Hannah Neeleman, the leader of Ballerina Farm, made headlines last week after it emerged that she was a co-manager of a sprawling Utah farm and mother of a growing Mormon household.
The social media influencer and mother of eight was recently called” the queen of the” trad wives,” according to a Sunday Times Magazine article, which sparked a heated online debate. The great deal, however, was whether Hannah would make a great model for the contemporary housewife movement or whether the corporate media would treat women differently if they decided to reject the lies that modern feminism sold.
Empowerment Or Oppression?
It’s worth investigating how the Neelemans ‘ thousands of social media followers can reconcile their five-figure cast iron range with their virtual domestic, home picture. The U.S.-based senior functions writer who visited the Neelemans ‘ 328-acre home to write a breath element was much more interested in telling a different story.
Author Megan Agnew criticized their marriage, family dimensions, and decision to focus their lives on their children rather than the striking contrast between the rich Jet Blue history and evidently down-to-earth lifestyle of the Neelemans.
Is this a powerful new way to be a woman, or is it a blow to sexism? the question is in the article’s title.
Shortly into the post, Agnew queried whether the 2023 Mrs. American’s affection for pomp is” the greatest work of independence, Neeleman doing what she wanted, or the ultimate show of tyranny, her delicate body encased in spiky glitter”?
Daniel’s setup with Hannah was even attempted by her as a plot device thanks to a not-so-coincidental airplane seat change he received while pulling some cords at Jet Blue. In fact, Agnew was the one who had a direct dream about asking her interviews about their unconventional birth control.
Agnew even had the courage to state that she and Hannah were happy to leave Juilliard School in New York for her father’s outside job, launch a home, and eventually relocate to the Utah countryside.
” I look out at the vastness and do n’t totally agree. Daniel wanted to live in the great western wilds, so they did, he wanted to farm, so they do, he likes date nights once a week, so they go ( they have a babysitter on those evenings ), he did n’t want nannies in the house, so there are n’t any”, Agnew complained.
By the time the article is finished, readers have the impression Hannah is being defrauded by her father, who has fabricated her entire life into making grilled cheddar sourdough sandwiches from damage in a lovely farmhouse kitchen.
Agnew’s concluding statement adds to the idea that Hannah was deceived into sacrificing her sequined show outfits for her eight children’s prima ballerina careers.
Agnew’s meeting sparked a slew of corporate media articles questioning whether Hannah was oppressed because she only received an epidural for one of her eight frequently unmedicated births and gave up” the only place Neeleman wanted to convert into a dance theater” but that her children could attend a designated preschool area.
Agnew, clearly imbued by the attention given to her original viral profile, penned a follow-up piece acknowledging criticism that” I, a childless, unmarried woman, did n’t understand that this is the reality of having eight children, all home-schooled, and with no childcare”. But her study that” the trad existence makes people feel threatened by one another’s options” was too little, too late.
Living The Dream
In a voiceover of her morning routine, Hannah set the record straight in this week’s Instagram post.
” We thought the interview went really well, very similar to the dozens of interviews we had done in recent memory”, Hannah explained. ” We were taken back, however, when we saw the printed article, which shocked us and shocked the world by being an attack on our family and my marriage, portraying me as oppressed with my husband being the culprit”.
But Hannah said Agnew’s ultimate framing” could n’t be further from the truth”.
” Nothing we said in the interview implied this conclusion, which leads me to believe the angle taken was predetermined”, Hannah added.
It’s surprising that the same group of corporate media purports to smear Christians, glorify women who regret becoming mothers, and pretend that voters are stupid enough to believe lies about the nation’s problems like the border invasion and inflation have twisted yet another story to fit their agenda.
The press has repeatedly demonstrated that they despise happily married mothers like Hannah because of how much of her fulfillment she finds in stark opposition to the leftist ideology they support.
Hannah and her husband told Agnew that they genuinely value” see the joy of having children” and” the sanctity of life” rather than yelling about abortion. They have invested their entire lives in creating family businesses and routines that involve and help their children rather than absolving them of their children’s existence.
The Neelemans are not the result of a creepy Stockholm syndrome effort to woo” trad wife” users on social media. They are loving spouses who oppose divorce, including that of Daniel’s parents, because of the pain it brings to families.
As Hannah explained in her Instagram statement, she and Daniel are” co-parents, co-CEOs, co-diaper changers, kitchen cleaners, and decision makers”.
” We are one, and I love him more today than I did 13 years ago”, Hannah said.
Record-breaking swaths of Americans have lost faith in corporate media , to report accurately. The Neelemans should have long ago joined those ranks, especially because they have a way of surviving off of a countercultural life. If they know what’s best for them, they will join those ranks now.
The Neelemans already appear resolute and more determined than ever to maintain their focus on” God and family,” despite the media’s best efforts to demonize them.
” We have many dreams still to accomplish. We are n’t done having babies. We are looking forward to the opening of our new farm store, and I’m eager to see what the rest of it holds in store. But for now, I’m doing what I love most: being a mother, wife, a businesswoman, a farmer, a lover of children”, Hannah concluded.
The Federalist staff writer and host of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jordan Boyd. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordanian completed her political science major at Baylor University and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
