The fuck? I don’t know who Greta Thunberg is, but sailing across the Atlantic is the about the most un-snowflake like thing a person could do.  That’s right up there with alligator wrestling in my book.

“The world of tea parties and dresses and endless hours spent reading books was familiar to me, but boys? What would we do together? Would it be rough housing and fart jokes and stinky little boy feet? Would I fit in in the world of boys?”

I doubt my baby pictures will out my identity. It’s more important to share this FASHION from the 1980s.

I pick chihuahua mom.

Realizing that you can never be quiet enough...that’s always quite a moment.

I also sometimes see it as a sexist brag. Not always. But even some of the women quoted here are acting superior for having boys? Like not understanding “little men” is a weird flex? Granted, it’s not new that having boys is more celebrated than having girls. Just sad that women partake in it. 

This is nauseating and I cringed while reading this entire (well-written) article.

The problem is when we ascribe those parts of our kids (like one preferring cars instead of dolls) to their gender because our culture says that’s how people assigned to that gender ought to behave. If you had a daughter who made engine noises and said, well, that’s evidence there’s something about the girl…

1) There are lots of little girls like this too.

“Because you’ll clean up for them, so they have no incentive to be careful.”

I’m mom to just one girl but yes, all of this. Her feet smell. She burps and farts with glee. She loves dinosaurs, digging in the dirt, outer space, and doing science experiments. She also loves dolls, looking pretty, and princesses. These things are not mutually exclusive and the whole #boymom phenomenon drives me…

I think the danger is when you emphasize and reinforce the difference too much. Or you think because a child is a boy that he can’t like things that are stereotypically feminine.

Even before I had a kid, I’m constantly surprised at how people are so eager to ascribe gendered expectations to otherwise normal behavior in babies and children.

Exactly. #Boymom is the precursor to “Boys will be boys.”

Yikes.

My Mom had all girls and “boy moms” used to annoy her so much. They all seemed to assume that being loud, messy, and roughhousing was something only boys did. She would frequently point out that my sisters and I did all of those things (especially the story where my middle sister and I were fighting and fell onto the…

I’m the mom of two young boys and I actively dislike the whole #boymom culture. My boys are not defined by their gender and I am not defined by their gender either. Yes, there are a lot of fart jokes and muddy feet, but there is also long hair and painted fingernails. Trucks riding in doll strollers. Plush dinosaurs…

It seems people from both sides of the political spectrum want to tell me what to do with my own damn uterus.  I guess they’ll all just have to die mad about it.

because he doesn’t travel the world giving standing room only presentations? because ‘free tibet’ hasn’t been around for 30+ years? yep, you’re right. no one cares.

Seriously. Some of these fools act as though women would DIE without their little “compliments.” When in doubt, just keep your mouth shut. There won’t be an apocalypse because you cut down on your compliments, as though you are responsible for validating women’s existences.