Comments on: Passions and Priorities, or Not Being an Übermom http://www.oleoptene.com/2007/11/02/passions-and-priorities-or-not-being-an-ubermom/ A blog for Mara Collins Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: blue milk http://www.oleoptene.com/2007/11/02/passions-and-priorities-or-not-being-an-ubermom/comment-page-1/#comment-289 blue milk Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:47:29 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/2007/11/02/passions-and-priorities-or-not-being-an-ubermom/#comment-289 Thank you for those links, reeeeeeeeally interesting and didn't that mother blogger write a terrific post, she sounds so self-aware?... as do you in this post here. When I read the lengths you've gone to to disengage yourself from the brainwashing potential of popular media culture and yet you still feel oppressed by the motherhood machine, I realise how powerful, how pervasive that machine is because it is everywhere and I feel it hammering away at the back of my mind too. Especially revealing was your observation of its gendered nature. How controlling, how needlessly debilitating of women this patriarchal notion is. Thank you for those links, reeeeeeeeally interesting and didn’t that mother blogger write a terrific post, she sounds so self-aware?… as do you in this post here. When I read the lengths you’ve gone to to disengage yourself from the brainwashing potential of popular media culture and yet you still feel oppressed by the motherhood machine, I realise how powerful, how pervasive that machine is because it is everywhere and I feel it hammering away at the back of my mind too. Especially revealing was your observation of its gendered nature. How controlling, how needlessly debilitating of women this patriarchal notion is.

]]> By: Marjorie http://www.oleoptene.com/2007/11/02/passions-and-priorities-or-not-being-an-ubermom/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Marjorie Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:05:04 +0000 http://www.oleoptene.com/2007/11/02/passions-and-priorities-or-not-being-an-ubermom/#comment-228 This post really speaks to me. That uber-mom ideal is so much more appealing to me that the power-suit/super-mom that it's really getting to me when I can't do it--even if I really try go easy on myself. For instance, right now, I just had to finish some blogging stuff, and I put on the TV for my kids. So because it's PBS, can I forgive myself? Or because I'm not exploring the woods with them, can I not? The father/man perspective being so different from ours really got me, too. Where are the hysterical media reports of the "Daddy Wars?" (I have tagged you for a meme if you are interested in doing it at some point. I really enjoy your blog. Take care.) This post really speaks to me. That uber-mom ideal is so much more appealing to me that the power-suit/super-mom that it’s really getting to me when I can’t do it–even if I really try go easy on myself. For instance, right now, I just had to finish some blogging stuff, and I put on the TV for my kids. So because it’s PBS, can I forgive myself? Or because I’m not exploring the woods with them, can I not?

The father/man perspective being so different from ours really got me, too. Where are the hysterical media reports of the “Daddy Wars?”

(I have tagged you for a meme if you are interested in doing it at some point. I really enjoy your blog. Take care.)

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