Have you noticed how pervasive it is to dis on “your mom” based on the stereotype that “your mom” is none too bright. Doesn’t matter that the woman standing before you has a PhD in nuclear genetics–she has a kid so her IQ must be just slightly higher than a bowl of oatmeal. So easy your mom could install it? Give me a fucking break! Note that it doesn’t say, “a Pollack” (or any other ethnic or racial group), or “your drunken uncle” or “your Downs’ syndrome little brother.” That would be making fun of a nationality, the disabled, or the unfortunate: clearly a NO-NO! But it’s OK to make assumptions about a woman who carried a child, fed it, wiped its shitty little ass, and taught it to say please and thank you. And if she protests, it’s like, “oh that’s just a joke, it’s not really evil like institutionalized racism.” Yeah, right. Tell that to the woman who didn’t get the job or was passed over for promotion because she was a mom.
Last year I took someone to task about this online. I would find their lame attempts to defend doing it (see this thread) rather amusing if it wasn’t hurting people. If we’re going to be politically correct then there can be no exceptions!
Please share out this comic to people who need to see it. (That would be almost everyone.) Dissing “your mom.” Not funny when you’re the mom. And besides, asshole, YOU carry YOUR MOM’s genes!
Your Mom,
The first day I arrived in Los Angeles, there was a CVS billboard that said: "Always working, just like your mom". I told my friends and we hunted this billboard down. When we got to it, it read "Open 24 hours, just like your mom".
It was completely mindboggling.
OMG Bryy! That boggles my mind too in a very dirty kind of way. I hope you've done a comic about that!
We all know similar elderly people, Tony. If it were strictly a matter of age the dissing would be gender neutral. The moms of some of today's 16-year-olds are in their thirties–hardly in the senility gang! It almost always singles out the mom as in "your MOM" as opposed to "your folks" or "your DAD".