A Homemaker's Manifesto | Isa Ryan | Substack

"Women's Day" is actually Marxist

And all human history is, in fact, already women's history

Mar 9 • Isa Ryan

Children need to learn to do hard things, too

In an age of gentle parenting, let us consider the importance of making children do things they might not necessarily want to do

Feb 26 • Isa Ryan

Men have mental loads, too

As women loudly name "invisible labor," men are quietly toiling at theirs

Feb 19 • Isa Ryan

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Voice Notes: ICE protests and dopamine addiction

The real psy op behind the insanity

Feb 10 • Isa Ryan

You realize the "trad wives" are serious, right?

The critics of the trad wife movement unwittingly prove why it exists

Feb 9 • Isa Ryan

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Let him be a man

Jul 12, 2023 • Isa Ryan

Sometimes the mess can't, in fact, wait

Jan 30, 2025 • Isa Ryan

I didn’t have a homemaker for a mother

Aug 19, 2025 • Isa Ryan

The great “women’s rights” delusion

Nov 14, 2024 • Isa Ryan

Classical Christian femininity + healing from toxic postmodern feminism

"Meninists" can be just as bad as feminists

Blaming an entire sex for the ills of the world is intellectually dishonest

Feb 5 • Isa Ryan

What traditional women need to understand about emotions

I am determined to support women who are healing from the wounds of the world

Feb 2 • Isa Ryan

Let him be a man

Sometimes, contentment in femininity is simply making peace with masculinity

Jan 29 • Isa Ryan

Feminism ≠ the entire female sex

Debunking the presumption that feminism represents all women

Jan 26 • Isa Ryan

The raw, honest truth about "good homemakers"

And why you need to stop telling yourself you're a "bad" one

Jan 15 • Isa Ryan

Vintage Style Without Vintage Values Is Just A Costume

Call me sentimental, but I’ve always had a soft spot for vintage fashion.

Published on Evie Magazine • Jan 3

Yes, women create "holiday magic"...and so do men

Responding to the navel-gazing holiday meme that "holiday magic would disappear without women"

Dec 29, 2025 • Isa Ryan

No, I don't think I'm "better than you"

I think traditional Christian values are better for women

Dec 26, 2025 • Isa Ryan

Things the first wave feminists were right about...

...that feminists don't seem to care about anymore

Dec 20, 2025 • Isa Ryan

The "pick me" fallacy

And why anyone who uses it is automatically forfeiting their logical thinking skills

Dec 10, 2025 • Isa Ryan

Men are not dogs

It's an insult to women to hold men to a low standard...and, it's a trauma-response

Dec 1, 2025 • Isa Ryan

Why self-care should matter to traditional women

The burnt-out, exhausted homemaker is a product of modernism

Nov 25, 2025 • Isa Ryan

Confessions of an anti-feminist essayist

Some personal thoughts about what it’s like upsetting people on the internet.

Nov 23, 2025 • Isa Ryan

Veterans of war and the women who love them

War is hell, and men walk right into it. Yet women are not spared its flames.

Nov 11, 2025 • Isa Ryan

The truth about homemaking in unprecedented times

You are not failing at upholding your deeply held values just because you’re struggling as a homemaker. We all struggle.

Oct 20, 2025 • Isa Ryan

A feminist-turned-housewife shares her story

Guest post from Elisabeth Stone from Of Home and Womanhood

Oct 16, 2025 • Isa Ryan and Elisabeth Stone

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