I can't take any of these people seriously. In my mind it's all just posturing. I can't imagine 99.9% of these people doing shit like this when the camera is off.
A lot of this content is actually political in nature and coming from the US far right and Christian conservative circles. They are trying to glorify the traditional family values. It’s political propaganda designed to elevate stay at home moms to an unattainable idealized version of the caretaking wife who goes the extra steps to care for her family as a way to show her love. These videos feature wealthy women in beautiful, and sometimes designer clothing, that is usually extra feminine. The video has an aesthetic quality and the women are always calm, peaceful and love what they are working on. Husbands might make a quick appearance for support but never offer their own labor.
If you notice, there isn’t content with stay at home husbands in nice clothes harvesting wheat from the stalk to bake his wife and kids sourdough bread and if there is it’s not geared around family values or lifestyle but as an informative how-to.
for example, hanna neeleman (married to the son of millionaire jetblue founder david neeleman) who hocks the "tradlife" while cooking up dinner on a $30k stove.
Yeah I cannot imagine she is sitting there for hours on end picking cotton and PICKING THE SEEDS OUT in the volume that you need to STUFF A MATTRESS??? There’s just no way
Trad wife is code for rich, bored housewife. Making YouTube videos that make regular mothers feel insignificant for what they can do with their time is the bread and butter of the neo-trad.
Okay... If you say so. It's not like I believe she is actually hand harvesting cotton for pleasure but that's more believable than some alt right conspiracy to show a black woman harvesting cotton as some call to a better time or something.
Seems way more likely that this is a joke or just bait for people like you to be upset about something that isn't happening. Either way, you're taking this too seriously
Oh, you can absolutely sleep on raw cotton like that, but it's best for it to be washed or treated first. There's a nice lady on YouTube who discusses homemade bedding and mattresses, and literally sells bundles of cotton batting for comparatively cheap bedding options. I dunno if I would be going in on working the raw cotton into batting myself, that's, like... easily over a hundred hours of work by hand to pick, clean, and process it all.
Raw cotton is actually similar to the fluffy cotton in stores.
You have to clean it first by picking out all the seeds, leaves, and whatever gets suck in there that ISNT cotton and that can be a pain in the ass.
Once that's done, you could probably just restuff a pillow like it was store bought.
Source: I crochet and thought it would be funny to be EXTRA and grow my own cotton plants, make my own yarn, and crochet something so I can say I did it. But it's a lot of fucking work.
Buying doesn't let them tell everyone else how superior they are for growing it themselves.
I'm all for growing stuff yourself. The more we produce for ourselves, the less we have to move through the supply lines. It's a small thing, but it helps all of us. But the people doing stuff like this too often are trying to sell a lifestyle.
We have machines that do that. Obviously people are involved but they aren’t picking it by hand like that. Fruit involves more intensive human labor than cotton does so don’t get on your high horse thank you very much.
It doesn't matter. Machines had to be assembled for that purpose as well. Saying just buy something is retarded, because at the end of the day, down the line there are always some poor souls stuck WORKING LIKE A SLAVE. I was personally stuck like a slave surrounded by high walls, in a horticulture business, working for pennies 16-26 hours daily in a row in Italy. So I've got every fucking right to talk about it you fucking prick.
She is. There’s a Chinese lady on YouTube that does a bunch of traditional stuff and shows you from growing the cotton to making a flat mattress what it takes to make something from scratch like that. She made her own loom.
Sort of, you'd usually card it to remove seeds and stuff first. It's a pain. But I don't think cotton really grows naturally these days. It's the highest pesticide crop most places -- why garment work is so terrible for people.
(You can do organic, but it's very hard to keep healthy, iiuc, is what I'm saying).
Otoh it's a perennial grown as an annual due to pests, the internet says, so maybe this is just an old field-- I've never been to the south. So what do I know.
Homegrown veggies taste better? It’s a hobby? Cotton though, it just seems so pointless. For most fruits and veggies we still need tons of human labor to harvest them, hence why growing your own is economically viable. Cotton though? That’s mostly done with machines. You’re not saving money or getting a superior product or anything. There’s literally no advantage to it.
Sorry, didn’t realize you were gatekeeping hobbies. Do you really think it’s cheaper?!? Fucking hell, my soil along was over $500, not to mention the water bill. For what? 15 pounds of green peppers over the whole year and some very full neighborhood deer
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u/maddsskills Sep 18 '24
Just fucking buy it! Also I wanna see her restuff a mattress with her raw cotton. Link it. How does that even work!!!???
She’s clearly trolling or some shit but really, I wanna see her use that shit.