Something I was thinking about today, and my title says it all. "Mama Bear" is nothing but full of shit. My favorite case in point: Six years ( it's been a while but it's still funny), a neighbor walks out to her car to leave for work. Two teenage punks are in her driveway using her car for a skateboard ramp. She had parked her car facing outward so she could take stuff out of the trunk and one punk was on the roof of it yelling something to his friend. My neighbor goes ballistic and turns the garden hose on them. The two punks run home crying. When she gets home that evening, moo yelled something to her about going "mama bear" on her and my neighbor calls the cops. One cop had enough sense to tell moo that if she pursued this insanity her punk would face charges and she would have to pay for any damamge they did. Moo shut up after that.
My next example, and this is from a reddit thread discussed on this board in the past:
"Some idiot mom focused all of her attention on the baby in her stroller and completely forgot about her toddler. Toddler just could not stay still and walked right into a busy road. I ran after him and managed to get him away from one car that didn't slow down. Luckily, no one was hurt and I was glad the kid was okay. Next thing that happened was a hard push to my back and the mom screaming, "What did you do to my baybee?!"
Is this moo genuinely concerned about protecting her toadler or is she trying to cover up a post natal abortion? I'm inclined to think it's the latter.
My third case from a city data thread.
"Today, I noticed a young child wandering out onto a busy street. I managed to grab his arm just as he stepped off the sidewalk and yank him away from almost certain death. My reward was his mother, who was on her cell phone the whole time, screaming at me for touching her child."
Is "Mama Bear" protecting her child or her own shitty parenting?
I could go on but I won't because I know it gets tedious. I just wanted to share something I had learned.
ETA: The two punks who faced the garden hose were both older than fourteen.