Katha Pollitt on femivores and the new SAHM: (aka Women Who Stay Home To Raise Chickens): “it’s like home-schooling, but with farm animals.” (Yes, the picture is entirely irrelevant, except for, maybe, the giant chicken. But isn’t it awesome?)
So THAT’S What Little Princes Are Made Of
By on April 22, 2010 5 Comments
I need your help folks: I’ve been staring at this children’s book or dvd cover for a while now and still can’t form a sentence to explain what is running through my head. Is it about a princess and her new beau? Is it a tale that aims to provide princesses with a reality check [...]
Ohio Doesn’t Understand How Breastfeeding Works
By on April 20, 2010 5 Comments
Apparently, this pro-breastfeeding billboard in Ohio left folks frightened and disturbed. Why? Well, because that baby in picture? Has MILK ON HIS CHIN. BREAST milk. From a PERSON. Which is, you know, DISGUSTING. . . . What? Nobody had a problem with those ‘Got Milk?’ ads, where everybody had cow’s milk on their upper lip? [...]
Texas Wants To Spank Your Kids
By on April 16, 2010 3 Comments
Holy shit, REALLY? You mean we spend all this time up here in the frozen north debating whether or not it’s abusive to spank your child even once, when they’re throwing a fit and about to hurl themselves into traffic, while Texas is all, oh, yeah, whatevs, IT’S GOOD FOR THEM, why not let teachers [...]
From The Europe Is Different Files: Swiss Parents Like To Terrorize Their Children
By on April 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
I don’t know, maybe it’s just my Canadian lack of sophistication, but it seems to me that hiring a terror clown to stalk and terrorize your children – as the Swiss are doing these days – is less a super-special birthday treat and more a unique and horrifying punishment for not finishing their vegetables. But [...]
Bad Moms Love Lost, And Locke, And Locke In Love, And Also Sawyer
By on February 18, 2010 9 CommentsThis week's episode of Lost – which featured the sideways-world (OtherWorld? AlternaWorld?) story of John Locke – was awesome, but still. I'm a little bit worried about this whole alternate reality – if that is, in fact, what it is – thing. I mean, is this all going to turn out like that horrible Gwyneth [...]
The Bad Moms Club Crafting And Cooking Corners Present: A Plethora of Placenta
By on January 11, 2010 9 Comments
Personally, I didn’t have much interest in saving my placenta when I gave birth. Yes, I was amazed by it (hello, we grow an organ which basically means we have special powers ergo we are super heroes) and I did ask to see it after it made it’s rather lackluster début (it’s tough following a [...]
Bad Moms Wanna Know: Should Our Girls Shake Their Groove Thangs… Like THIS?
By on December 16, 2009 9 CommentsEven We Have Standards: Two Things Not To Do With Stuff That Comes Out Of Your Nethers
By on November 18, 2009 4 CommentsI'm pretty sure that my body expelled some placenta with the births of both my children, but the only evidence of that is, in each case, the memory of someone yelling 'YOU'RE NOT DONE YET' after I'd shot each baby out of my lower parts. Because, no, I most certainly did not keep those placenta. [...]
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