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"I no longer believe in extreme gender roles, especially when they’re wrapped in spiritual language."

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"If any belief system creates a power imbalance that puts women or anyone in a position of fear, isolation or total dependence, I reject it. If my past content contributed to that, I am so genuinely sorry." Said Bernadine Bluntly, quoted in "Her Brand Was Tradwife. Now She’s Divorced. What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?" (NYT). When a tradwife influencer divorces, she explodes the very basis of her content business. But she still has a platform, one that she can jump from into a new world of content.... Bluntly set up her phone on a tripod, flipped her hair twice and filmed two videos using TikTok’s built-in teleprompter feature. Both were warnings: against husbands who demand secrecy in marriage, and against communities that uphold an image of family values over women’s and children’s lives.... “I’ve been there, I’ve done that, I’ve got the T-shirt, the restrainin

First report: Bernadine Bluntly’s Brand Was Tradwife. Then She Got Divorced. — nytimes.com, 2d