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About Anarchism and Diamond Rings
A Criticism of the Tradwife Trend in Europe
At some point, we let our dreams slip away, trading them in for diamond rings — exactly as they’re sold to us on Instagram reels, in TV ads, in every idealised image of happiness. We forgot who we were, what we once longed for, all to live out a script handed to us, telling us what we should desire, who we’re supposed to be.
Meanwhile, the world teeters on the edge… and capitalism keeps spinning, dancing over the cracks. Anarchist tattoos and diamond rings in the same hand, a blatant paradox. And exhausted feminists, after years of struggle, now find themselves longing for nothing more than the traditional life of the twentieth century. After enduring triple shifts and careers marked by abuse from men in power, the idea of submitting to just one man starts to feel almost tolerable.
Artificial intelligence sweeps through the markets, displacing skilled labour and making it redundant. Europe transforms, its demographics shift, birth rates plummet, and the West itself seems to be unravelling. Yet what do the ads continue to sell us? The dream of a diamond ring, a neatly packaged vision of traditional life, “feminine energy” revived from the ashes, as if the answer were a return to age-old roles. Once again, we find the man cast as the “provider,” while the woman is…
