When Sally Field made that comment at the Emmys - the one that was censored but nonetheless heard by billions on recaps and You Tube - about how the world would have much less war if mothers were rulers, I snorted out loud. Margaret Thatcher was a mother. So was Catherine the Great. And, you know, Cleopatra and Catherine de Medici and Isabela of Castile. Not a peaceful lot.
So I was kinda pleased when Patricia Heaton - best known for playing a disgruntled mother on Everybody Loves Raymond - did some public snorting about that comment. “I’ve actually become a more violent person since I became a mother," she said. "If someone came between me and my kids, they’d be dead meat. So I didn’t agree with that particular statement.”
Exactly. I, personally, feel that my propensity for violence has increased immeasurably since the birth of my daughter. Because, of course, I would kill to protect her, but also because I am often brutally sleep-deprived and worn down to my last raw nerve from having heard the goddamned Wonderpets theme song six hundred times. Which is to say, you don't want to make war with me. I'll go Bush on your ass.
