Boy Moms & Girl Dads

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Since when did parenting opposite-gender kids get branded as #BoyMoms and #GirlDads (not to be confused with "fathers of daughters")? Cristen unravels their origins and compares what these viral identities tell us about motherhood, masculinity and societal pressures to have at least "one of each." Highlights include: toxic boy moms of TikTok, Etsy merch, Rhianna, the Kardashians, a brief history of mother blame, Kobe Bryant, virtue signaling and angry dads at gender reveal parties. Send voice memos: [email protected] Follow Unladylike: IG | Twitter | TikTok Join the Unladies' Room Patreon Shop merch Contact Multitude Productions for ad rates, etc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Lady Life.
0:05.0	Lady Like.
0:08.0	A Lady Like.
0:11.0	A lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like
0:17.0	I've had a love. This is unladie like I'm Kristen. Last year was inargibly the year of girl, not any girl in particular, just girl, not to be confused
0:39.2	with October 11th, which is International Day of the Girl, which I would say is the
0:44.0	the spiritual opposite of girl math.
0:46.7	But this episode isn't about girl.
0:49.6	No, instead it is about the figures who may or may not have raised girl, boy mom, and girl dad.
0:58.0	And if you're thinking, wait, but boy moms just have boys, right?
1:02.9	Wrong!
1:03.9	For example, over in Slate's parenting column,
1:08.2	Care and Feeding, a reader asked
1:10.8	advice columnist Jamila Lemieux about her sister-in-law's extreme boy
1:15.2	momming. They wrote, My niece is four, my nephew is three, their mom is a
1:20.6	self-styled boy mom.
1:22.6	She openly professes that my nephew is her favorite.
1:25.8	He is her little man, and she talks about how upset she gets
1:29.8	at the thought of my nephew getting married
1:31.7	and leaving her for another woman.
1:34.0	And yes, the niece notices this.
1:36.8	Over on Tik-Tok, some even self-identify as toxic boy moms or moms.
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