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    Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable

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    French Vogue And Ambivalent Modern Motherhood

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    Image of SylvanSylph SylvanSylph
    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    I like these. It's not real, people. It would be difficult to come up with a way to express that these women aren't interested in children without having some actual kids there for them not to be interested in. I don't think it's meant to be taken literally, especially the French Vogue editorial, which is 100% playful and fun. I imagine a lot of women look at these and think, "And that's why I'm not having kids," and not, "I am so having kids so I can neglect them just like that!"
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    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    I have spent years wondering what it would have been like if Edie Sedgwick had stayed in Long Island and had a couple kids.


    And now I know.

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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    The first picture is totally channeling Betty Draper. The second one...Amy Winehouse, if she were to get back with Blake Incarcerated! and spawn.
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    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    The one with the baby in the air is kind of awesome. I like to look at it and pretend she has levitating powers.
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    Image of HuckleberryFriend HuckleberryFriend
    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    I'm trying to pinpoint why these pictures bug me, and I think it has to do with all the women pictured as "bad mothers" being images of ideal beauty.

    There seems to be an implication that these women are "above motherhood" because they are attractive and sexy. Therefore, motherhood is unattrative and unsexy. We would never see these images with Rosanne Barr, for example, smoking and throwing babies around.

    Does that make sense at all?
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    06/22/09

    @HuckleberryFriend: It does, but at the same time, these are fashion magazines. You're not going to see Roseanne Barr in there, period.
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    06/22/09

    @BiteMeMitchell!: Right. I guess the point I was making was that you would never see this in a publication that wasn't a fashion magazine. "Bad motherhood" is ok, but only in this upper-class, fashionable context.
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    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    For some strange reason, the photo where she's smoking and leaning against the crib with the martini reminds me of "The Great Gatsby"... totally can't pinpoint why my brain made that association, but it did.
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    Image of Dottie Gale Dottie Gale
    06/22/09

    @wednesdayam: Good call! It's the androgynous child wearing white, and the mom wearing a look that says, "Damn, I'm sophisticated."
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    Image of deitybox deitybox
    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    I'm a terrible person, because I think that last picture is hilarious.


    And hey, you know what? She could have been out with the girls engaged in all manner of debauchery, but she's home with the kids. Drinking, smoking, wearing ridiculous couture, and home with the kids. DON'T YOU JUDGE HER!

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    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    If avoiding children/crappy parenting is chic, shouldn't Kate (of Jon and 8) be getting less shit from the tabloids these days? I mean, she should be seen as a sexy trend-setter!
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    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    He shakes his damn rattle/Spittle on his bib

    But I don't do the dishes/I throw them in the crib


    This looks like some rad cover art for the new Hole album, if you ask me.

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    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    This makes me think of Jerri Blank when she had to raise "Dizzy" and hands him an aluminum can as a toy. Among other things.
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    Image of SomeAuthorGirl SomeAuthorGirl
    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    I dislike the one's with Milla, to tell you the truth. I am sick of working mothers getting simultaneously glamourized and demonized while giving (boo hoo!) poor, harried unemployed dads a friggin' trophy for making breakfast or changing a damn diaper.


    Someone pass me a ciggie and a martini.

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    Image of angelheadedhipster angelheadedhipster
    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    Well, just look at Weeds and The United States of Tara (I think?) and a host of other bad mommy shows - we eat that stuff up.
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    06/22/09

    @angelheadedhipster: I don't see the connection between the two. Tara's not a bad mom, she's trying to do good by her kids. She has a psychological disorder.
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    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    Two questions:

    1) Is that Chris Noth wearing a snorkel mask?


    2) Can Gwen provide me with a list of these countries she speaks of, so that I may go an live in one? I feel that it would provide me with respite from nauseating diaper commercials and being vilified for not wanting to have kids.

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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    06/22/09

    @stealthird: Regarding your second question, I don't think being a "neglectful mother" is really the way to go in most countries in the world.


    First of all, this is from the U.S., France, and Italy, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing most of the parenting (neglectful or not) is done mostly by women. I believe this photos only want to shock their readers.

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    Image of marshmallory marshmallory
    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    But are the photos above so much better than these:



    I don't see why you have to be "edgy" to make beautiful fashion photos of mothers and children.

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    Image of Triphena Triphena
    06/22/09

    In reply to Neglectful Motherhood: So Fashionable
    I have an aunt who was raised in a manner very similar to the Italian Vogue shoot. She wasn't allowed to hug, kiss or in any way touch her mother ever, lest she get her "Mater's" newest frock dirty. I'm pretty sure the same went for "Pater" as well.
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