I rarely watch The State of The Union Address. I didn’t even like pep rallies in high school. But I hear Joe Byron did a good job being “forceful” and “energetic” last night. Which is good, I guess. I’ll vote for him regardless, because the presumptive challenger is unacceptable.

I’m really tired of playing this game: choosing between two old white guys who pee in our glasses swearing it’s chardonnay. But “democracy is on the line” and all that.

Meanwhile, I hear that the GOP rebuttal was given by the junior senator from Alabama, one Katie Britt, in what all the smart people are telling me is the GOP’s strategic shift to the “Traditional Wife (Trad Wife) Movement.”

I have thoughts on the “Traditional Wife” movement.

None of them are good.

Or particularly kind.

Trad Wives spat on Ruby Bridges as she tried to go to school.

In “The Good Old Days”, Trad Wives could only cater to the whims of their husbands because of the labor of non-White women (whose children were not allowed in their schools) taking care of their homes, and often, their children.

At the heart of the Trad Wife movement is misogyny and White Supremacy and a caste system that will eventually exploit the demographic it claims to “protect”. It’s the same warmed over BS from White Citizens Councils and The Drug War(s), namely: “We will protect you from the scary black/brown/Muslim/queer people. Never mind that ‘purity’ is an illusion.”

We could be mining asteroids.

Or curing cancer.

Or learning innovative new ways to feed people.

Yet I fear we’re going to have another “debate” on whether a woman’s place is in the home. A debate that never included women of color or poor white women in the first place.