If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives. — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“It's 5:22pm you're in the grocery checkout line. Your three-year-old is writhing on the floor, screaming, because you have refused to buy her a Teletubby pinwheel. Your six-year-old is whining, repeatedly, in a voice that could saw through cement, "But… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“At the very same time that we witnessed the explosion of white celebrity moms, and the outpouring of advice to a surveillance of middle-class… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“After all, the media have been and are the major dispenser of the ideals and norms surrounding motherhood: Millions of us have gone to… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good mothers were… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The frenzied hypernatalism of the women's magazines alone (and that includes People, Us, and InStyle), with their endless parade of perfect, "sexy" celebrity moms… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“It's 5:22pm you're in the grocery checkout line. Your three-year-old is writhing on the floor, screaming, because you have refused to buy her a… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age,… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“To review briefly, in the late 1960s, men got paid more than women (usually double) for doing the exact same job. Women could get… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“...There were the studies, beginning in 2007, which found that the suicide rate among women who had received breast implants were twice the suicide… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Most people don’t get (or want) to look at old news footage, but we looked at thirty years of stories relating to motherhood. In… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
