Just in time to celebrate Mother's Day (if you do celebrate Mother's Day!), this new documentary short Tidal Wave Girls, shows young women and men discussing the women who inspire them and the future of feminism.
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Many "aws" are in order because this is a shameless excuse to listen to the plaintive mewing of momentarily orphaned cheetahs. Just a reminder that babies in the animal world are waaaaay more grateful for their mothers, who somehow manage to keep (most of) their brood from being eaten on a daily basis. » 5/12/13 6:30pm 5/12/13 6:30pm

Fuck, you forgot that it’s Mother’s Day, didn’t you? And now you’re thinking of trying to play it off with a quick phone call and an impromptu recitation of a found poem you’ve cobbled together from an old modernism anthology that you only half-read. Your mom will see right through that, of course, and she’ll be pissed … » 5/12/13 5:00pm 5/12/13 5:00pm

Maybe this brief history of Mother’s Day (which owes itself to the Civil War) will inspire those giftless procrastinators among you to swing by your local grocery store and dig through the discount DVD bin until you (inevitably) find a two-disc combo pack of Gettysburg and Gods and Generals you can give to your mom.… » 5/12/13 3:30pm 5/12/13 3:30pm

A Mother's Day sketch on last night's SNL made excellent use of the excellent Kate McKinnon as the over-sharing, judgmental mother to Kristen Wiig's beleaguered adult daughter. Those of you who were thinking of getting your mom a wilted Teleflora bouquet should really reconsider, and maybe just keep them in your sad… » 5/12/13 12:00pm 5/12/13 12:00pm

Holiday origin stories are fun because of their Crazy Straw timelines. From a one-room school singing that Happy Birthday song that their teacher made up, through the twists and turns of history and economic recessions and cultural shifts, that finally ends at 50 Cent rapping about not giving a fuck if it's not your… » 5/11/13 5:00pm 5/11/13 5:00pm

Most greeting card aisle offerings are geared towards the nuclear family norm. Check out the "Mama's Day Our Way" eCard series, which highlights queer moms, immigrant moms, and other moms that aren't so Hallmark-friendly. » 5/10/13 12:30pm 5/10/13 12:30pm

Great Mother's Day card? Or BEST Mother's Day card? » 5/09/13 11:45pm 5/09/13 11:45pm

Ugh, of course Google went and created the sweetest Mother's Day ad ever. OF COURSE they did because that's what those manipulative jerks do. They go and put together a bunch of sweet footage of babies falling asleep and adult daughters telling their moms that they're going to be grandmas and a mother embracing her… » 5/07/13 3:40pm 5/07/13 3:40pm

There are bad advertising campaigns, and then there are bad advertising campaigns. With “Are You a MILF?” True & Co., the online bra company with the magical algorithm that’s supposed to make in-store bra fitting a thing of our shameful, barbarous past, has probably launched a campaign that’s just a misguided exercise… » 4/30/13 9:15pm 4/30/13 9:15pm

Anna Jarvis founded Mother's Day in 1914 as an effort to honor her mother, who'd founded a Mother's Friendship Day during the Civil War as a way to foster peace. Jarvis had included white carnations in the first unofficial celebration of Mother's Day she'd organized in 1908, and florists, seeing an opportunity for… » 5/13/12 11:15pm 5/13/12 11:15pm

Mother's Day is nothing if not an opportunity for politicians to pander to the lady vote, and this year the presidential candidates both took a stab at appealing to women. Obama, who you may remember believes that women are a varied and smart group, spent some time remembering all of the women who shaped him and… » 5/13/12 8:00pm 5/13/12 8:00pm

There's still hope for another reunion, isn't there? » 5/13/12 6:30pm 5/13/12 6:30pm

Orangutan offspring stay really attached to their mothers for a really long time, which could have something to do with the terrifying long arms that adult orangutans use to pull their babies back whenever they wander too far. In other words, orangutan moms are kind of a big deal in the animal kingdom, which is… » 5/13/12 4:00pm 5/13/12 4:00pm

The New York ad agency Mother is pretty much obligated to do something especially special for Mother's Day, and this year, the agency's creative minds have really out-Drapered themselves — they've created a maternal reparations form that's almost as labyrinthine as the tax form you just finished with not three weeks… » 5/13/12 11:30am 5/13/12 11:30am

Dina Lohan is a great mom and probably has the coffee mug half full of Southern Comfort to prove it, which is why her daughter Lindsay's career renaissance as the titular gossip incitor in Lifetime's upcoming television movie Liz & Dick comes as little surprise to her. "There's so many similarities [between Lindsay and… » 5/13/12 11:00am 5/13/12 11:00am