When Privilege Preaches at Working Women
It’s always amusing when women sitting on donor money, spouse income, or inherited security lecture working women about “relying on government instead of husbands.”
It’s a worldview that only survives inside gated bubbles.
Try paying rent in California, raising kids, covering healthcare, student loans, groceries, and inflation on any single income — husband or not — and then come talk to the rest of us.
Modern women aren’t rejecting husbands — we’re rejecting dependence.
Most of us didn’t have trust funds, connections, or a husband with a lobbyist salary.
We had:
• rent due
• careers to build
• mouths to feed
• no fallback
That’s not rebellion; that’s survival economics.
So when influencer-wives with insulated lifestyles tell women to choose dependence over competence, it lands flat.
Not because women “hate men,” but because women have seen what happens when stability is outsourced to someone else’s paycheck.
The loudest anti-independence voices are always the ones who never had to live without it.
They mistake their privilege for morality, then sell it as universal truth.
Independence isn’t the enemy of family — it’s insurance against bad ones.
Women aren’t choosing the government over men.
We just discovered we function better than the people lecturing us about it.
Some of us didn’t marry stability — we built it.
That’s the part they can’t handle.
