Please Accept My Apology

Empty Nest Parenting:

Kara Gebhart Uhl, who blogs at Pleiades Bee, published a great piece a couple of weeks ago that resonated with thousands of readers. She issued an open apology to all parents she had judged so harshly during her child-free years. I, like many of the 47,000 others who shared her post, had the proverbial been there, done that moment. But as I hover at the mid-century mark of life I, too, feel the need to issue an apology to all women who crossed my path for the past five decades and in the quietest, never to be uttered part of my brain I thought, I would never dress like that, act like that, eat like that or treat my kids like that and, here is the kicker, if I were her age. Well here I am, officially her age, and now it all looks, well, so completely different.

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Comments

[OtayPanky]

01:14 PM on 04/23/2012

I've read three separate blogs here on Huffpo the past week or two that all make the same point: Here in post-feminist America, women's biggest problem isn't men. It's other women.

Yes, there is definitely some place back in the deep recesses of the (heterosexual) male brain that looks at a woman and asks, "Is she doable?".

But there is also definitely some place in the deep recesses of the female brain that looks at another woman and declares, "She is despisable...or contemptible...or pitiful".

Of course, these are generalizations. They don't really apply to you, because (no doubt) you are better and more evolved than that.

Meanwhile, celebretard and fashionista culture continue to thrive, along with the ubiquitious mommy blogs - all providing the parameters by which countless women judge themselves - and (more importantly) other women.

[KIVPossum]

06:20 AM on 04/24/2012

No one will tear a woman up like another woman.

[OtayPanky]

12:00 PM on 04/24/2012

KIVPossum: “No one will tear a woman up like another woman.”

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I must say, Huffpo is an endless source of entertainment in this regard.

On the one hand, you've got impassioned women decrying the objectification of women, or the judgementalism of women by other women, etc etc etc.

Then, in the blog next door, you get breaking news about (say) Emma Roberts' "chicken cutlets"...or a set of pics of some model's hot body...or some fierce condemnation of someone else's opinion of "Fifty Shades of Grey".

I'll go make more popcorn.