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Tradcon is an abbreviation for "traditional conservative[tiw]", but colloquially has not much to do with that, and is mainly a pejorative for modern social conservatism. It describes those people who (in the interpersonal realm) want a return to chivalry[wp] (man proves himself to and protects the woman), traditional gender roles, religion, and the nuclear family (monogamy).

Due to tradcon being a slur, virtually no one self-identifies as such, however tradcons are easy to identify by this definition. Blackpillers largely overlap with tradcon values and practices.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Online tradcons often use the pejorative "SJW" to refer to ideological enemies.

Blackpillers and other internet tradconism

Alleged hypocrisy

Some outside observers have noticed a discrepancy between movements in the manosphere towards traditional values, and the values of the space they populate, for example Angela Nagle[tiw]:

Quote: «Can "traditional ideas about gender" really be bursting forth from an Internet culture that also features gender-bending pornography, discussions about bisexual curiosity, and a male My Little Pony[wp] fandom? What's more, can a retreat from the traditional authority of the nuclear family into an extended adolescence of videogames, porn, and pranks really be described as patriarchal?»[7]

Traditional monogamy and gender roles as "benefiting incels"

The general narrative from blackpillers is that the sexual revolution[wp] worsened inceldom, there was virtually no inceldom in patriarchal monogamous countries,[8] and that by returning to patriarchy,[9] and socially encouraged/enforced monogamy, men and women will naturally want to come together and establish stable sexual relationships.

Marriage data from the 19th century US demonstrates that there have always been a large amount of unmarried younger men, aged 25-34, in that country at least, many/most of whom were presumably incel.[10]

The narrative that traditional gender roles lead to less inceldom has strongly been criticized. While the sexual revolution may have exacerbated inceldom, it does not logically follow that we can simply dial back the clock to previous gender roles. They argue that technology, rather than cultural changes in themselves, led to the sexual revolution. Technological innovation is impossible to roll back on a civilizational scale (short of societal collapse or severe decline).

Some also argue the blackpill has an incorrect thesis that more rigid gender roles would be something anyone would even want to follow along with at all, especially in modernized societies where they are less necessary for ensuring immediate survival. In fact, according to research on global rates of sexual satisfaction, there seems to be no significant correlation between how rigid gender roles are and how sexually dissatisfied a modern country is.[11]

Tradcon women

Tradcon women, often accused of being tradthots, are notable for feeling sympathetic toward incels. Many incels, however, see this as dishonest attempt at attention whoring. Some incels also claim that genuine tradcon women are even more hypergamous than feminists as they claim the tradcon women are exclusively looking for betabuxxers. There is some evidence for this assertion.[12] In fact, the wageslave role of men is so important to tradcon women, many men who like traditional work still feel constrained by this desire of tradcon women. Tradcon women were often bullied in their younger years, leading to them seeking out betabuxxers much earlier in their adult life. They see incels as overlooked betabuxxers, or, in other words, people who would be great at wageslaving for them while they sit on their ass, drink tea, and rant about feminism.

MRA criticism of tradcons

Proponents of traditional conservatism see their values' past success as indicators of future success, but critics of traditional conservatism see tradcon values as gynocentric, misandrist, and/or archaic. For example, some tradcons believe it is a men's duty to die in a war while not being entitled to a companion if he returns unscathed.

Tradcon similarity to feminism

Tradcons deal with criticism by shaming low-status men, which bears striking resemblance to modern feminists. Just like feminists, they aim their insults almost exclusively at weak men and/or incels. Tradcons will insult any weak or unsuccessful man as a "beta". And they will especially ridicule a type of incel called a, "marcel".

Tradcons insult male marcels for being unable to sexually satisfy their wives, resulting in infidelity (as "cucks[13]) alluding a cuckoldry where the man is so weak that he admits her part-time, monogamous escort the freedom to see other men. Traditional men tend to despise men who admit this freedom fearing once such behavior becomes normal, it would make it harder to mateguard their woman. Tradcons may also use the words "cuck" and "beta" to insult incels who white knight or use other displays of male feminism in order to ascend.

A small but growing number of MGTOWs and MRAs have been complaining that their spaces have been overrun by trad-cons like Janet Bloomfield[wp][14] or "enabling" tradcons, like Karen Straughan does (allegedly),[15][16] and that trad-cons are worse than feminists (which they also dislike) because they think trad-cons generally believe that men should exchange work for sex, and other "anti-male" gender roles that put men in a slave-like position.

Notable Accusations of tradcons being white knights

Andrew DiKaiomata from Paul Elam's A Voice for Men wrote a lengthy post about how he thought tradcons were white knights, saying

Quote: «This last one is probably the biggest point to show how feminism overlaps with traditional conservatism. It screams both at the same time. "Save the women!", "Fight for women!".» - Andrew DiKaiomata[17]

Paul Elam on tradcons

Prominent Republican-leaning MRA Paul Elam has also stated his opposition to trad-cons, despite hiring some radical trad-cons for his site. His hiring of trad-cons like Janet Bloomfield drawing him criticism from aforementioned MGTOWs and MRAs.

AVFM on tradcons

On polyamory/cucks/etc:

Quote: «In the conservative world, there are numerous harmful stereotypes floating about when it comes to sex. For starters, all men are not seen to be potential rapists but potential adulterers.» - Hestia, via A Voice for Men[18]

On stay at home wives:

Quote: «In the conservative world, the burden of work takes an even more troubling turn as woman are taught they have a right to stay home with their children and if their husband cannot afford to provide the standard of living that makes this necessary, then he is out of God's will, a sinner, or backslidden. When the talk turns to Titus 2 or other other verses used to support this women’s right, there is not an admonishment to wives to be frugal, to be industrious and start a home business, a garden for cooking and canning, or so forth, just a strict requirement for men without a rule of cooperation on the part of women. Staying at home is simply her right, with no responsibility to aid the burden of breadwinning.» - Hestia, via A Voice for Men[19]

Other criticism of tradcons

Tradconism is cope

The claim that a return to traditional values can solve the problem of inceldom for most men is by some seen as a coping mechanism[wp] because there has always been a large underclass of males who have not reproduced.[20] There are similar trends in modern times, though the majority of men in Western societies become some sort of father, biological or step.[21]

Though it is argued that many of these men may at risk for cuckoldry, with rates varying drastically by social class, race and research methodology.[22] These facts prove that even the wealthiest man is still at (low) risk for being cucked. DNA studies have given a clearer view of the dating market, now and in the past.[23]

Some would argue that hyperfocusing on a low risk of explicit cuckoldry is indicative of paranoia or excessive risk aversion, but high divorce rates and high female infidelity rates (15-50% depending on sample)[24] also present a challenge to those advocating for committed, monogamous relationships. Indeed, allegations of naivete (in the terms of having a romantic view of how sexually loyal and chaste people were in the past) are a common critique of those who advocate traditional gender roles and monogamy. Their opponents argue that no one is (or has ever been) safe, there is no 100% guarantee of relationship security.

Tradcons would argue this frequent lack of fidelity in relationships is the result of modern degeneracy, rather than being indicative of a natural human aversion towards monogamy, or instead that strictly enforced tradcon norms are required to suppress a natural human tendency (especially an alleged innate female tendency, in the case of blackpilled tradcons) towards sexual profligacy.

It is also argued by opponents of tradcons that returning to the past is pointless because the past did not actually have a better dating market for most men than times now. Being a male whom does not reproduce is perfectly normal.[25] This is partially due to men of the pre-modern era being violently killed or perishing to disease before they could even reach the age when they would be expected to marry however. Though it is indeed likely that women's mate choice, the preferences of women's parents for resourceful men, and dominant, high status men hoarding wealth and passing wealth on to first born/early born sons, leaving later sons with nothing, plus harsh intrasexual male competition in the form of polygyny, also played very large roles in mediating men's inceldom in the past.

Tradcons, critics suggest, cannot perceive this due to suffering from selection bias due to their fathers, grandfathers, and or male ancestors in general, being wealthier or higher status than many other men of that era who failed to reproduce due to low status. A kind of regression toward the mean. Thus the tradcons believe if they were born in that time, they would be wealthier and or higher income than most other men as well. The reality is that most super-low-status men in said traditional societies still ended up incel.

A counter argument to this is that while sex used to be very unevenly distributed in the barbaric human past, it was more evenly distributed in certain societies of the past, particularly in the 18th century to the mid 20th century with strongly enforced monogamy. Most tradcons prefer returning to this state (reverting the sexual revolution) rather than underdeveloped, polygynous societies.

References

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