Oh yeah. For sure.  I had a friend who taught at the school some years ago who had the slightest accent.  Parents complained endlessly that their kids were doing poorly because they couldn't understand the material due to the teacher's accent.  I'm talking about the same level of accent as Ricky Martin speaking…

My youngest son’s “BFF” as he says is a little girl from school who does all those things, she came over to our house one day and just stood in the living room letting out this huge fart and just giggled afterwards, then she and so ran off to dress up and put on a play for everyone.    

yup. i have four sisters and we all played sports (to the mom up there hoping for a girl so she wouldnt have to wash sweaty athletic clothes *eyeroll*), my dad taught us how to use tools, coached our softball teams, etc etc. We also were plenty rough and definitely kept up with all the boys in our neighborhood.

I hate that first date with dad nonsense.  I'm still convinced there's a lost chapter from The handmaid's tale that involves this and purity rings.

One of my good friends and his girlfriend have decided to have a baby and they recently announced that they were having a daughter.

My friend and I own a race car together (its old, slow and crappy, but that’s all part of the charm) and so i kind of casually dropped the ol “so....its gonna be pretty fun teaching your…

I once had a man threaten to kill me if I ever painted his three-year-old son’s nails again (I had mom’s full permission). And the little guy had been so proud of his Iron Man-inspired gold and red pedi.

On that note: A slightly older friend just posted a photo on FB of her husband taking their tweenaged daughter on “her first date,” so that he could show her “how a gentleman acts” on a date. I avoided throwing up in my mouth, but it was a very close call for a while.

Thank you for trying to raise a boy who views others as equals. We can’t make a world that treats women fairly by only educating little girls. Not enough people realize this.

I’m a dad of girls (#girldad?) and when they are together they can be rougher than any pair of boy siblings they’re friends with. Not that it is a competition obviously - but my experience with them has definitely opened my eyes about the expectations for girls vs boys (even before reading this article). Mainly, it’s…

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

Oooooo!! This is my BIG pet peeve! The idea that “Boys can’t be trained!” The world is going to be full of nasty little narcisist-types who expect to get their own way in every situation! It makes me CRAZY. I know not all #boymoms are like this, but I’ve heard “boys will be boys” waaaaay too many times in my life.…

And another straight line to men who feel like they have to act stereotypically male to prove that they are men, which probably includes most of the misogynists on the internet.  It’s hard enough for boys to break free from male stereotypes as a kid when their peers make fun of them for it, but it’s gotta be even…

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 have a college friends who is always posting photos on FB of her boy right in the middle of doing something bad or dangerous. I’m not a parent for a couple more months, but all I can think is “maybe if you spent that time just correcting the behavior rather than pulling out your phone for photos, which he equates as…

I also get cringey when I see a fellow #boymom (gross) taking her 5 year old son out for dinner and is like “Date night with Aiden!” Um, it’s not a date night. It’s you and your son out to dinner. WTF. 

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

So I worked in a preschool and something the 2 year old classroom used to deal with was moms referring to favorite teachers as their 2 year old son’s “girlfriend”. Like “oh there’s your girlfriend” jokes about crushes etc. My theory was that this was how they made their insecurity at having their baby’s love for…

A phrase that drives me crazy is referring to a baby as “my little man.” It’s not a man. It’s a fucking baby. And maybe, if you do a good job parenting, he won’t turn out to be the kind of men we all deal with every day. 

I’m a mom of a six month old boy, but I’m not a #boymom. Not only do I not have time to read mommy blogs or get into mom culture, but it seems very limiting for mothers to build their outward identity around motherhood. I mean, yeah, I spend like 80% of my time when not working or sleeping with my baby, but at least I…

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…