wiscanada said:
Days of Broken Arrows said:
Just to be clear, she is NOT a "single mom."
A single mother is a woman who was left by a man to raise a kid alone. She is a DIVORCED WOMAN WITH A CHILD. There is a difference.
This woman is usurping the title "single mom" so she can claim "heroic victim" status. This demeans the women who actually rise above circumstances they were FORCED INTO but this woman chose.
The media lumps all women with kids and no husbands together as "single moms" for political reasons -- to make them seem "empowered." Let's not do that here.
This is a pet peeve of mine. It pisses me off to no end the way the media and feminists manipulate the language to make them all seem like hapless victims when they're the VICTIMIZERS, like in this case.
This is a good point. A widow is a 'single mom' and so is the woman who got pregnant by a jamaican apple picker that left on the next plane out of Toronto.
I have no problem pulling the rug out from under women who claim this, they'll say "something, something...its hard being a single mom" and I would say "getting paid to be single with a free babysitter every other weekend is called being a divorcee, a widow with a dead husband and no life insurance is a single mom"
I feel this is something important. Mansophere should introduce a new terminology and spread it so that English language would have ways to differentiate between different kinds of single moms. Perhaps someone should make a RoK article on this.
There are the innocent single moms:
1)Widows
2)Legitimately raped women who choose not to abort. (Some will debate the innocence of this)
3)Abandoned women
and evil single moms:
4)Frivorcees, divorcees,
5)Single sperm donor users
6)Sperm thieves
7)Professional "baby mommas" who collect "baby daddies" and their kids.
8)Divorced lesbians or single women who adopt children (celebrity style) (some will debate the evil of this)
9)Women who were technically abandoned, but that is because they were just plain insufferable. (debatable)
Too many shades for a single term.