The End of Mommy Blogs
I like to believe that's Dr. Pepper in the bottle. Papi had to talk me down off the ledge again last night. I was having my bimonthly emotional crisis*. This time it was brought on by reading too many good-mother blogs. When I first stumble across these I find them inspiring. The moms take professional-quality pictures of children in clothes that they personally sewed from vintage fabric. They make healthy dinners using the organic, locally-grown produce they find at the farmer's market, which of course their children are delighted to eat. Their children eschew Pokemon in favor of Waldorf toys and have yet to watch a television program. They go on "simple living" kicks while simultaneously posting at least daily about the perfectly hip items they found that they COULD buy, because they're also somehow not teetering on the brink of financial apocalypse. They live in mint-condition midcentury houses that are featured on Cookie's blog. All of these things...
im curious to know why you thought it was misogynistic. i agree but havent heard anyone else say anything but how cute it is...
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a little sad.
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree that it was misogynistic - I walked out of that movie theater with my feathers seriously ruffled! I hated how blank the female protaganist was and the thesis that she was heartless/cold/confusing because she didn't want their affair to be more than it was, even though the movie tried to pretend it actually thought she was always way too cool for him. But really that self-absorbed, entitled resentment was always just their, lurking underneath the film's surface.
ReplyDeleteExactly what Rachel said. The character was the girlfriend from hell that men warn each other about -- hot and cold, impossible to predict. And her character was only sketched out in the most shallow way.
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