Category: Fuck The Mommy Wars

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Guns for Ladies

Allison Hantschel

Oh CHRIST: Watts’ report focused on the NRA’s growing political radicalism, but the gender shift is leaving pink streaks that are also unlike anything in the group’s history. Few were the exhibits on the gun show floor that did not feature products catering to women. We are now well past the novelty of a pink AR-15 here, a sparkled pistol there. Today’s woman has holsters and targets of her own. In Indy, the Law Enforcement Targets booth had already sold out of its bestselling pink shooting target, sales of which benefit not the NRA’s “round-up” program, but breast cancer research … Continue reading Guns for Ladies

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My Husband Desires My Fertility

Allison Hantschel

I can't. I CAAAAAANNNNN'TTTTT: Perhaps I could have shared my own experience. You see, I don’t know what condom-sex feels like, but I can’t imagine it’s better than the au natural. I only know what it is like to have sex with my husband without any barriers between us. By God’s grace I have been blessed to experience what it is to have a man cherish me for all I am and relish in the joy of conceiving child after child with me, and who desires all of me, including my fertility, in a passionate way. My question to you, … Continue reading My Husband Desires My Fertility

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It’s Not About You

Allison Hantschel

This nails it, almost:  But what all these issues, no matter how gigantically separated an Esquire puff piece and a Tennessee mother’s jailing for meth may seem, reflect back at us: How, in this country, every barometer by which female worth is measured—from the superficial to the life-altering, the appreciative to the punitive—has long been calibrated to “dude,” whether or not those measurements are actually being taken by dudes. Men still run, or at bare minimum have shaped and codified the attitudes of, the churches, the courts, the universities, the police departments, the corporations that so freely determine women’s worth. As Beyoncé … Continue reading It’s Not About You

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Old Spice Just Hates People

Allison Hantschel

I honestly don’t know who in this story I feel worse for: Fellas, your greatest achievement in life is detaching yourself from your horrible hag of a mom! You can’t have a healthy relationship with her while living a normal adult life, like a person! You must escape her clutches, and take no notice of her dragging behind you, an old tight-permed biddy who just folds laundry and knits and hates your friends. Ladies, your child’s most significant relationship in life should be with you alone, and any part of growing up that threatens your ability to think of him … Continue reading Old Spice Just Hates People

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Guns for Ladies

Allison Hantschel

Oh CHRIST: Watts’ report focused on the NRA’s growing political radicalism, but the gender shift is leaving pink streaks that are also unlike anything in the group’s history. Few were the exhibits on the gun show floor that did not feature products catering to women. We are now well past the novelty of a pink AR-15 here, a sparkled pistol there. Today’s woman has holsters and targets of her own. In Indy, the Law Enforcement Targets booth had already sold out of its bestselling pink shooting target, sales of which benefit not the NRA’s “round-up” program, but breast cancer research … Continue reading Guns for Ladies

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Princeton Mom Isn’t In ‘Your 25-year-old World’

Allison Hantschel

There’s really no better way to make your argument to young people than to call them stupid right from the get-go: Patton:There is no such thing as the absolute most perfect person. There’s no such thing. I know that in your 25-year-old world you believe that there is, but there just isn’t. … What you want in a mate and in a partner will change and evolve over time, and what might feel like the most absolute best perfect love of your life at 25 may not feel that way at 30, and what feels like the most perfect love … Continue reading Princeton Mom Isn’t In ‘Your 25-year-old World’

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Princeton Mom Isn’t In ‘Your 25-year-old World’

Allison Hantschel

There’s really no better way to make your argument to young people than to call them stupid right from the get-go: Patton:There is no such thing as the absolute most perfect person. There’s no such thing. I know that in your 25-year-old world you believe that there is, but there just isn’t. … What you want in a mate and in a partner will change and evolve over time, and what might feel like the most absolute best perfect love of your life at 25 may not feel that way at 30, and what feels like the most perfect love … Continue reading Princeton Mom Isn’t In ‘Your 25-year-old World’

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Princeton Mom Isn’t In ‘Your 25-year-old World’

Allison Hantschel

There’s really no better way to make your argument to young people than to call them stupid right from the get-go: Patton:There is no such thing as the absolute most perfect person. There’s no such thing. I know that in your 25-year-old world you believe that there is, but there just isn’t. … What you want in a mate and in a partner will change and evolve over time, and what might feel like the most absolute best perfect love of your life at 25 may not feel that way at 30, and what feels like the most perfect love … Continue reading Princeton Mom Isn’t In ‘Your 25-year-old World’

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Princeton Mom Isn’t In ‘Your 25-year-old World’

Allison Hantschel

There’s really no better way to make your argument to young people than to call them stupid right from the get-go: Patton:There is no such thing as the absolute most perfect person. There’s no such thing. I know that in your 25-year-old world you believe that there is, but there just isn’t. … What you want in a mate and in a partner will change and evolve over time, and what might feel like the most absolute best perfect love of your life at 25 may not feel that way at 30, and what feels like the most perfect love … Continue reading Princeton Mom Isn’t In ‘Your 25-year-old World’

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Women Are Trivial Creatures

Allison Hantschel

That’s at the heart of this: The second concern, as expressed in the Journalarticle, is that “Critics fear genetically vetting embryos can be used to create so-called designer babies.” Ah yes, designer babies, the Frankenstein fear the media has been mongering for years. “If embryos can be selected to be free of harmful genes, they [the unnamed critics] argue, who is to say they will never be screened for particular genetic traits that parents might desire or want to avoid?” notes a 2009 article in the Telegraph. “Enter the ‘designer baby’ who is destined to be top of the class, … Continue reading Women Are Trivial Creatures

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Women Are Trivial Creatures

Allison Hantschel

That’s at the heart of this: The second concern, as expressed in the Journalarticle, is that “Critics fear genetically vetting embryos can be used to create so-called designer babies.” Ah yes, designer babies, the Frankenstein fear the media has been mongering for years. “If embryos can be selected to be free of harmful genes, they [the unnamed critics] argue, who is to say they will never be screened for particular genetic traits that parents might desire or want to avoid?” notes a 2009 article in the Telegraph. “Enter the ‘designer baby’ who is destined to be top of the class, … Continue reading Women Are Trivial Creatures

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Women Are Trivial Creatures

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That’s at the heart of this: The second concern, as expressed in the Journalarticle, is that “Critics fear genetically vetting embryos can be used to create so-called designer babies.” Ah yes, designer babies, the Frankenstein fear the media has been mongering for years. “If embryos can be selected to be free of harmful genes, they [the unnamed critics] argue, who is to say they will never be screened for particular genetic traits that parents might desire or want to avoid?” notes a 2009 article in the Telegraph. “Enter the ‘designer baby’ who is destined to be top of the class, … Continue reading Women Are Trivial Creatures

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Women Are Trivial Creatures

Allison Hantschel

That’s at the heart of this: The second concern, as expressed in the Journalarticle, is that “Critics fear genetically vetting embryos can be used to create so-called designer babies.” Ah yes, designer babies, the Frankenstein fear the media has been mongering for years. “If embryos can be selected to be free of harmful genes, they [the unnamed critics] argue, who is to say they will never be screened for particular genetic traits that parents might desire or want to avoid?” notes a 2009 article in the Telegraph. “Enter the ‘designer baby’ who is destined to be top of the class, … Continue reading Women Are Trivial Creatures

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Women Are Trivial Creatures

Allison Hantschel

That’s at the heart of this: The second concern, as expressed in the Journalarticle, is that “Critics fear genetically vetting embryos can be used to create so-called designer babies.” Ah yes, designer babies, the Frankenstein fear the media has been mongering for years. “If embryos can be selected to be free of harmful genes, they [the unnamed critics] argue, who is to say they will never be screened for particular genetic traits that parents might desire or want to avoid?” notes a 2009 article in the Telegraph. “Enter the ‘designer baby’ who is destined to be top of the class, … Continue reading Women Are Trivial Creatures

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Women Are Trivial Creatures

That’s at the heart of this: The second concern, as expressed in the Journalarticle, is that “Critics fear genetically vetting embryos can be used to create so-called designer babies.” Ah yes, designer babies, the Frankenstein fear the media has been mongering for years. “If embryos can be selected to be free of harmful genes, they [the unnamed critics] argue, who is to say they will never be screened for particular genetic traits that parents might desire or want to avoid?” notes a 2009 article in the Telegraph. “Enter the ‘designer baby’ who is destined to be top of the class, … Continue reading Women Are Trivial Creatures

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‘Work and Life Balance’

Allison Hantschel

Yeah, because men get asked about that shit all the time:  “I got a lot of criticism and I said I always thought this was not a gender issue, this is a human issue of work and life balance,” Lauer said in reaction to backlash from his interview that aired one week earlier. “It’s a parenting issue for men and women, moms and fathers, a question I ask myself every single day. But clearly it still touches a nerve.” It's a parenting issue for men and women, but women are the ones who get the questions. You may ask yourself that question, … Continue reading ‘Work and Life Balance’

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Birth Announcements & Child Abductions

Allison Hantschel

Missed this one over the holidays: The [Wisconsin] State Journal will stop publishing birth announcements later this week because Madison’s two birthing hospitals will no longer provide the information to the newspaper. The end of the traditional keepsake for parents and notice to the community stems from a growing concern about infant abductions, hospital officials say. Birth listings “set people up as targets for somebody who might want to steal a baby,” said Kathy Kostrivas, Meriter Hospital’s assistant vice president for women’s health services. Birth announcements still go in the paper? I MIGHT put one in my old hometown paper … Continue reading Birth Announcements & Child Abductions

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Birth Announcements & Child Abductions

Missed this one over the holidays: The [Wisconsin] State Journal will stop publishing birth announcements later this week because Madison’s two birthing hospitals will no longer provide the information to the newspaper. The end of the traditional keepsake for parents and notice to the community stems from a growing concern about infant abductions, hospital officials say. Birth listings “set people up as targets for somebody who might want to steal a baby,” said Kathy Kostrivas, Meriter Hospital’s assistant vice president for women’s health services. Birth announcements still go in the paper? I MIGHT put one in my old hometown paper … Continue reading Birth Announcements & Child Abductions

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Old Spice Just Hates People

I honestly don’t know who in this story I feel worse for: Fellas, your greatest achievement in life is detaching yourself from your horrible hag of a mom! You can’t have a healthy relationship with her while living a normal adult life, like a person! You must escape her clutches, and take no notice of her dragging behind you, an old tight-permed biddy who just folds laundry and knits and hates your friends. Ladies, your child’s most significant relationship in life should be with you alone, and any part of growing up that threatens your ability to think of him … Continue reading Old Spice Just Hates People

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‘Time is going to be your greatest enemy’

First of all, thanks for all the good wishes on this. Your support means a lot, and everybody who says Internet friends aren’t real friends can bite me. Second, this person can also bite me: KOOIMAN: I fit into that category perfectly. I’m single. I’m 29 years old. I’m very career-oriented. What is your advice in just a couple sentences?VENKER: My advice is, as the years go on and you find that you want, if you do, to get married and settle down, to understand time is going to be your greatest enemy. Not your husband, not men, not the … Continue reading ‘Time is going to be your greatest enemy’

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Childless Women Lack Essential Humanity

Allison Hantschel

Boy, do I ever love it when they just come right out and say it.Oh, and fuck your sympathy, you condescending bitchmonster: I mean, seriously, what is this paragraph even trying to say beyond “please don’t fire me Mr. ‘Femail is a Great Name for a ‘Lifestyles’ section’, I can pimp breeding for white women harder if you want!” But, more than all the things we want, we actually need our children; they complete us as women, they are our light and our love and our legacy. Because without that ability to spawn actual human beings with their uteruses (well, … Continue reading Childless Women Lack Essential Humanity

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Cottle Call

Peter Adrastos Athas

The trolls over at Politico are hard at it. A piece by Michelle Cottle about FLOTUS and feminismhas lots of folks riled up. It claims that Michelle O (remember Jackie O?) is feminism’s worst nightmare because of the issues she’s chosen to emphasize. Lots of pundits have risen to the bait and denounced Ms. Cottle as a varmint, rustler, and all around pain in the ass. I’m not going to do that because Politico is a gossip sheet (that’s why Charlie Pierce calls it Tiger Beat on the Potomac) that is written by and for trolls. I do, however, have … Continue reading Cottle Call

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Cottle Call

The trolls over at Politico are hard at it. A piece byMichelle Cottle about FLOTUS and feminismhas lots of folks riled up. It claims that Michelle O (remember Jackie O?) is feminism’s worst nightmare because of the issues she’s chosen to emphasize. Lots of pundits have risen to the bait and denounced Ms. Cottle as a varmint, rustler, and all around pain in the ass. I’m not going to do that because Politico is a gossip sheet (that’s why Charlie Pierce calls it Tiger Beat on the Potomac) that is written by and for trolls. I do, however, have one … Continue reading Cottle Call