New Yorker Article - PLEASE Tell Me This Is A Joke!

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2012/09/17/120917sh_shouts_allen?currentPage=all

This HAS to be satire...right?? It is, after all, posted in the "humor" section (but the sad thing is that most breeders really do feel this way!) If this was posted on a Moo blog it would just be par for the course.

A little snippet:

When Mrs. Romney talks so movingly to the women of America, she leaves out the childless gals, and there is a reason for that: they are not moms.

You can sugarcoat that all you like, but Mrs. Romney chose not to, and I say good for her. Because, if you’re not a mom, you may not be a bad person, but you are an extraneous person. If there were something great about being a woman who is not a mom, something that added anything to America, if there were even one teeny-weeny example of how the non-moms hold America together the way moms do, Mrs. Romney would mention the childless gals. But she doesn’t, because there isn’t.

If it is a joke it's a bad one. I'm wondering how many CF nurses are on this board.

I'm pretty sure it's a satirical piece.

I know it's meant to be satire...but it rings just a little TOO truth-filled given what we know about Moos!

CF nurses, doctors, soldiers, polititians, charity workers (me) lawyers, scientists, nannies and other child care workers, teachers.... the list goes on and on. I hope it's a joke... but at the same time.... I do wish that we were mentioned in a more positive light.

Me, for one. 10 years this December.

What about the moms of people like John Hinckley Jr. or Mark David Chapman or Jeffrey Dahmer, just to name a few moms adding to America. Sometimes "adding" can be a really, really bad thing.

The reason most anything is funny is because there's at least some truth in it and what, how, or the way MANY PEOPLE DO BEHAVE! Good examples would be stereotypical non politically correct jokes like the following:


1)Redneck-because hillbillies really DO have yellow dogs lounging on the front porch and flannel shirts duct taped to missing truck window frames
2)Fat-because many obese people DO eat 8 plates of food at all you can stuff down your gullet buffets and wear horizontal striped lime and purple spandex outfits in public with the cracks of their asses exposed
3)People of Walmart-Self explanatory
4)Trailer park-because many people living in trailer parks ARE white trash and "lose their home" every single fucking tornado season
5)Single Moo-because most single moos ARE sluts and crank out litters of baby daddyless loaves and milk welfare
6)Racist ghetto-because so many living in the ghetto DO carry weapons and belong to gangs, drive low riders with 1k worth of tire accessories on EACH wheel, and wear over sized prison looking jeans hanging down around their asses
7)Stupid women-because many women DO play dumb and the "damsel in distress"
8)Clueless men or dumb-duddys-because many of them DO act like they don't know how to wash a load of clothes or bake a chicken
9)Old people-because many elderly people DO move slowly, act grumpy, and are confused and/or suffer from dementia
10)Bitter ChildLESS women/lonely lifelong bachelor-MANY, if not most, childLESS middle aged women are bitter they never married and spawned and many older never married men ARE lonely and foolishly seek female companionship in unsavory places


So, this piece is funny because there are PLENTY of actual SanctiMoos who literally feel this way and have been known to express their high and mighty feelings of superiority. So in a way, it isn't really satire because so damned many of them actually possess this basic mindset.

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If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!

I know this is supposed to be satire - but it reads SO MUCH like what *actual Moothers* say (as well as various politicians) that I was alternating between cringing and raging.



I do not find this funny in the least - as SO MANY Cows (and men, and politicians) hold these views and consider the rest of us as shit.

There's a few of us nurses here. 22 years in Dec for me and it as 32 years EMSthis past August.

I'd be willing to bet this was written by someone someone childfree, single woman, who lurks here.

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I do not consider this satire. Satire makes itself known. This is just straight up malicious due to the fact that moomies and many parents actually believe this shit. When you are able to nod our head in agreement, which many moomies and duhdys will do to this article, then it cant really be deemed satire. Satire is outlandish and preposterous, this is just far too accurate in a disturbing and ostracizing way.

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Godspeed, Catharsist

When I read this quote from FB:
"U know the Devil is soooooooool busy! Hes trying evrything he can to spread his NASTINESS...... but u know what i say......HOLYGHOST FIRE!!!! IN JESUS NAME AMEN."
I LOL every time.

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I do not consider this satire. Satire makes itself known. This is just straight up malicious due to the fact that moomies and many parents actually believe. When you are able to nod our head in agreement, which many moomies and duhdys will do to this article, then it cant really be deemed satire. Satire is outlandish and preposterous, this is just far too accurate in a disturbing and ostracizing way.

I agree. You said it better than I could.

I think it's a genius troll. I think the author is subtly making fun off all these moos who think that they have done some miraculous thing, but shitting out a loaf.

Anne Romney did only mention women in relation to the family, like we are little familial accessories, and not autonomous people.

Ummm... so the world is split into 3 type of people?

1) MOMMIES

2) Childless women

3) Daddies

So where does that leave all us male childfree? I guess we're just predators getting the childless women drunk for the one night stands and not calling the next morning.

The only clues I saw that the piece was satire was the Snooki bit and the husband locked in the basement with the dog. Everything else seemed legit with the moomy mentality.

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This seems like a bad attempt at satire. I think she began with the intention of mocking the pandering to mothers but it got derailed when she reminded herself how bitter and jealous she was of childless women while she was raising her kids and how she didn't got the nonstop worshiping she expected.

It is indexed under the humor section of the New Yorker.

At any rate, motherhood is still seriously overrated, as is apple pie.



Do away with Mother's Day, the world will be a better place.
/satire

Another nurse right over here, been practicing since graduation in 2008.

OH, I get it. If you aren't a Mom, then you are just a slut having one-night stands.

sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken
indecision may or may not be my problem

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OH, I get it. If you aren't a Mom, then you are just a slut having one-night stands.

Well, yeah, i've been called a whore once when i said i'm CF. And seriously, some people do think that CFs do not exist. We are just bitter childless who pretend to have perfect lives when in fact we don't. There are people who can't even think outside the lifescript and that there is an alternative of a life without kids.

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I do not consider this satire. Satire makes itself known. This is just straight up malicious due to the fact that moomies and many parents actually believe this shit. When you are able to nod our head in agreement, which many moomies and duhdys will do to this article, then it cant really be deemed satire. Satire is outlandish and preposterous, this is just far too accurate in a disturbing and ostracizing way.

I agree. I love satire and this is not it. Most moos would read that and agree with it.

Joke or not, this made me want to stab the author in the eye with a fork.

I think it's the kind of satire that takes the original premise waaaay off to an absurd conclusion. Sometimes by the time the author reaches the absurd conclusion he/she has had to jettison the whole "funny" aspect of the satire. I think it is funny, not in a humorous way necessarily, but in that you know that some "traditional values" types really think like that.

According to this bio (http://www.jennyallenwrites.com/about/) the author doesn't even have "two boys and two girls."

People who want to keep the imaginary Good Old Days going realized that the time when women expected to have to put everyone else first were rapidly ending. So they created a marketing machine to promote the idea that being a mawm, staying home and doing the monotonous, mundane tasks of taking care of kids is heroic and incredible. They've managed to sell the boring, annoying, confining drudgery of taking care of children and a house asThe Most Important /Hardest Job in the World. I think the author is making fun of women who have bought that line and and have a sense of moral superiority and massively inflated importance because of it.

Back when having kids was "just what you do," no one expected to be praised for it. The people who count on women being stuck at home watching their commercials on TV can't afford for too many of us to realize that kids are a choice, and not one that always pays off. So now the "Moms Are Any, Every and All Things that Matter" campaign is in high gear because it's a way of pretending to give women elevated status while keeping them stuck in the exact same roles as always. About 20 percent of us are opting out. Any more than that and it'll really start messing up people's profit projections and political ambitions.

Hey, I happen to think apple pie is GREAT.

Moohood, not so much.

Another consideration; people who have never had children, between the ages of 18-45 now number OVER 50%. Advertisers better catch that wave. Our corporate masters have already lost the battle, at least in the developed world.

I wandered over to Mommyish in search of snark material, and I saw that they also wondered what the fuck this piece was about but later concluded it was satire.

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“That’s a joke, right?” “It has to be a joke…” We considered the context, as it’s in the “Shouts & Murmurs” section. We considered how over-the-top the piece was in asserting that mothers are the only people who matter in the world. The sheer self-assuredness of the piece meant that it had to be a joke. Right… Right?

The problem and the reason we were all so hesitant to laugh is that every writer who even vaguely mentions the topic of parenthood realizes that the sentiment in “I’m a Mom” is one you can find all over the internet. The idea that non-parents don’t have any place commenting on the business of raising children? We’ve seen it. Calling childfree folks selfish, hateful and career-obsessed? It’s been discussed in mommy-chats all over the web. Mom being the most important but least appreciated people on the planet? There have been whole books devoted to the idea.

Can't you just see the herd giving each other udder rubs, and nodding about how wonderful they all are. And them realizing they are being mocked for thinking they are the most important people in the world. They are so brainwashed...

I still think it's a genius troll - and I hope to read more articles mocking the herd.