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6 Reasons to Hate Mother’s Day
- It was originally an antiwar holiday, but was defanged and corrupted to be about cards and flowers and brunch.
- It was originally an antiwar holiday, meaning you should be vigiling or writing letters to Congress when all you want is to sleep in and have brunch.
- The hoopla over it as compared to Father’s Day just proves how society still expects moms to do most of the parenting.
- The one time someone takes you to brunch, everyone else is doing it and there’s a 45 minute wait.
- Someone will always bring up the false idea that Mother’s Day is a top suicide day, in case you felt like forgetting to mail the cards in time or not arranging your day to plump the self-esteem of every mother in your extended family was forgivable just this once.
- All the attention is not about you anyway, it’s just about the part of you people have been overemphasizing since your first kid was born anyway.
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Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI believe Mother’s Day as we celebrate it was invented by Anna Jarvis in 1912.
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