December 16, 2006 - 12:51 AM.

Oh those damn dot moms

Man, do the people over at DotMoms ever stop to read the crap they write? I have HAD it with that website.

Every damn mother over there, except maybe Chris with the seven kids, writes about boring things in exactly the same tone as every "parenting" magazine article about the same (eternally rehashed) topics and comes to the same (eternally insipid) conclusions. There is nothing insightful, nothing inspiring, nothing even *interesting* (let alone radical). Yes, we get it that it is difficult to find girls' clothing in non-pink colors! Yes, we know that lots of women who look just like you huff and puff about carseat compliance! Yes, yes, we GET IT that you think the holidays are "too commercialized" and wring your hands that your children will think Xmas is about getting, not giving! (Oh horrors -- a kid will correctly perceive that people want to give him presents!) Or, even lovelier, there is just "nothing you can do" about your 7-year-old daughter's hour of homework in the German school system (try taking her out of school or something, you dope), and oh my poor "devious" infant doesn't want to wean but I'm going on a cruise so tra-la and too bad for him!

Jesus gay. For a group of probably smart and interesting women, they sure sound like a yard full of head-cocking, dirt-scratching idiot hens. Good GOD.

Always excepting Chris-with-the-seven-kids. She doesn't resort to artifice (or insults, like I do), she writes about things I've never seen anybody write about, and most importantly she isn't preachy. And for somebody who is never tired (her words!), has tons of energy, homeschools a swarm of children, is thin, apparently has plenty of money, and nursed for I believe 11 straight years, this is almost unbelievable. Not that doing any of those things makes one preachy; my experience is that doing those things and having an itch to write at the amateur level add up to -- preachiness. Bleahch.

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