Athenae points out an article in which someone named HollyBaby refers to Angelina Jolie as an irresponsible parent for leaving her brood behind to travel to Dangerous Pakistan and help millions of little children left homeless and orphaned by the horrible recent floods. Apparently, it’s Jolie’s “obsession with thrill” that makes her commit such a reprehensible act. Go read Athenae’s response. It’s good.
I am proud of my mother who worked hard, rose high in her profession, traveled abroad for work and came home to us full of love and concern every single day. And knew all of our teachers and other goings-on.
The twit who condemns Jolie sounds like those who think working mothers like my own, and eventually me, should not ask to be upheld to the same standards of promotion and raises that working folks without kids, or men with kids whose wives “take care of all that,” enjoy. Basically, you have to be a mother or a worker, and if you choose to do both, you’re somehow diluting both experiences and ought not to demand the rewards of either. Here is a perfectly-manicured middle finger, that went to work yesterday and came home to mow my own damned lawn, to that.
