The question is not an internet troll. It is an observation. Traditional femininity is not a costume nor a cage. So, why do feminists act like it is? They aren’t feminine! It is the visible beauty of being female: a body built for a different kind of strength, a face and form that display youth and fertility, a temperament that can make a house feel like a refuge, a voice that soothes the children, a willingness to receive care from a good husband and to give care in return. That package is incompatible with the feminism that spread around the world like a fierce cancer. Traditionalism is anti-feminist because later feminism defined itself against those very goods. A woman who wants to stay home, look very pretty, cook delicious food, clean everyday, raise children, and be protected by an honest husband is not “empowering” under the current rules. This woman is the problem the feminist ideology has spent sixty years trying to beat out of existence. First-wave feminism, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1920, fought for legal personhood: property, contracts, the vote. Even then it was not the will of most women. A large, organized, mostly female anti-suffrage movement existed…