I am so sick of boy-mom sh*T

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you people completely unconnected from the world? Do you not use twitter or instagram? #boymom is a thing.

Is this the 50s forum???

ThT'smwhat I'm thinking. I'm a girl mom, but I've seen the boymom thing on Facebook. It's usually memes. I can't believe there are mom's of only boys who don't get it. For what it's worth, I don't have a problem with it. It's basically just light hearted venting over how hard it is to have only boys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you people completely unconnected from the world? Do you not use twitter or instagram? #boymom is a thing.

Is this the 50s forum???

ThT'smwhat I'm thinking. I'm a girl mom, but I've seen the boymom thing on Facebook. It's usually memes. I can't believe there are mom's of only boys who don't get it. For what it's worth, I don't have a problem with it. It's basically just light hearted venting over how hard it is to have only boys.

As a father of 3 girls, I literally have no idea. I do miss having awesome Nerf dart guns....er.... Nerf dart "dispensers"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you people completely unconnected from the world? Do you not use twitter or instagram? #boymom is a thing.

Is this the 50s forum???

ThT'smwhat I'm thinking. I'm a girl mom, but I've seen the boymom thing on Facebook. It's usually memes. I can't believe there are mom's of only boys who don't get it. For what it's worth, I don't have a problem with it. It's basically just light hearted venting over how hard it is to have only boys.

or how easy it is or how funny it is or how dirty it is or how geeky it is... it's not just one thing. its not better or worse it's just different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, I also haven’t seen this. What does it refer to? Just the advertising fact that your kids are boys or...what?

Yesterday, on Facebook, a Facebook friend posted a tale of her 3 yo using the restroom and calling her in to inspect his #2. She included a picture and #boymom

Teeerashy.

Why? This would be funny without the picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no clue what you're talking about.

+1. Just vague and cryptic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So is it me or my son who is the loser because none of the boy mom crap applies to him/us? Just stop it, please. It's not cute.

So what is "boy-mom sh*T?" I genuinely have no idea

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I also haven’t seen this. What does it refer to? Just the advertising fact that your kids are boys or...what?

Yesterday, on Facebook, a Facebook friend posted a tale of her 3 yo using the restroom and calling her in to inspect his #2. She included a picture and #boymom

I assumed all 3 year olds did this. Both my son and daughter did.

I have three girls and none of them did this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So is it me or my son who is the loser because none of the boy mom crap applies to him/us? Just stop it, please. It's not cute.

So what is "boy-mom sh*T?" I genuinely have no idea

It's just moms complaining about how exasperating it is to have boys. I dont see why people get upset over it. As a mom of girls, I find their tales to be rather entertaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I also haven’t seen this. What does it refer to? Just the advertising fact that your kids are boys or...what?

No, it's to show that you are really invested in being a mother to boys (with a strict and very stereotyped view of how boys are), that being a mother to boys is totally different from being a mother to girls, that it's just so special and fun and awesome and Instagram-worthy, and often to excuse your kid's bad behavior because he's "all boy."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I also haven’t seen this. What does it refer to? Just the advertising fact that your kids are boys or...what?

Yesterday, on Facebook, a Facebook friend posted a tale of her 3 yo using the restroom and calling her in to inspect his #2. She included a picture and #boymom

I assumed all 3 year olds did this. Both my son and daughter did.

I have three girls and none of them did this.

My daughter absolutely did this. It's a kid thing, not a boy thing.

[Anonymous]

Still confused. The two explanations just above (at 8:36 and 8:45) are completely different. One says it's commentary about how frustrating it is to have boys and the other says it's commentary on how much "fun" it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still confused. The two explanations just above (at 8:36 and 8:45) are completely different. One says it's commentary about how frustrating it is to have boys and the other says it's commentary on how much "fun" it is.

It can be both. I think 8:28's explanation is the best. I don't see the big deal, personally, although I don't do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still confused. The two explanations just above (at 8:36 and 8:45) are completely different. One says it's commentary about how frustrating it is to have boys and the other says it's commentary on how much "fun" it is.

NP

It's kind of a humblebrag -- ostensibly bemoaning something outside the norm while also reasserting your identity derived through your kids as part of a special kind of tribe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, I also haven’t seen this. What does it refer to? Just the advertising fact that your kids are boys or...what?

No, it's to show that you are really invested in being a mother to boys (with a strict and very stereotyped view of how boys are), that being a mother to boys is totally different from being a mother to girls, that it's just so special and fun and awesome and Instagram-worthy, and often to excuse your kid's bad behavior because he's "all boy."

It's this. It's annoying, because it tried to reinforce boy-stereotypes. It's time to move past this BS.