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.
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.
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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.
Great Mother's Day card? Or BEST Mother's Day card?
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…
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…
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…
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…
Last week, we asked you to share the story of the most inadvertently humorous thing your mom-figures had ever said, and boy did you ever deliver. From an impossibly entertaining comment thread came a veritable treasure trove of gems, and here are a few of the shiniest ones for your Mother's Day enjoyment.
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…
Unless you're a hipster and want to take your mom to Hooters for Mother's Day dinner with an ironic attitude that might be just as offensive as a handsy drunk dude is to your beleaguered waitress, you might not want to take advantage of the famous wing-slinging eatery's Mother's Day special: a free order of 10 boneless …
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…
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…
The ever-expanding resumé of notorious dilettante James Franco, today roughly the length of Infinite Jest, is pretty easy to explain: Adderall. Now we learn that it's actually his super-supportive mom Betsy. And Adderall.
In honor of Mother's Day, Elle Magazine has compiled a slideshow of celebrities' mom tales, and damned if Sexiest Woman of All Time Jennifer Aniston wasn't served the matriarchal humblebrag to beat all back when she was a kid:
Celebrate Mother's Day tomorrow with this compilation of some good advice by television matrons such as Betty Draper, Lucille Bluth, Nancy Botwin, Marge Simpson, Clair Huxtable, and the creepy doll that looks like George Costanza's mom. I promise you, hearing January Jones deliver that "bang your head against the wall"…
Mother's Day is on Sunday which means many of us are scrambling for last minute gift ideas. Have you gotten desperate enough to visit Etsy and blindly type "mother's day" into their search engine? You ought to try it, though not for your mom's sake (she'll get a phone call and she'll like it). No, you should try it…
The first question we might be asking about this terribly misguided ad from Mr. Clean is what sort of weird, Oedipal relationship does a son have with his mother where he dresses like the Brawny towel paper dude's less brawny younger brother in order to clean mom's house? Thankfully, Mr. Clean doesn't want sons to…
It's Mother's Day on Sunday, which means that after you get done hastily googling "FLOWER DELIVERY (name of where your mom lives)" we'd like you to take a few minutes to reflect on your relationship with the woman who raised you, and the unintentionally hilarious shit she's said to you as she tried to whittle you into…
Consider SNL's parodic Amazon commercial a cautionary tale about bringing your mom breakfast in bed next Sunday — don't invade her private boudoir of onanism just to give her a platter of burned toast and orange juice from concentrate, because the half-hearted gesture won't erase a year's worth of filial apathy and…
According to the New York Post, the day after Mother's Day is the "second most popular day" women will want to cheat on you —or at the very least will think about it all day long while sipping a glass of Franzia— if they feel like they're feeling neglected or taken for granted.
Did you know that 48% of people on Facebook are friends with their mother? Or that Americans buy 140 million cards each Mother's Day — when there are only 83 million mothers in the country?
From sex and fiber to golden rules, it's time to give credit where it's due. Herewith, ten random lessons that I'll always take with me.
In honor of Sunday, The Forward offers up a supercut of Hollywood's best interpretations of motherhood. So many of these iconic roles have stuck with us through the years — who is your favorite movie mom?
