(Portrait of Amoryn, by her father. This makes me love my little family even more.)
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I heard a new label for myself today. That label is "digital mom". It made me feel like I should go out & get myself chromed like C-3PO, but they're actually referring to the fact that I use the intarweb to connect with people. And stuff.
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It was a clip of the Today show, and I found it painful to watch. I watched it because one of the bloggers I read was in it, & she's 6 months pregnant, so I totally wanted to look at her belly. (She's normally razor thin.) Her belly looks great, it was the discussion that was painful.
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The clip was, well, awkward. I'm not sure what they were trying to accomplish - make us moms feel included and important because we have a new label? - but meh. The only difference between my digital life now & pre-mom is that I have pictures of an adorable toddler to post. If you move us back to a pre-computer age, I guess I'd be the woman with the roll of photos in her handbag, showing them to the butcher and tha mailman. If you move us back even further, I guess I'd be making cave paintings of pigtails.
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It's tricky being a mom these days - and while I suspect it's always been tricky to be a mom, it seems like now there's a MILLION labels that are (or can be) applied. Are you a Working Mom? Are you a SAHM? (Stay at Home Mom) A WAHM? (Work At Home Mom) A soccer mom? (Or soccer stepmom...) A MILF? (Mother I'd like to F---, and don't even get me started on that. Oop, too late.)
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As for MILFs - what gives anyone the right to randomly PRONOUNCE thier judgement of any woman? Sure, we all judge. It's human nature. But unless it's nice, keep it in your head*. But why is it okay (to the point of being a very common term) to state, out very LOUD, whether or not you deem them f---able? Why is it okay (at least, judging by most advertisements) for the dads (if they're present) to be overweight, or balding, or clueless, or dressed like a slob, but the moms are universally sparkling examples of dental hygiene, perfectly coiffed, and oozing synthetic fantastic? Why should we rate anyone like a chunk of meat? And are they trying to imply that most mothers are not appealing, so to be a MILF is an extraordinary & good thing? What happened to the appeal of fertility?
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Maybe life would be easier if we were all graded annually, and then we just worried about staying in our class. There'd be the AAA+ prime, which would be, like, Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt. Then it would scale down to I don't know, F- or something, and there would be divisions across all the media. You could pick up a C+ magazine (as a C+), and know that you're not going to be looking at a woman (and subliminally, expected to look LIKE the woman) who has been through several plastic surgeries & spends 26 hours a week with a personal trainer. And has been carefully airbrushed.
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The ratings might not be such a good idea, I don't think the class system panned out that well in Britain or India. Although maybe that depends on whether you're talking to the Brahmins or the chimneysweeps.
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At any rate. It aggravates me that there's all these labels. I don't fit in a box, please don't stick labels on me. My ire does seem to subside as I log more time (and more daily sleep) as a mom, but it still flares up. (You may have noticed, no?) All the labels start to chafe after a while, and while I'm usually to busy to get very introspective about it all, things like the trumped up label "digital mom" really aggravate me.
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And think of the dads! The poor dads, all mis- & under-represented - even the Today Show did it. They closed the segment by noting that the Digital Dads have't been ignored, just log on to the website to read! Ha. Is that not ignoring them? So for the dads, (and the Rage Against The Machine fans), I'd like you to watch this video.
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YouTube Stay-At-Hame-Dad by Jon Lajoie
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(I think my favorite line is maybe "I don't do drugs... I get high on baby hugs.")
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*MILF does not count as a nice thing to say. "Her hair looks good." or "You are amazing: you look clean & put together & you are attending a baby & me yoga class with 5 month old twins. Wow."
I heard a new label for myself today. That label is "digital mom". It made me feel like I should go out & get myself chromed like C-3PO, but they're actually referring to the fact that I use the intarweb to connect with people. And stuff.
.
It was a clip of the Today show, and I found it painful to watch. I watched it because one of the bloggers I read was in it, & she's 6 months pregnant, so I totally wanted to look at her belly. (She's normally razor thin.) Her belly looks great, it was the discussion that was painful.
.
The clip was, well, awkward. I'm not sure what they were trying to accomplish - make us moms feel included and important because we have a new label? - but meh. The only difference between my digital life now & pre-mom is that I have pictures of an adorable toddler to post. If you move us back to a pre-computer age, I guess I'd be the woman with the roll of photos in her handbag, showing them to the butcher and tha mailman. If you move us back even further, I guess I'd be making cave paintings of pigtails.
.
It's tricky being a mom these days - and while I suspect it's always been tricky to be a mom, it seems like now there's a MILLION labels that are (or can be) applied. Are you a Working Mom? Are you a SAHM? (Stay at Home Mom) A WAHM? (Work At Home Mom) A soccer mom? (Or soccer stepmom...) A MILF? (Mother I'd like to F---, and don't even get me started on that. Oop, too late.)
.
As for MILFs - what gives anyone the right to randomly PRONOUNCE thier judgement of any woman? Sure, we all judge. It's human nature. But unless it's nice, keep it in your head*. But why is it okay (to the point of being a very common term) to state, out very LOUD, whether or not you deem them f---able? Why is it okay (at least, judging by most advertisements) for the dads (if they're present) to be overweight, or balding, or clueless, or dressed like a slob, but the moms are universally sparkling examples of dental hygiene, perfectly coiffed, and oozing synthetic fantastic? Why should we rate anyone like a chunk of meat? And are they trying to imply that most mothers are not appealing, so to be a MILF is an extraordinary & good thing? What happened to the appeal of fertility?
.
Maybe life would be easier if we were all graded annually, and then we just worried about staying in our class. There'd be the AAA+ prime, which would be, like, Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt. Then it would scale down to I don't know, F- or something, and there would be divisions across all the media. You could pick up a C+ magazine (as a C+), and know that you're not going to be looking at a woman (and subliminally, expected to look LIKE the woman) who has been through several plastic surgeries & spends 26 hours a week with a personal trainer. And has been carefully airbrushed.
.
The ratings might not be such a good idea, I don't think the class system panned out that well in Britain or India. Although maybe that depends on whether you're talking to the Brahmins or the chimneysweeps.
.
At any rate. It aggravates me that there's all these labels. I don't fit in a box, please don't stick labels on me. My ire does seem to subside as I log more time (and more daily sleep) as a mom, but it still flares up. (You may have noticed, no?) All the labels start to chafe after a while, and while I'm usually to busy to get very introspective about it all, things like the trumped up label "digital mom" really aggravate me.
.
And think of the dads! The poor dads, all mis- & under-represented - even the Today Show did it. They closed the segment by noting that the Digital Dads have't been ignored, just log on to the website to read! Ha. Is that not ignoring them? So for the dads, (and the Rage Against The Machine fans), I'd like you to watch this video.
.
YouTube Stay-At-Hame-Dad by Jon Lajoie
.
(I think my favorite line is maybe "I don't do drugs... I get high on baby hugs.")
.
.
*MILF does not count as a nice thing to say. "Her hair looks good." or "You are amazing: you look clean & put together & you are attending a baby & me yoga class with 5 month old twins. Wow."
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