mommies who drink

[oranges]

Doesn't this just sound like what we all do?

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I bet they were told:

"We need to get more advertising from the big spenders - Lancome, L'Oreal and all that lot - let's rip off that Sunday Times Style mag but do it with even less care and thought - and then flog it to the women.

We can get cheapo journalists to knock off a few hundred words each months on why they hate their hair or their stomachs or their ears. That'll take them half an hour.

Then we'll bung in hundreds of photographs of nasty Burbury/Mulberry/Chanel/Dior bags/shoes/belts that no one wants but at least it'll attract the advertisers and it won't cost us anything. Chuck in a few mentions of the latest model and make 'em think she's something special. They'll lap it up because they're too stupid to notice it's a piece of shit. Bingo. And we can call it Observer Woman"

I couldn't agree more. I find it so depressing that the Observer has taken on the designer handbag agenda as if it were somehow the only meaningful way that it can relate to its female readership. Surely even male newspaper executives must realise there is something wrong when it is impossible to tell the difference between Observer Woman and the Femail section of the Daily Mail.

Thankyou wonk

I think from a totally pragmatic POV you have to remember that it's 'other kids' that are going to make up the society that our kids are going to inhabit. So it does matter. And I thought that comment was quite unacceptable.

However if she means that she refuses to make judgement about what people feed their kids, how quickly they learn to read, where they buy their clothes ...then I'm with her 100% as it happens. But some things do matter.

She said near the end of the article that she didn't write about how much she loved her son because it had been written about before. I wish she would. Because I think most mothers like to be both - good loving mothers and human beings in their own right. Writing only about the desire to escape the grind and monotony of motherhood suggests that the dichotomy is unusual and unhealthy. Which it isn't. It's 100% normal. As oranges implied in the OP.

Those of you who get p'd off with Observer Woman should read this !

That's brilliant. I love it.

Thanks UQD

I think I got that from someone on here in the first place!

I shall destroy them