Damn, those photographs are so unsettling.

This could be incredibly shallow and impertinent of me, but I’ll never forget a Daily Mail story titled “Shockingly thin Selma Blair displays her skeletal figure as she takes son to the park.” Her “skeletal frame” was the tabloid story, but I was really alarmed by the outfit she wore, in the context she wore it, in…

Yes! I think it is a peculiar combination of consumerism and infantilization that’s leading to the proliferation of “mommy” as an official label. Also, the newer cultural idea that parents’ lives (schedule, wants, language) revolve around the infant and not the other way around. No one other than your kid should call…

thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthaaaaaaankyou (from the adult parent/mother of a one-year old)

I’ve never been super into the idea of having kids, but this entire culture really puts me off even more.

Agreed. I don’t like the term at all. “Mama” is just as bad.