‘I’d like to send a hilarious YouTube clip to a friend but I’m worried she’ll think I’m a smug mother,’ says my friend Jennifer.
Under normal circumstances Jennifer’s friend would appreciate the humour and cuteness of a baby playing with a Labrador puppy. But these are not normal circumstances. Jennifer’s friend is trying to conceive… more…
Labelling the judgement and criticism that mothers face on a daily basis as a “mommy war” reduces a complex social and economic problem to a simple matter of women not knowing how to behave themselves.
By being cute, girls and women participate in their own oppression by forfeiting the opportunity to be taken seriously. Here’s how to reject the culture of cute.
It took almost a decade of climbing the corporate ladder before it dawned on me that to some degree or another, everyone is an impostor.