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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a son and always saw boymom as a negative term.

To me it's used to describe people with the "boys will be boys" attitude or use the excuse of "oh well they are a boy" for their poor behavior.  Or that their life is more chaotic, loud, messier , etc just because they have a boy and have some weird stereotypical idea that boys are loud, chaotic, and messy and girls are polite and sweet [/quote]

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This is how women proliferate misogyny and the patriarchy - holding boys and girls to different behavioral standards.[/quote]

100% this. It's not because they have only boys, it's because they make excuses for their boys bad behavior or their inability to rein them in or manage a schedule. In my family, my siblings and I only have girls, there are 8 in total. Some of them are loud and crazy, some of them are quiet and sweet. Some of them are involved in a ton of activities and require their parents to drive them all over from one thing to another, some do not. Life with multiple girls is no different than life with multiple boys, even if boymoms seem to think they are somehow different or special.[/quote]

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