The Baron's Mistress by Madame Z

Madame Z delves into the "trad wife" archetype and more in her latest guest article.

Copyright Madame Z 2025

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Great men loathe trad wives

Most women don’t write; they are written about. Their very life is an about-itself; inspiring men as an incarnating Muse.

It is enough for us to observe.

Women unconsciously live in a manner that to others appears desirable to being discussed, portrayed, displayed; in short, objectified. Man sees a woman’s life as ‘book-worthy’; as he recognizes trivial phenomena of speech and manners as ‘meme-worthy’ in the iconographic economy of digital media.

Usually, women are terrible novelists, for they cannot see the narrative potential of their own life and successfully project it onto others. They may excel as philosophers and critics, or even poets, where in the latter their intuitive and lunar faculty finds suitable expression—but they cannot effectively communicate the ‘about’ in themselves men love to objectify.

Essentially, Woman exists, and is communicated to us, by men. The light of the sun is reflected by the moon and makes the latter known to us.

Woman is the Object of Art; she inspires it in man, and is not to be the artist herself, for she cannot make object of Man’s solar genius. A man cannot make art when no object shall reflect his brilliance on her surface for the pleasure of all.

A woman is beautiful, but her beauty only shines by the light imparted by the masculine creative spirit. A woman, being the reflecting surface, under the light, cannot make the man reflect her own dark mysteries. A man shines, he seldom reflects what She means, if anything.

The fact that man is the measure of order, the first principle, and woman occurs secondly, proceeding from the first as the moon made known by the solar light, is simply the natural course of things—a simple truth Simone de Beauvoir could not allow herself to accept due to a stubborn adherence to a secular interpretation of existence. For woman is truly the second sex.

However, this is not a justification for her submission or subjugation to man in a moralistic, mundane, and political sense. She is second as a spiritual emanation, and we must never confuse meaning on one plane with manifestation on another. Christian morality has misinterpreted the secondary nature of woman as a license to slavery, and enforced an ethics of sexual repression, resentment, and cruelty. While polytheistic societies recognized a natural order based on fertility—a rightful place based on biological functions—women were not devalued in that function. While they performed the traditional role of wife and mother, this was observed as simply natural and not viewed as evil, sinful, or as ‘deviating’ from some idyllic ‘original state’ of purity.

“In fact, there were as many different male and female roles as there were gods and goddesses, each a unique and necessary part of the cosmos.”

[Madame Z, Kali Loves us All]

The unilateral subjugation of woman is anathema to an authentic expression of her objective essence bound in the about-itself, as explained:

“One fact stands out: the far-right concept of the ‘trad-wife’ is actually not traditional! The popular image of a meek peasant woman standing barefoot in a sunlit field, tending to the cows and her numerous children, or hanging laundry, is not representative of various roles women played in historical civilizations. For example, Viking societies had shield-maidens (incarnations of the mythic Valkyrie), while most pagan cultures included priestesses and sorceresses (seidr, seeress, oracle) whose femininity was certainly not the soft and nurturing embrace of the ‘earth mother’.” [ibid]

Only the simpleton wants a slave! Real men—heroic men—want Woman as she exists in the world of Tradition. Ask yourself, why is it that Julius Evola, the greatest proponent of Traditionalism, never married, but only had an affair with a woman fifteen years his senior, a Satanic sorceress and sex-magic practitioner named Maria de Naglowska?

Most men won’t admit it, but what they secretly-desire is a woman who thinks like a man.

This does not mean a lack of feminine grace, this simply means a woman attuned to her own divinity, a willpower or agency that is uniquely her own, just as man has his own potential.

As D. H. Lawrence wrote in The Rainbow, about the unconventional Ursula Brangwen: “Her everyday self was just the same. She merely had another, stronger self that knew the darkness.”

For those familiar with mythology, feminine power is represented in figures such as Athena, Artemis, Brunhilde, and Rhiannon. Historically, we may name Boudica or Veleda as examples of traditionally-empowered women. We are speaking of a woman who may or may not fulfil the duties of wife and mother, but with the insight, the willingness, the consciousness of a goddess informed with supreme wisdom and driven by an unshakeable sense of purpose.

The meek, uneducated, and unambitious ‘farmwife’ (her husband is the same, for women are only as great as their men allow them to be) has none of these qualities. The greatest error of the ‘traditional catholic’ movement is taking the humble peasant as measure of human greatness. The Third Reich, on the other hand, recognized the usefulness and necessity of a working Volk, but also understood that the nation must be guided by higher powers, by Aryan aristocracy aiming to take us to the stars.

Why is it that the Third Reich allowed women many of the privileges granted in ‘liberal’ societies? Because they knew that this would be eugenic. Let the basic Volk work and procreate, but let brilliant minds give them a vision to work towards. Women like Magda Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, Maria Orsic, Savitri Devi, and Hannah Reitsch are just as important in National Socialism as the humble Hausfrau.

We conclude this essay with an attack against a particular subset of contemporary ‘new-right’ discourse characterized by explicitly misogynistic sentiment fuelling a Titanic masculine will, whose undercurrent is a Priapic sexuality that only wishes to satiate lust.

Certain factions—generally identifying themselves by terms such as ‘redpill’ and ‘manosphere’—employ a socio-sexual hierarchy to justify unbridled sexual indulgence as the ultimate expression of an ‘alpha-male’ personality. They blame liberalism and feminism for the corruption of woman, and believe that only by tyrannically imposing crude male strength can women be ‘put back’ in their rightful place as mindless submissive sex slaves. It is a cartoonish image of virility akin to Conan the Barbarian or Gor, with a splash of Nietzschean pathos. In other words, it is a hot-blooded apologia for animal urges, reducing human beings to little more than a procreating species among others, amenable to biological drives, hormonal fluctuation—determined, fatal, inevitably bound. Already, we see that these men have given up, have relinquished any Hyperborean notion of heroism. Any man who cannot control his desires is no longer a true man.

It must be understood that the corruption of women—sexual liberation—is echoed in the Priapic excesses of the male libertine or rake. Women strayed because men had already degenerated. Men only have themselves to blame for what women reflect back to them.

There is also a more sinister strain coursing through the political right; a perversion only possible by exploiting a managerial organization of labor. When wealth and power are synonymous with ‘capital’ achieved within a particular hierarchy of bureaucratic elitism, we see the rise of a masculinity ‘coded’ in yuppie narcissism.

Adderall-fueled ‘jobstacking’ enterprises are run by degenerate autists who wish they were Jeffrey Epstein, for that is precisely the sort of untouchable peak of narcissistic hedonism they seek to achieve. The alt-right is obsessed with pedophiles because pedophiles are the ruling elite, and they want to be invited to the party. They wish they could set themselves above the law; applying Nietzschean will-to-power with Machiavellian abandon.

Whether we are dealing with alpha-male pseudo-barbarians or white-collar rapists, the problem lies with corrupt men and the loss of Tradition.

Fix yourself, before you tell boys how to treat women.