Mothers should rule the world

[slomo]

When I saw this thread I got a knot in my stomach.

And now I'm going to risk becoming the most hated person at the forum and say:

Whew, someone has taken the heat off of me!

I think to me it's clear that the OP is about the "good mom". Clearly, some moms are bad (looks like you and I did not have the most positive mothering experiences*), but I think it's understood that we're talking about the positive archetype. I hope?

*FWIW, my grandmother was awesome, so I think of her in reference to the OP.

[guruilla]

Nice, you bumped us right to the next page. Nothing to see here, folks.

I think it's understood that we're talking about the positive archetype. I hope?

I was under the impression we were talking about individuals not archetypes. If we want archetypes to rule the world, I have some good news: they already do. (Wait, I said that already.)

[Nordic]

I enjoy women being in charge. For one main reason: most women lack a Male Ego.

I do not like dealing with Male Egos. Nobody does, really. But give a man done responsibility or authority, and it emerges.

Then there's Hillary. Who may be Transgendered in the ego department.

[82_28]

Not that any mother should rule simply because she is a mother; but that mothers should rule by convincing a plurality of mothers -- that, I can get with.

That's what I meant. Not any specific mother, just mothers, collectively. There's no safer or more wonderful place to be, than among mothers collectively. Even for the mothers themselves.

Unless as a grown adult, you are forced as a son that kinda hated his mother growing up, to totally help your mother when the push came to shove of the reality of the situation as she grows older. With my mom, she was strict as fuck with me because for some reason I was born a rebel. I do now, but I never followed no rules. I have since tempered, but I don't follow rules, by rule. I do think that she taught me to be "feisty" and that she is, but now she has run out of gas. So from all the bridges she burned over the last decades I felt that I was the very last bridge that could exist for her. She'll never read this, so I will feel free to comment about this.

She took all my toys out of my room for months because James Dobson (Right Wing Focus on the Family) told her so because I didn't behave in a Christian manner/way. The rules were not "sinking in" as it were. She still hasn't apologized for this and I can't bring this trauma up to her because she has never made a mistake and I will "hurt her further" if I did.

Anyhoo, financially poor ass me is paying for his not so gracious upbringing because I have just enough. She did bring me a birthday present though. Which happens to be today.

[coffin_dodger]

HB 82 - how many rotations around the sun?

[82_28]

One pass by the sun left to get to the magic 42.

[82_28]

How about yourself, coffin?

[coffin_dodger]

rapidly approaching 1/2 century - but feel hundreds of years older.

[conniption]

Which happens to be today.

Happy Birthday 82_28!!!

much love.

[82_28]

I feel like I'm still 18, but my knees don't agree. I'll have to read Hitchhikers Guide again. I think it was all the skateboarding and basketball I did at a young age. I can't even imagine getting on a skateboard again for any reason. Which sucks.

[guruilla]

From discussing mothers to celebrating the birth of sons. Apt hijack.

[norton ash]

I think grandmothers should rule the world. There would be more doilies and hard candy. And cats would be fed.

[zangtang]

grandmothers & grandfathers - work our way back to council of elders

i'd love to see someone argue with that.

[guruilla]

grandmothers & grandfathers - work our way back to council of elders

i'd love to see someone argue with that.

[Elvis]