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Along with her late husband, Kirk has routinely prescribed that women forgo college degrees and careers — even though she has both — so they can fully commit to being submissive housewives.

Maggie is the best-case version of the submissive wife fantasy, a nice lady with a fancy house who wants to be thought well of and refers to her son’s victim as “that poor girl.”

Social media’s entire “tradwife” genre is about professional content creators pretending to be submissive housewives to sell advertising.

He’s a dogmatic submissive, an inner tension illustrated by Penn to marvelous effect when Lockjaw shows up at Perfidia’s door with flowers and, when she doesn’t answer, returns with a battering ram.

If more men stopped wallowing in fantasies of capturing submissive tradwives and learned to just appreciate women as full human beings, that would be great not just for those guys, but also for society.