Gwenyth Paltrow certainly knows how to stir up controversy. In a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar, the actress and mother of two steps smack into the mommy wars uttering the following:
I have little kids in school. I want to maintain my marriage and my family, so I have to be here when he comes home. Hence her recent advice to a girlfriend (who remains tantalizingly unnamed): “She is an actress and in a new relationship with someone else with a big career, and I said this may not be feminist, but you have to compromise. It’s been all about you and you’re a big deal. And if you want what you’re saying you want a family;you have to be a wife, and that is part of the equation.
Her comments have rubbed many a mother the wrong way, with some even accusing her of being judgmental and out of touch.
My opinion? She just inserted a perfectly pedicured foot into her mouth. Here is a woman who admits to having a nanny, a driver and a chef. Of course it is easy to talk of putting family first with those circumstances. But remind me again about the compromise part? What is she yammering on here about? Why is it only the woman who has to compromise?
I’m achy and I’m miserable and my nose is runny and hurts and my head is stuffed up and my eyes are all itchy and I can’t stop sneezing and I just want to do nothing but lie down in bed and pretend like I don’t have a husband, children and a bearded dragon all depending on me for food or they will die.
Why is it that women don’t seem to get the “lay down and rest” treatment like their male counterparts do?
I’m not sure if it is my fault for not claiming my comfy bed the minute I got home or my family for not treating me like a delicate flower.
I prefer to blame the family. (Easier. Here’s hoping they don’t read my blog.)
What is it about me (or being a woman) that makes it so hard to let go and REST?
Every week I do a column for Want2Dish.com called Tweet Nothings. This week’s focus gets my vote for mother-of-the-year 2012…
This story is so absurd that I almost didn’t believe it.
Seven-year-old Poppy Burge of England got a truly unique present from her mother this Christmas… a $11,000 voucher for liposuction.
I wish I were lying.
But I’m not.
The mother-of-the-year in question is Sarah Burge,51, a plastic surgery addict and self-proclaimed “Human Barbie.” This isn’t the first time Burge has given her daughter such a unique gift. Oh no. The 7-year-old already has a credit on her account for breast enhancement surgery.
Because that is what every second grader needs, of course.
Feminists – don’t even bother to try to get offended. “Shit Girls Say” is hilarious.
I dare you to claim you haven’t found yourself uttering some of the phrases contained in the videos below. I know I am guilty as charged.
The videos (which quickly went viral) feature a man, dressed as a woman, in various life situations uttering those phrases we women are most certainly guilty of speaking aloud. (“I know, right?”) The concept originated on Twitter via an account run by two Toronto comedians Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard.
Working momma. Flibbertigibbet. Family environs upkeep manager. Deadline juggler. Intellectual magpie... Random postings from a life of a working DC Metro mom. Unapologetically myself.
I have little kids in school. I want to maintain my marriage and my family, so I have to be here when he comes home. Hence her recent advice to a girlfriend (who remains tantalizingly unnamed): “She is an actress and in a new relationship with someone else with a big career, and I said this may not be feminist, but you have to compromise. It’s been all about you and you’re a big deal. And if you want what you’re saying you want a family;you have to be a wife, and that is part of the equation.
I’m achy and I’m miserable and my nose is runny and hurts and my head is stuffed up and my eyes are all itchy and I can’t stop sneezing and I just want to do nothing but lie down in bed and pretend like I don’t have a husband, children and a bearded dragon all depending on me for food or they will die.
The mother-of-the-year in question is 
