is the word/phrase 'baby mama' racist?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would say depends on who is using it and the context. I notice that it’s only used for black people and often with a negative connotation.

I see it in medical contexts where it is factual, not racist or with a negative connotation.

What medical context do you frequently see “baby mama”, as in a person with whom someone has had a child but is not married to? Please note that it is not the same as “baby’s mother”.

Sorry, I actually meant baby daddy. From doctors and nurses - I suppose they also use baby mama but that's usually doesn't need to be said.

Wow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tom Brady's first child was with an actress. She is the mother of his child.

Richard Sherman (black football player). He has a baby mama even though he married her later.

It is another instance of who says it and how it is intended. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler had a movie called Baby Mama. It was supposed to be Hah-larious because, you know, they are so white and quirky and professional, and Baby Mama's are usually in reference to a Black woman (assumed to be the opposite of these characteristics).

Come to think of it, most of their humor was just this schtick of white people saying or doing things that (they think) are stereotypically black. It's just so funny because they are white and would NEVER be like that.

It's another instance of co-opting a phrase to make fun of a culture.

According to the Internet, Richard Sherman had a baby with someone while was and still married to someone else.

https://blacksportsonline.com/2022/05/richard-shermans-baby-momma-reina-westberg-claims-his-wife-ashley-moss-approved-and-encouraged-their-affair/

That doesn't square with your version.

And PP lied about the movie Baby Mama too. The Baby Mama in the movie was lower class, which was the major plot point. Tina's character had a baby, but it was (at first, allegedly) carried by Amy's character, the "Baby Mama", who she had a troubled relationship with

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s more classist and makes the person seem trashy (both the speaker and the “baby mama” being referenced).

Nope. Not classist at all. Purely racist. Myself and other upper class black friends have had the term used on us. We are all well educated and aren’t at all giving off a trashy vibe.

Forgot to add, we are all married to black men who are our husbands not our baby daddy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tom Brady's first child was with an actress. She is the mother of his child.

Richard Sherman (black football player). He has a baby mama even though he married her later.

It is another instance of who says it and how it is intended. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler had a movie called Baby Mama. It was supposed to be Hah-larious because, you know, they are so white and quirky and professional, and Baby Mama's are usually in reference to a Black woman (assumed to be the opposite of these characteristics).

Come to think of it, most of their humor was just this schtick of white people saying or doing things that (they think) are stereotypically black. It's just so funny because they are white and would NEVER be like that.

It's another instance of co-opting a phrase to make fun of a culture.

According to the Internet, Richard Sherman had a baby with someone while was and still married to someone else.

https://blacksportsonline.com/2022/05/richard-shermans-baby-momma-reina-westberg-claims-his-wife-ashley-moss-approved-and-encouraged-their-affair/

That doesn't square with your version.

I’m not the pp but you get the point. This happens all of the time to a certain group of people.

[Anonymous]

It’s derogatory, not racist. The baby mama I know is Puerto Rican. Baby mama to 5 kids, 3 different men.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say depends on who is using it and the context. I notice that it’s only used for black people and often with a negative connotation.

I see it in medical contexts where it is factual, not racist or with a negative connotation.

What medical context do you frequently see “baby mama”, as in a person with whom someone has had a child but is not married to? Please note that it is not the same as “baby’s mother”.

Sorry, I actually meant baby daddy. From doctors and nurses - I suppose they also use baby mama but that's usually doesn't need to be said.

Really? It seems so much simpler to say father or mother.

It’s one word instead of two, with the bonus of no racist undertones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, it's more classist.

All the baby mamas I know are poor white women.

What about that fathers?

Also white guys who never graduated high school. In fact, they are my relatives. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

No one:
Absolutely no one at all:
"Progressive" white women on DCUM: "It's classist, not racist!"

[Anonymous]

It's racist.

[Anonymous]

You can make anything racist if you think about it long enough or spin it that way.

Did you know that hip hip horray! is antisemitic? It's a derivative of "hep, hep" which was a rally cry to attack Jews.

[Anonymous]

I use it to refer to one of the three different moms of my brothers kids. He has 7 kids from 3 women and has never been married to any of them. My brother and all his baby mamas are white. It has a derogatory tone but it is not racist.

[Anonymous]

This still has very racist connotations to me. Maybe it's entered the larger vernacular. But still sounds off to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can make anything racist if you think about it long enough or spin it that way.

Did you know that hip hip horray! is antisemitic? It's a derivative of "hep, hep" which was a rally cry to attack Jews.

Not everything. While some people say that Eenie meenie minie moe is racist, it actually predates the US and possibly Britain.

[Anonymous]

Ask the many white, and diverse sections, of people in Oklahoma. (I’m not saying it’s all white, but there are a lot of white baby mamas there.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it's more classist.

All the baby mamas I know are poor white women.

What about that fathers?

Also white guys who never graduated high school. In fact, they are my relatives. Sigh.

And, all the white baby mamas and my relatives the baby daddys are not only white, but they are MAGAs as well.