"Trad" Lives

“They talked about nuclear families the same way they talked about the nuclear bomb. It was a destructive, sexist, militaristic, heteronormative force designed to ruin the world. Literally, they would say for emphasis at the end of every statement they made that could not possibly work in any literal sense. Instead, they argued bravely that old-school femininity was a scourge. Any woman who chose to stay in the home instead of working in the world was complicit. Any woman who identified as a homemaker was both a victim and a perpetrator”. – Yesteryear

In the 1950s and 60s, a popular TV show, “Leave it to Beaver”, followed the lives of the Cleaver family, Ward and June, with their two sons, Wally and Theodore.