Mom Cliques. I had no idea.

[Anonymous]

Be glad you don’t have to use logic for your job.

[Anonymous]

If you have one, that is…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP was sharing her experience and how it made her feel. She wasn’t asking for your analysis of the situation but looking to see if others have had similar experiences. Some of you are so self absorbed and didn’t even read, understand, or care to, what the poster was looking to discuss. So why engage? To show anonymously your viscous selves and then smile to women you don’t like tomorrow at school pick up?

She shared an innocuous story about a group of women having a social gathering, judged them, shamed them via text message, and then asked for others to share stories about women to collectively judge online.

The only mean girl in this story is OP.

Right? Share your story! Teehee. I'm not sure why people think she wanted sympathy, hair pats, and commiseration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This entire thread reminded me why I very much gravitate toward chatting with dads over moms at parent gatherings or on playgrounds.

Thanks for the trip back to Jr high, Regina Georges of the world.

-A "Red Flag" mama

+ 1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This entire thread reminded me why I very much gravitate toward chatting with dads over moms at parent gatherings or on playgrounds.

Thanks for the trip back to Jr high, Regina Georges of the world.

-A "Red Flag" mama

+ 1

Pick me, pick me! I’m not like all those “other moms.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP was sharing her experience and how it made her feel. She wasn’t asking for your analysis of the situation but looking to see if others have had similar experiences. Some of you are so self absorbed and didn’t even read, understand, or care to, what the poster was looking to discuss. So why engage? To show anonymously your viscous selves and then smile to women you don’t like tomorrow at school pick up?

She shared an innocuous story about a group of women having a social gathering, judged them, shamed them via text message, and then asked for others to share stories about women to collectively judge online.

The only mean girl in this story is OP.

Right? Share your story! Teehee. I'm not sure why people think she wanted sympathy, hair pats, and commiseration.

I feel for classmates or acquaintances of OP’s child. No one will be allowed to have a birthday with friends of their choosing if OP’s kid is not on the invite list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This entire thread reminded me why I very much gravitate toward chatting with dads over moms at parent gatherings or on playgrounds.

Thanks for the trip back to Jr high, Regina Georges of the world.

-A "Red Flag" mama

+ 1

Pick me, pick me! I’m not like all those “other moms.”

-1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This entire thread reminded me why I very much gravitate toward chatting with dads over moms at parent gatherings or on playgrounds.

Thanks for the trip back to Jr high, Regina Georges of the world.

-A "Red Flag" mama

+ 1

Pick me, pick me! I’m not like all those “other moms.”

DP. They’re definitely better than you.

[Anonymous]

So where is the mom meet up this Friday so everyone can come annd express their opinion in public? I can’t wait to meet the women who attacked OP (without any good reason)…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So where is the mom meet up this Friday so everyone can come annd express their opinion in public? I can’t wait to meet the women who attacked OP (without any good reason)…

If you have to ask…..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP was sharing her experience and how it made her feel. She wasn’t asking for your analysis of the situation but looking to see if others have had similar experiences. Some of you are so self absorbed and didn’t even read, understand, or care to, what the poster was looking to discuss. So why engage? To show anonymously your viscous selves and then smile to women you don’t like tomorrow at school pick up?

Get over it. OP never said her feelings were hurt, or she felt sad or left out. She expressed faux shock that a group could possibly be doing anything on a Friday without her and she's laughing about it. And know, we are not viscous. You might be, that's a weird way to describe people.

Project much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So where is the mom meet up this Friday so everyone can come annd express their opinion in public? I can’t wait to meet the women who attacked OP (without any good reason)…

Yeah, and Jeff should go too because, apparently, he’s “desperate to be part of the wine moms clique.” Just to refresh people’s memories(and laugh a little):

“The immediate reaction from those responding was not to share stories, but rather to attack the original poster.”

“It is almost as if the entire DCUM had turned into a mom's clique and was determined to ostracize the original poster. The attacks on the original poster reached the point that they generated their own backlash.”

“As one poster wrote, "But it should be obvious that many of these responses are actually emblematic of clique, ‘mean girl’ behavior that SOME women love to engage in. People ripping OP apart, saying she was excluded because she's horrible...it's just a typical mean girl response". But this had little effect and the criticism of the original poster continued”

“the original poster likely misinterpreted the situation and her reaction was probably overly strong. But the reaction of most of the posters, who appeared almost rabid in their eagerness to attack the original poster, was far more overdone.”

“It appears that like fight clubs, the first rule of mom cliques is to not talk about mom cliques.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP was sharing her experience and how it made her feel. She wasn’t asking for your analysis of the situation but looking to see if others have had similar experiences. Some of you are so self absorbed and didn’t even read, understand, or care to, what the poster was looking to discuss. So why engage? To show anonymously your viscous selves and then smile to women you don’t like tomorrow at school pick up?

Get over it. OP never said her feelings were hurt, or she felt sad or left out. She expressed faux shock that a group could possibly be doing anything on a Friday without her and she's laughing about it. And know, we are not viscous. You might be, that's a weird way to describe people.

Project much?

You shouldn’t use phrases you don’t understand.

[Anonymous]

I once organized an outing with a bunch of kindergarten moms. My friend and I invited around 10 moms from the school that we liked. We couldn’t/didn’t invite 100+ moms. We invited the 10 moms we liked and were friends with.

Now my youngest is in first grade. She is in Girl Scouts. I am friends with some of the moms and hang out. If a group of moms who happened to have girls in Girl Scouts were out together and another mom who had a girl in Girl Scouts saw us, it would not be awkward for me. I am not friends with the other mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP was sharing her experience and how it made her feel. She wasn’t asking for your analysis of the situation but looking to see if others have had similar experiences. Some of you are so self absorbed and didn’t even read, understand, or care to, what the poster was looking to discuss. So why engage? To show anonymously your viscous selves and then smile to women you don’t like tomorrow at school pick up?

Get over it. OP never said her feelings were hurt, or she felt sad or left out. She expressed faux shock that a group could possibly be doing anything on a Friday without her and she's laughing about it. And know, we are not viscous. You might be, that's a weird way to describe people.

Project much?

You shouldn’t use phrases you don’t understand.

Look who's talking. I believe you are actually viscous. I can sense your gloppy, thick, stickiness from here.