Purdue President’s Op-Ed
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Anonymous
Stop it. |
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Write to the Washington Post about your displeasure with the opinion:
Publisher + CEO Frederick "Fred" Ryan Frederick.Ryan@washpost.com |
Anonymous
DP. Why? It’s true. |
Anonymous
Not a FB post but a forum of pretty left leaning parentS. Daniel’s was spot on!! +1 |
Anonymous
Basic logic fail. PP said "I know one who turned down an endowed chair" She didn't offer over broad generalizations based on that. And certainly not as a Mother's Day or teacher appreciation tribute. Try again, you're 0 for 2. (or -200 as you say) |
Anonymous
You are, of course, correct. But I doubt that PP is bright enough to understand the logic. |
Anonymous
Yup. Fish rots from the head indeed. |
Anonymous
So you personally have seen statistics about mother's involvement that shows his examples reflect something common about mothers--common enough that he should be calling out mothers about this? You personally act, or know a lot of mothers who act that way (not read commentaries, seen on social media, heard people griping etc. but actually know ) that tells you his view is "spot on"? A whole lot of people talk about the issue of helicopter moms and then go on about "this one mom" as if she then reflects this mothering problem as a whole. This has nothing to do with left or right--it has to do with sloppy, sexist, generalizations. |
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The pps who rush to chime in SPOT ON!, sound so ignorant and are clueless that no one is defending the extreme examples he cites. Everything else about the piece is total rubbish. But all that "other" went over their heads.
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"Like the one who insisted, without ever providing any documentation, that her child was allergic to all nonorganic food."
Funny, I don't recall Mitch writing an op-ed about the mother of the "QAnon Shaman" insisting that he could only eat organic food in the DC jail after being arrested for participating in the January 6th attack. If he wanted to complain about overbearing moms maybe that would have been the better time to do it instead of Mother's Day weekend. Sure, there are some overbearing moms out there that can't seem to help themselves, but the vast majority aren't calling or sending emails to college presidents. |
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| My mom didn't know my major in college...I didn't have texting to alert her to my daily travails but I called her on the hall phone maybe once a week... my cafeteria food sucked, my dorm sucked, some professors sucked, but I did just fine. I follow(ed) my four kids college facebook groups and see the moms'...all moms, no dads.. posts, and I am sometimes tempted, but always decline, to chime in, on some grievence...and am so happy I resisted. The only thing I will say is that one mom called out a carbon monoxide detection her kids monitor found that identified a real issue...that, I do agree with. But, most things, as the kid, I would be mortified if my parent stepped in. |
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WaPo comments:
Maybe not the best messaging for someone whose Engineering Department is struggling to recruit female students and faculty? I’m beginning to see why. That said, putting the majority of your focus here on mothers and not parents is pretty darn sexist, Mitch. And nice timing on a weekend where we should be thanking and celebrating mothers and mother figures, full stop. He hates LGBTQ also. Disguisting person. Mitch, I know that you hate women of color. Every speech and writing has made this evident. You can more about the pigs of Indiana than you do the moms of the world. Is this the Washington Post’s idea of balanced reporting? One columnist offers strategies to cope with the Supreme Court’s covert announcement they will take bodily autonomy away from the female half of the U.S. population in 2022. The other columnist, a Republican university president, “celebrates” Mothers Day by denigrating the moms of kids at his university. The ugly and ironic message of this column highlights the all-in nature of the Republican war on women. Thank you! This is indeed one of the ugliest possible columns a person could write about mothers the day before Mother’s Day! The Post needs to install a new editorial page editor pronto. What’s the delay? Umm… (checks reproductive gear and stretch marks) yes I believe we did! I was the opposite of a helicopter parent actually, but that’s not the point. To parade the complaints of an elite Republican university president about a handful of moms at his elite university is beyond ugly as a way to “celebrate” Mother’s Day. Leave it to a fanatical “Christian conservative” to pervert & twist Mother’s Day messaging to include an indictment of over zealous parents…while slathering accolades on his own handling of these “mom mowers”. Tiresome. Republican President of Purdue wishes Happy Mothers Day, to even the crazy Moms of his students. No wonder his wife ran away once! Humorous to a point; but ill timed. These are the exceptions not the rule, there are some very heroic mothers out there, let’s applaud them. What a weird take. A few over the top examples of mothers having extreme reactions to letting go of their teenaged children? This would be a great topic of conversation over lunch with other college personnel but as a Mother’s Day essay in the WaPo? The guy who wrote this and whoever approved it for publication seem just as odd as the mothers they are deriding. Oddly tone deaf article for Mother’s Day. Wow. No doubt, helicopter parenting is a nuisance at best and harmful at worst. But really, Mitch Daniels? What a condescending and misogynistic op-ed for Mother's Day. Thanks for reminding us, again, of your true nature. I look forward to reading your corresponding opinion piece for Father's Day. What a patronizing message for Mother’s Day! Of course there are always examples of mothers (should be parents, really) being overzealous. But why would this be the message on a day to celebrate mothers? Ugh, thanks for letting us know that your university is run by a misogynist jerk that doesn’t take maintaining student housing properly. We’ll pass. Thanks, Mitch, for your unsolicited, misogynistic take on life. Thank you, also, for timing it with Mother's Day. You're the gift who keeps on giving. #DitchMitch I would love to believe this university official, but my experIence as a parent of three college students is that the schools do nothing when students advocate for themselves. No, I didn’t get involved, but the number of lies told to prospective students and their parents during visits is astounding. Colleges overall are doing a very poor job of educating, housing, feeding, and providing a safe campus. I wonder if their funny stories during orientation about helicopter parents are a way of intimidating parents to keep paying for substandard conditions. |
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Again, how many moms do these posts represent out of all the moms at the school? |
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No it isn’t. You are a stupid lefty who wants to ignorantly paint anyone moderately on tge right as being extreme. You are very wrong and very incorrect in your crude assessor politics. Grow up or start to learn by reading. |
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DP: "assessor politics"? |