I became aware of Patriarchy Hannah a few days ago. She was a Trad Wife influencer on X, who went by the handle of @harmonizedgrace. Her bio on X reads: Christian. Wife of @whatsgooditsT. Nap apologist. Homeschool mom. Known Party Pooper. Feminists say I'm problematic.

"Hannah" has over 25K followers. She claimed to be a mother to 14 children, some of whom were adopted, as well as a traditionally submissive wife to a husband named "Tony." Yet she still found time to develop an influencer account on X and co-host podcasts with trad men that were not her husband. And a lot of Christian women on X ate it up. It seems some of them even sent her gifts for her children. She seemed the ideal trad wife, someone to aspire to, and proof that a submissive marriage could work and work well.

The problem is, none of it was true. Patriarchy Hannah appears to be an unmarried, unemployed woman—possibly with a criminal record--living with her parents. She piled lies upon lies to create her trad wife persona, and eventually they were uncovered. If you want to see the ins and outs of how her lies were exposed, here’s the main thread.

I don’t want to delve into what she preached to her followers but I do want to point out how shocked many women are that she went to these lengths to lie about who and what she was. Many women appear to be in disbelief, their faith in her shattered. These are women whose entire lives revolve around ‘faith’: faith in a loving god, faith in a loving husband, faith in a system that (falsely) promises that--if you just give up all personal autonomy and put your life completely into a man’s hands—your obedience will be rewarded.

Unfortunately, the self-enforced naivete of these trad wife hopefuls has not turned out to work in their favor this time. They were, in essence, scammed. Of course, on the whole, this was a relatively harmless scam; some women are out a few dollars, others out a friendship. “Hannah” herself appears to have been in it for the dopamine: her latest message, and apology to her followers, reads: I never intended for this account to become as big as it did, and once things started snowballing, I enjoyed the relationships I'd built and didn't know how to put an end to it.

I know that most, if not all, of women on Ovarit understand that the trad wife lifestyle is a key tenet of patriarchy, which itself is a scam of a proportion so large that it changed the course of human history and looks to be the potential downfall of the human race altogether. But there are still women out there that choose naivete, that choose to have faith in a system that has shown itself again and again and again that you will be thrown to the wolves if you do not comply. Hell, even if you do, you are ground meat to this system. We all are. And yet these women are still choosing to believe that someone or something is coming to save them. They choose the illusion. But at least this time, the illusion failed them.

Will this be the start of a personal liberation for some of these women? Or will those who believe in the trad wife life simply double down, blame it on a failure to follow christ “properly,” and pretend the whole thing never happened?