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Browsing Craigslist while I nurse Thaddeus, and I see an ad for an old Pentax K1000. I squee, because if the camera is in good condition it’s well worth the price listed.
My mom has one, well… she had given it to me and I’m not sure how the motherhell she got it back, but I figured since she didn’t have a camera and she’s the entire reason why I love photography, that I wouldn’t press the issue.
But anyway, I’ve been looking for a reasonably priced one myself because I really miss film photography and love the K1000.
I open this ad, still squeeing, and attached is my mother’s information.
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I just sent her an email in all caps, I had to notify her that the all caps meant I was shouting because she just turned 50 and doesn’t get computers, but why the hey hey is she selling it and why wasn’t I the first to know!? Just give it back to me! *harumph*
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Headlines: Word Choices. Are They Important?
Slate published an article this week titled, Why Working Parents Should Not Pull the Kid Card. As you can imagine, it generated a lot of interest, clocking in at just over 1,400 comments the last time I checked.
The mom-centric website, theStir, published a blog post about Slate’s piece but I found the title rather curious: Are Moms Asking for Too Much Flexibility at Work?
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I’m a bit bothered that theStir headline used the word mom when the article it’s discussing clearly talked about parents (moms and dads). In fact, the Slate piece even featured a picture of a dad. TheStir’s post did include comments from a dad in its discussion and, granted, theStir is a blog site whose focus audience is moms; nevertheless, there’s so much negativity hurled at moms that it would seem a mom-centric site would want to stress that it’s not just moms possibly playing the kid card, but also dads.
I’m not sure. I can see both sides for switching from “parents” to “moms” but, still….
What do you think? Is theStir’s word choice problematic or simply a reflection of the fact that its target audience is moms?
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