You know you’d rather be mindlessly scrolling through TikTok instead of mindlessly billing hours. Saturday Night Live knows it too, and tackled TikTok and its many influencers in its latest parody sketch.
Women lawyers may find the video particularly entertaining at around the 2:53 mark, when a tradwife — i.e., a woman who believes in traditional gender roles and marriages and is focused on subservient homemaking and childrearing — makes an appearance. Her law degree from an apparent past life makes an appearance too, but not necessarily in the way you’d expect.
“As a 22-year-old mother of 10, I like to do everything by hand,” the tradwife says. “Today, my kids wanted to color, but we were all out of paper. So I mashed up my law degree to make more paper for my kids.”
Friends, as frustrating as it can sometimes be as a full-time lawyer and a full-time mother, please don’t mash up your law degrees. It’s much easier to order a fresh ream of coloring paper on Amazon — not to mention the fact that you don’t even need a rolling pin to do it.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on X/Twitter and Threads or connect with her on LinkedIn.
