CBeebies Inspirational Mums… can you guess?

Oh FFS BBC 🤦‍♀️ do they have a special team somewhere coming up with these ideas or is there an internal competition in which employees vie with each other to introduce drag queens into every single story?

Were they even acting in loco parentis? The STAR house ran was a hostel for youngsters. If they did it was only short term. The house operated for less than year so not sure if they adopted the role long term, which is essential to being an actual parent.

Why the need to give the term 'mother' to carers who are not actually raising kids? It just taps into the need for transwomen to claim everything that women have.

BTW

The T in STAR stood for Transvestite a male who dresses as a female but does not believe he is one.

I hadn't heard of this one. What on earth is inspirational about that? I'd also question its suitability for a platform designed for little ones who still like Peter Rabbit.

The modern BBC is such a strange beast. Obsessed with drag queens and infantilising lgbtq content that doesn't reflect the lives of ordinary gay people. Could they really not have found more British mothers for this list, historical or otherwise? Just in my own little world, I know mothers fighting like tigers for their disabled kids, or helping their kids become great athletes or musicians, or having fulfilling jobs balancing with family life.

and someone who has little respect for their own mother

Stop indoctrinating six-year-old kids into queer theory please, BBC! Drag queens aren’t any kind of mother. Men aren’t mothers. This was a tiny list of inspirational mums. Why the need to centre men?

Oh how I share this sentiment...

Great post here (links through)
https://x.com/wingsscotland/status/1892498461716586542?s=48&t=It6RD9T0K5S8e_tSBOSX-Q

"For the BBC to honor men for International Women’s Day is an insult to all women. To honor these men as mothers is an affront so great that it is practically a declaration of war. No man is a mother, and no man should be honored as the woman he is not."

Four of the mums on this list are inspirational. The rest are not inspirational. Or even mums, in some cases.

They are reviewing my screenshot so not sure when you'll see it

This is a screenshot

100% - its like they googled mother and wrote about the first things that cropped up. I’m just amazed Taylor Swift isn’t on it tbh . (Massive fan and don’t have anything against her, just think it’s funny that her fans call her mother).

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250220070209/www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/inspirational-mums" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20250220070209/www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/inspirational-mums

As I'm sure others have discovered it's impossible to archive this individual page in archive.ph - it defaults to the main page

Edit: I can't get this to look right as a link.

Wikipedia entry about STAR.

Fundraising event for the STAR house in November 1970 (doesn't say opening date) and it operated until July 1971.

Interesting to read why STAR itself stopped - pushback from lesbians against transvestites!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Transvestite_Action_Revolutionaries

It's weird. I am in Germany and also get a very short glimpse of the article and then an auto direct to the cbeebies start page.
archive.ph also only has the main page archived under the link given upthread (with a note about auto redirect) .

Could someone in the UK try to archive the article again?

This strikes me as being written by an intern and not by anyone who has any experience of real life motherhood.

I'd rather have seen Dr Hilary Cass, for protecting children from harmful medicines.

And Nurse Sandy Peggie for standing up to a bullying male and an authoritarian system.

And while I'm growling, although I have nothing against either HW or SS, it's depressing that they have been selected as inspirational. There is already an issue with young people wanting to be influencers and celebrities and it would be great to encourage children to see women as professionals in their chosen fields.

The shared motherhood thing is extremely odd to include and the drag queen mother example is commendable on the face of it (however a poster above seems to know more about it and it's not as it seems ) but I can't see how it's relevant to the majority of the mums whose kids watch cbeebies. Very odd article.

The shared motherhood protocol is awful (I had to go and read up on it as I'd never heard of it). It is of absolutely no benefit to the child and is just to satisfy the vanity of the adults. Sometimes I despair of the medical profession - what has happened to their ethics?

This is awful. Who put this together? The BBC is becoming a parody of itself - why are drag queens in absolutely everything????

CBeebies is for little children. Why do they meed this nonsense? Even if all the examples were perfectly fine, children don't need this IWD stuff. Someone in the BBC DEI team had time on their hands. Just let kids be kids!

And they weren't even trans.

The most ridiculous list I've read in a long time. Bad enough putting Stacey Solomon and Holly willowhatshername on the same list as Maya Angelou but adding two blokes...

What an absolute batshit mental list.

What a disappointment modern life is again.

Aside from the rest what's inspirational about Holly W? She's deeply privileged and doesn't have to 'juggle a career' in the same way as most working women. It's not relatable. Referring to other women as 'the mummy brigade' is rather belittling.

No disabled or carer mums on the list unless I've missed it?