..terrible Mother's Day card

[greenchica]

AIBU to be offended by the sentiment of this!

Oh wow people love something to moan about don't they?! don't like it, don't buy it. I'm a SAHM so I do all the housework while DH works 14hr days. So for me, a day or 2 off washing up would be greatly appreciated.

I read it and thought it said 'dust and vag' so whole other meaning!! 😂

This really got my goat this week, seen in the post office. Infantilisation of women.

While men get useful things like tools for Father's Day, women are supposed to be overjoyed at receiving a soft toy and a particularly insipid schmaltzy one at that. I'd rather have a cordless drill.

I just went into Tesco and the Mother’s Day aisle was a sea of pale pink

YABU

Thing is everythings pink but you can say the same for fathers day, everything is blue. But everyone knows what their individual mum or dad would like so what do you want the shops to do lol. There is choice for kids to buy their mum or dad something different, it isn't forced upon you to buy anything pink or blue. Just buy you mum what she would want...simple

Thing is everythings pink but you can say the same for fathers day, everything is blue

Well yeah, that’s kind of my point. The fact that it’s assumed that all mums like pink and all dads like blue.
Of course they don’t know what all individual mums or dads would like, but why assume that mums are most likely to want pink things and dads are most likely to want blue things?
A little bit of variety would be nice!

What do I want shops to do? Provide things in a range of colours maybe!

Can't get that worked up about a card tbh

Don't then

How superior your powers of indifference are!

Eurgh, that would annoy me too. Cleaning is not a woman's job, in fact seen as cleaning products are much more harmful to women's lungs, then it should be men that do the majority

Maybe you should save your ire for when you actually receive one of these cards, seek? Instead of being mortally wounded on everyone else's behalf. If there wasn't a market for such things they presumably wouldn't be available for sale.

Not sure I'd lose my shit over it, no. It's a card and it's cute and I'm at home with my youngest for the majority of the time so it would be nice to have someone else dust and vac, actually dodges ammunition from feminazis

I haven't expressed any 'ire', but I will continue to direct it where I see fit, thanks! Should we all only give a shit about things that only happen to us personally?

In fact, what I said was I don't think anyone would feel angry with their child for giving them this card - unless maybe a teenager who cynically did so hoping it would never be cashed in! - but it's a shitty sentiment and a crappy idea from the cardmakers.

Of course, if there is a market for things and they sell, that's hardly an endorsement of anything is it? Or do we all decide our morals based on what the market tells us?

Well, I admit I wouldn't actually buy it, fair enough.

I do hate mother's' day. You're supposed to slave all year like a martyr and then be so grateful for a cupcake.

Good grief. When will this stop? Are we soon to be offended by other human beings simply.....being? Honestly I think some folks go out of their way to find offence/sexism/discrimination its standing to get out of hand.

I'd rather have a card like that, tongue in cheek than a soppy pathetic poem telling me how amazing I am. I'm not. I just try.

Statistics show the 'majority' of these roles are in 'the majority' of household, mainly (but not always!) carried out by the female or 'Mum' role. It's life. Let's grip it please.

As a single mum I'd love this card As it gives me a solid bonafide reason to do no housework for a change ... whether DD9 would take up the slack on the washing up, cleaning etc or just leave it for me to do the following day if I actually tried to cash in the coupons is a different story!

If one of the kids gave me this I'd twat them.

Eh? Why are there posters who think it’s a woman’s duty to do the housework? Fine, it might work that way in your household but is hardly the model everyone should aim for. If the majority of housework is done by women, that’s something to protest not accept. Fine, if individual women prefer it that way go right ahead - but don’t tell us it should be the norm!

women are supposed to be overjoyed at receiving a soft toy
Depends who buys it, that's the kind of present I'd get from my preschooler, and I find it very sweet of them!

We share chores roughly 50/50 here with DH, so it still is nice that my 50% share goes down to zero on my birthdays and Mothers' Days and the little ones take charge of the house.

Some people will find negative about everything...

Jesus Christ, I really can’t get that worked up over it.

This year my mum will be spending the day grieving for my nana who passed away 3 weeks ago. She can’t give her anything. She can’t hold her, she can’t tell her she loves her.

Get some fucking perspective.

Hear hear broom

Broom I'm sorry to hear that. But everyone can't be expected to decide what is problematic based on the fact that, like every day, people who are much loved and mourned, die.

If my mum died today, I wouldn't care very much about several things for a while. It wouldn't mean the people who did are wrong and should get a grip.

Unclench 😉