"Boymoms"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:there is sometimes a tinge of smug girl bashing in it - like glad to be a mom to only boys and not deal with girls drama

I've heard it from a number of moms of only boys over the years and never heard it in the reverse w/ only girls

There should be a reverse.

“Just cleaned my bathroom without having to clean pee off the wall. #girlmom.”

I have 2 boys, and never cleaned pee off the wall. The bathroom my daughter uses, yikes. Hair, toothpaste, "skin care" products everywhere, wet towels, lip balms, just shit everywhere. My boys brush their teeth and go.

Who buys the skincare? My tween & teen share a bathroom and it's clean. they each have a drawer for their stuff and they use it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:there is sometimes a tinge of smug girl bashing in it - like glad to be a mom to only boys and not deal with girls drama

I've heard it from a number of moms of only boys over the years and never heard it in the reverse w/ only girls

There should be a reverse.

“Just cleaned my bathroom without having to clean pee off the wall. #girlmom.”

I have 2 boys, and never cleaned pee off the wall. The bathroom my daughter uses, yikes. Hair, toothpaste, "skin care" products everywhere, wet towels, lip balms, just shit everywhere. My boys brush their teeth and go.

Who buys the skincare? My tween & teen share a bathroom and it's clean. they each have a drawer for their stuff and they use it.

Everybody buys her skin care. She uses her money, asks for only those things for her birthday, etc. If she's not leaving her skincare out it's clothes everywhere, hair accessories, soap, combs, brushes, little hair bands, etc etc. My daughter is a slob. She also has ADHD and her brothers do not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These boymoms are largely responsible for most of the misogyny in the U.S. at present.

Yes! I have seen such a huge double standard amongst most people when it comes to raising their boys and girls. These parents expect the world from girls but keep giving their boys a free pass for everything. Basically shrugging their shoulders and saying “boys will be boys”. Can’t stand that phrase. Discipline your boys, make them work hard, teach them manners and how to focus and stop giving in to every demand of theirs.

Have you really, though? Or are you just confusing television/movies/the internet with real life (like most posters in this thread)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These boymoms are largely responsible for most of the misogyny in the U.S. at present.

Just out of curiosity, does your definition of “misogyny” include blaming women for men’s behavior?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have only boys and to top it off they are not athletic. No dance classes and also no sports equipment filling my garage.What should I call myself? Nerd-mom?

No. You are just a mom. Like me. I have a boy and a girl. My girl is the athlete. My boy is cleaner and quieter than my girl. It is the mom's that seem to be so proud that their boys are "ALL BOY" in the most stereotypical way possible. Most "boy moms" will regularly post on SM with #boymom. They wear it as a badge of honor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These boymoms are largely responsible for most of the misogyny in the U.S. at present.

Yes! I have seen such a huge double standard amongst most people when it comes to raising their boys and girls. These parents expect the world from girls but keep giving their boys a free pass for everything. Basically shrugging their shoulders and saying “boys will be boys”. Can’t stand that phrase. Discipline your boys, make them work hard, teach them manners and how to focus and stop giving in to every demand of theirs.

Have you really, though? Or are you just confusing television/movies/the internet with real life (like most posters in this thread)?

Oh please. I listen to NPR while commuting. NPR is not, as you put it, “television/movies/internet.” Its journalism on the radio.

And NPR have had numerous pieces - even whole series - about how parents expect perfection from girls but these same parents all give boys a free-pass for everything; the parents just shrug their shoulders when boys misbehave and make lame excuses like “boys will be boys.”

Everything in America is so completely biased against girls!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These boymoms are largely responsible for most of the misogyny in the U.S. at present.

Yes! I have seen such a huge double standard amongst most people when it comes to raising their boys and girls. These parents expect the world from girls but keep giving their boys a free pass for everything. Basically shrugging their shoulders and saying “boys will be boys”. Can’t stand that phrase. Discipline your boys, make them work hard, teach them manners and how to focus and stop giving in to every demand of theirs.

Have you really, though? Or are you just confusing television/movies/the internet with real life (like most posters in this thread)?

Oh please. I listen to NPR while commuting. NPR is not, as you put it, “television/movies/internet.” Its journalism on the radio.

And NPR have had numerous pieces - even whole series - about how parents expect perfection from girls but these same parents all give boys a free-pass for everything; the parents just shrug their shoulders when boys misbehave and make lame excuses like “boys will be boys.”

Everything in America is so completely biased against girls!

I am all for believing this, but I really haven't seen this in real life. Can you link to the piece?

Also, how old are the kids we are talking about here? And what is meant by "perfection?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These boymoms are largely responsible for most of the misogyny in the U.S. at present.

Yes! I have seen such a huge double standard amongst most people when it comes to raising their boys and girls. These parents expect the world from girls but keep giving their boys a free pass for everything. Basically shrugging their shoulders and saying “boys will be boys”. Can’t stand that phrase. Discipline your boys, make them work hard, teach them manners and how to focus and stop giving in to every demand of theirs.

Have you really, though? Or are you just confusing television/movies/the internet with real life (like most posters in this thread)?

Oh please. I listen to NPR while commuting. NPR is not, as you put it, “television/movies/internet.” Its journalism on the radio.

And NPR have had numerous pieces - even whole series - about how parents expect perfection from girls but these same parents all give boys a free-pass for everything; the parents just shrug their shoulders when boys misbehave and make lame excuses like “boys will be boys.”

Everything in America is so completely biased against girls!

"Boys will be boys" is lame and wrong when you are talking about teenage boys and sexual abuse. But its pretty apt when you are looking at a bunch of six year olds on a playground. Girls' brain development happens earlier and they mature more quickly than boys, so six year old boys look completely moronic compared to the same age girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These boymoms are largely responsible for most of the misogyny in the U.S. at present.

Yes! I have seen such a huge double standard amongst most people when it comes to raising their boys and girls. These parents expect the world from girls but keep giving their boys a free pass for everything. Basically shrugging their shoulders and saying “boys will be boys”. Can’t stand that phrase. Discipline your boys, make them work hard, teach them manners and how to focus and stop giving in to every demand of theirs.

Have you really, though? Or are you just confusing television/movies/the internet with real life (like most posters in this thread)?

Oh please. I listen to NPR while commuting. NPR is not, as you put it, “television/movies/internet.” Its journalism on the radio.

And NPR have had numerous pieces - even whole series - about how parents expect perfection from girls but these same parents all give boys a free-pass for everything; the parents just shrug their shoulders when boys misbehave and make lame excuses like “boys will be boys.”

Everything in America is so completely biased against girls!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These boymoms are largely responsible for most of the misogyny in the U.S. at present.

Yes! I have seen such a huge double standard amongst most people when it comes to raising their boys and girls. These parents expect the world from girls but keep giving their boys a free pass for everything. Basically shrugging their shoulders and saying “boys will be boys”. Can’t stand that phrase. Discipline your boys, make them work hard, teach them manners and how to focus and stop giving in to every demand of theirs.

Have you really, though? Or are you just confusing television/movies/the internet with real life (like most posters in this thread)?

Oh please. I listen to NPR while commuting. NPR is not, as you put it, “television/movies/internet.” Its journalism on the radio.

And NPR have had numerous pieces - even whole series - about how parents expect perfection from girls but these same parents all give boys a free-pass for everything; the parents just shrug their shoulders when boys misbehave and make lame excuses like “boys will be boys.”

Everything in America is so completely biased against girls!

I am all for believing this, but I really haven't seen this in real life. Can you link to the piece?

Also, how old are the kids we are talking about here? And what is meant by "perfection?"

thought I had it Among favorites; couldn’t locate the npr but this is just one of the works of journalism they reviewed

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/06/03/the-new-book-boymom-reimagines-boyhood-in-an-age-of-impossible-masculinity

[Anonymous]

I primarily see it used to put down mothers who only have boys. American women prefer girls, so the idea that this broad contingency of women with only sons looks down on others is ridiculous. This goes over the head of most online users who employ this term though, so the whole issue doesn’t really matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These boymoms are largely responsible for most of the misogyny in the U.S. at present.

Yes! I have seen such a huge double standard amongst most people when it comes to raising their boys and girls. These parents expect the world from girls but keep giving their boys a free pass for everything. Basically shrugging their shoulders and saying “boys will be boys”. Can’t stand that phrase. Discipline your boys, make them work hard, teach them manners and how to focus and stop giving in to every demand of theirs.

Have you really, though? Or are you just confusing television/movies/the internet with real life (like most posters in this thread)?

Oh please. I listen to NPR while commuting. NPR is not, as you put it, “television/movies/internet.” Its journalism on the radio.

And NPR have had numerous pieces - even whole series - about how parents expect perfection from girls but these same parents all give boys a free-pass for everything; the parents just shrug their shoulders when boys misbehave and make lame excuses like “boys will be boys.”

Everything in America is so completely biased against girls!

"Boys will be boys" is lame and wrong when you are talking about teenage boys and sexual abuse. But its pretty apt when you are looking at a bunch of six year olds on a playground. Girls' brain development happens earlier and they mature more quickly than boys, so six year old boys look completely moronic compared to the same age girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These boymoms are largely responsible for most of the misogyny in the U.S. at present.

Yes! I have seen such a huge double standard amongst most people when it comes to raising their boys and girls. These parents expect the world from girls but keep giving their boys a free pass for everything. Basically shrugging their shoulders and saying “boys will be boys”. Can’t stand that phrase. Discipline your boys, make them work hard, teach them manners and how to focus and stop giving in to every demand of theirs.

Have you really, though? Or are you just confusing television/movies/the internet with real life (like most posters in this thread)?

Oh please. I listen to NPR while commuting. NPR is not, as you put it, “television/movies/internet.” Its journalism on the radio.

And NPR have had numerous pieces - even whole series - about how parents expect perfection from girls but these same parents all give boys a free-pass for everything; the parents just shrug their shoulders when boys misbehave and make lame excuses like “boys will be boys.”

Everything in America is so completely biased against girls!

I am all for believing this, but I really haven't seen this in real life. Can you link to the piece?

Also, how old are the kids we are talking about here? And what is meant by "perfection?"

thought I had it Among favorites; couldn’t locate the npr but this is just one of the works of journalism they reviewed

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/06/03/the-new-book-boymom-reimagines-boyhood-in-an-age-of-impossible-masculinity

I thought you were joking. No, actually, hearing something on NPR isn’t the same as seeing it in real life.

YOU have not seen a huge double standard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These boymoms are largely responsible for most of the misogyny in the U.S. at present.

Yes! I have seen such a huge double standard amongst most people when it comes to raising their boys and girls. These parents expect the world from girls but keep giving their boys a free pass for everything. Basically shrugging their shoulders and saying “boys will be boys”. Can’t stand that phrase. Discipline your boys, make them work hard, teach them manners and how to focus and stop giving in to every demand of theirs.

Have you really, though? Or are you just confusing television/movies/the internet with real life (like most posters in this thread)?

Oh please. I listen to NPR while commuting. NPR is not, as you put it, “television/movies/internet.” Its journalism on the radio.

And NPR have had numerous pieces - even whole series - about how parents expect perfection from girls but these same parents all give boys a free-pass for everything; the parents just shrug their shoulders when boys misbehave and make lame excuses like “boys will be boys.”

Everything in America is so completely biased against girls!

I am all for believing this, but I really haven't seen this in real life. Can you link to the piece?

Also, how old are the kids we are talking about here? And what is meant by "perfection?"

thought I had it Among favorites; couldn’t locate the npr but this is just one of the works of journalism they reviewed

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/06/03/the-new-book-boymom-reimagines-boyhood-in-an-age-of-impossible-masculinity

I thought you were joking. No, actually, hearing something on NPR isn’t the same as seeing it in real life.

YOU have not seen a huge double standard.

DP. Mom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These boymoms are largely responsible for most of the misogyny in the U.S. at present.

Yes! I have seen such a huge double standard amongst most people when it comes to raising their boys and girls. These parents expect the world from girls but keep giving their boys a free pass for everything. Basically shrugging their shoulders and saying “boys will be boys”. Can’t stand that phrase. Discipline your boys, make them work hard, teach them manners and how to focus and stop giving in to every demand of theirs.

Have you really, though? Or are you just confusing television/movies/the internet with real life (like most posters in this thread)?

Oh please. I listen to NPR while commuting. NPR is not, as you put it, “television/movies/internet.” Its journalism on the radio.

And NPR have had numerous pieces - even whole series - about how parents expect perfection from girls but these same parents all give boys a free-pass for everything; the parents just shrug their shoulders when boys misbehave and make lame excuses like “boys will be boys.”

Everything in America is so completely biased against girls!

I am all for believing this, but I really haven't seen this in real life. Can you link to the piece?

Also, how old are the kids we are talking about here? And what is meant by "perfection?"

thought I had it Among favorites; couldn’t locate the npr but this is just one of the works of journalism they reviewed

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/06/03/the-new-book-boymom-reimagines-boyhood-in-an-age-of-impossible-masculinity

This is an article about a feminist author and mother of three boys writing a book that essentially says that feminism has sometimes gotten to the point that it can be anti-male or anti-boy.
It doesn’t say that parents expect perfection from girls and give boys a free pass on everything. It’s about someone who has a lot of conflicting thoughts and emotions.