Comments on: I know what it is, and I know I like it

By: Dead Alice Bot

Dead Alice Bot — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:07:45 +0000

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By: lucy

lucy — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:15:59 +0000

i liked alice, but cripes, you americans can be scary …i mean good morning america is ….i am a young mum, (not mom, i’m an australian living in new york) and i have to say..too much analysis!!!! ….i laughed as i tried to imagine my mum in the seventies, cork heels, lentils and a cigarette now and then, talking about being an alpha mom…
and i think she did it best…she was just a mum and still is.

By: amanda

amanda — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:52:43 +0000

Boy, between the titles they give us, the expectations they have and the way we need to do things slightly differently than we might normally to achieve to representation they are seeking (insert adjective) moms I am a little befuddled as to what to do next.
Perhaps I’ll just start with blocking my daughter’s attempts to touch my laptop with the spoon she’s been using to get the potty out of the dog’s add.
I only wish I could rock the skater looking shoes like Alice and personify wanting and so much more in my writing like Jenn. You two are awesome people – moms, writers, women, the whole kit and kaboodle.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:08:54 +0000

Oh, I only feel like a Delta mom because 1) I ignore my kid sometimes to read mommy blogs and parenting books, and b) I don’t blog myself (except for a brief-lived thing called “Snax” on Friendster. But I think you rock even tho I stumbled over here from Fussy/BlogHer.

By: Kirsten #2

Kirsten #2 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:26:09 +0000

pnuts mama – I think you hit the nail on the head there. That GMA story had no point and no focus, but it was just there to stir up controversy and try to cause divisions. “Oh, we’re not like *those* moms.” Controversy sells.

This is why I don’t watch morning shows or network news.

By: ozma

ozma — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:01:05 +0000

Alice is a glorious creature as are you. How cool you got to meet.

By: Y

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:31:06 +0000

Weird… I’m wearing a maxi pad with wings as I’m reading this….

By: pnuts mama

pnuts mama — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:36:38 +0000

i’ve been thinking about my comment all day and i think i know what is bothering me- in a much more subtle way, this is touching on the same issues when melissa summers went on the today show- the idea that women who continue to think for themselves, make choices that are powerful, and in fact set the trend rather than follow it *after* they become mothers seems to be very threatening to many people. as if women lose their adulthood, and ability to make conscious and informed decisions once they have a child. and that the “average” woman (blonds shaking their heads) disapproves of these rogues who dare to exert something outside the accepted norm. the misogyny in this country never ceases to amaze me anymore!

what I don’t get (i mean, i get it, but ykwim) is the whole need for marketers and the media to fire up a storm pitting “alpha” moms against (“beta? delta? omicron?”) moms as if ‘alphamom’ is some exclusive club that most moms wouldn’t be good enough for. which again, is where my initial confusion came from- the piece seemed so disjointed, as if the producers didn’t seem to understand what their own point was at all. were they for or against alpha moms? they have no idea.

what isabel and alice et al advocated for during the piece (to me) is a mom who is still her own person and takes some of the life lessons learned in her life (career, school, family, etc) and applies that to her role as a mom. what is wrong with that, i ask you, blond ladies who seemed overwhelmed and disgusted? we’re not better than you, we’re with you! we are just moms, just like you. the only people who win these ‘wars’ are the groups who instigate them. this mommy war bullsh*t has got to stop. i don’t even know where the sides are anymore. and, it seems, neither does the media.

By: the Mater

the Mater — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:54:59 +0000

Has anyone done a TV piece on “mommy bloggers” per se and this whole grass-roots thing?

I think that the BEAW crew and the Finslippy Alphas should start a write-in campaign to Oprah to get some of these gals on for a no-holds-barred tell-it-like-it-really-is session on today’s generation of mothers. Crayons preferred; laptops and maxi pads permitted. Stepford blondes not allowed.

By: alice

alice — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:22:24 +0000

The sad part is that usually I draw right along with Henry, but they didn’t like that, and wanted me on the laptop. I guess Alpha Moms aren’t supposed to color.