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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.
that about covers it
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