostly just people discovering that they hate living like they're in a wework

i keep seeing the “trad girls” discourse and everyone wants to make it about politics or catholicism or birth rates or whatever but half these people just seem to want to live in a house with wood floors

like you spend your twenties in a $1800 bedroom with a mattress on the floor, three roommates, a vape store downstairs and some guy named aiden doing ketamine in the kitchen and eventually an icon of the virgin mary starts looking pretty good

i don't even mean this as an insult. the weird thing is that the trad aesthetic is probably the first internet subculture in years that openly admits it wants life to look nice

everyone else is trying to optimize themselves into a linkedin profile while some 24 year old is posting a photo of a candle next to a statue of st joseph and getting 14,000 likes

maybe she has never read aquinas. maybe she just wants a dining room

honestly i think that's more politically interesting