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That attachment parenting TIME cover

That attachment parenting TIME cover

By tigtog on May 14, 2012

Annie Urban looks at how it’s so easy for the MSM to misuse the concepts underpinning attachment parenting to “throw some fuel on the mommy wars”, and how motherhood is not a competition.

Posted in ethics & philosophy, media, parenting | Tagged confected outrage, media circus, mummy wars, stereotypes | 9 Responses

Mary Elizabeth Williams on the recent NYT motherhood click 'n' stoush bait

Mary Elizabeth Williams on the recent NYT motherhood click ‘n’ stoush bait

By tigtog on May 2, 2012

There isn’t much in the entire package that doesn’t feel shamelessly manipulated to incite an old-fashioned chick fight here.

Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, media, parenting, relationships | Tagged mummy wars, stoushes | 7 Responses

Something wrong in the wiring.

Something wrong in the wiring.

By Mindy on January 10, 2011

There must have been a glitch in my wiring then, somehow I got the ‘male’ wiring and I am obviously an affront to nature or at least to motherhood. I don’t want to be a ‘house-wife’ and I think that is a pretty awful term with a nasty stereotype “what did you do all day?” attached and doesn’t reflect the reality of unpaid work whether you have children or not. ‘Working mother’ is a tautology, because it doesn’t matter whether you are paid or unpaid you are still working. Bloody hard I might add.

Posted in culture wars, gender & feminism, parenting, work and family | Tagged anti-feminist, mummy wars | 3 Responses

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