Comments on: “Married” Moms vs “Unmarried” Moms?

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:51:46 +0000

Have you read Princess Bubble? The princess learns true happily ever comes from helping others and liking who you are.

By: Anna / Mama-to-Be

Anna / Mama-to-Be — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:13:50 +0000

Liza- I thought of you last week when I was seething while reading this survey in OB’s office. I even took it home to send to you… but of course you beat me to it.
I found it to be completely devisive. “Hey New Moms! Let’s be enemies!” “Don’t feel like you are already judged enough? Well here you go!”
I would probably not have even finished reading it if I hadn’t been stuck waiting for so long.

By: Liza

Liza — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:35:35 +0000

Thanks, everybody! Shelley, that’s a very funny way to deal with junk mail.

Shelli, I was surprised by the total blank on adoption too! I mean, as a lesbian mom, I go through life semi-expecting to be marginalized. But adoption touches such a wide range of the population, I wouldn’t expect a publication like Babytalk to miss it.

By: shelli

shelli — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:00:28 +0000

oh yeah, and um, they also totally LEFT OUT Adoption!@

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH

By: shelli

shelli — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:37:24 +0000

I got that in the mail, too – and I was planning on writing a letter.

Thanks for the link!

Shelli

By: Shelley

Shelley — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:54:22 +0000

Liza, great response, thanks for taking the time to work on waking them up a bit.

This kind of “coverage” is crazy-making! Clearly, the folks who write and/or edit this stuff need to get out of their heteronormative cocoons!

My favorite? The junkmail we get from dating services that don’t include same-sex options. I fill their postage-paid envelopes with all manner of other junkmail and send it on back with a note explaining that their categories are so narrow as to be useless.

By: Round is Funny

Round is Funny — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:53:45 +0000

Nice advocacy! That kind of thing pisses me off. It seems like such a token effort to be inclusive, but 1 question among 27 (and on a survey you already had to hold your nose to pick) is not what I would call “inclusive.”