It is extremely relatable, all the more funny, because they are men. And yet, something feels a bit off. You can’t imagine these men doing a similar imitation of their girlfriend screeching at them, stupid and beholden to her emotions. It would be an unhinged expression of misogyny.
There are manifold ways to make fun of mums. Recent years have spawned the phenotypes of “boy mums”, who have an Oedipus-like devotion to their sons, and “crunchy mums”, so named because they eat homemade granola and are also anti-vaxxers.
Three archetypes in just one city. Yet, in internet comedy, the depiction of dads is one-note. Dads can nap anywhere, are slightly baffled by their kids, and don’t know their age. A woman who tells us her dad got lost at sea when she was seven finds a letter in a bottle washed up on shore. When she finds it consists of a thumbs-up emoji, she exclaims: “It’s him!”
How can this be? There is safety in mocking mum. Because she was once an authority figure, it’s not punching down – and our sexism can be subtle. Most importantly, a mother’s love feels a bit more unconditional. Mum is soft; the word mumsy has come to mean dowdiness. An angry dad would be a bit scary; it might be grounds for some kind of family reorg. But an angry mum is just a mum. I’d like to think I am relatively “woke” on the gender stuff, and yet I catch myself judging how women I know parent – and just being impressed at dads for showing up. It’s sort of scary how ingrained the sexism towards mums is.
Some of this is justified by the screenshots from Twitter accounts such as Mumsnet Madness. One user apologetically asks on the anniversary of 9/11 what happened to the planes which hit the Twin Towers: “Did they come to a crash landing afterwards? Or did they continue flying?”.
It is telling that Mumsnet is still synonymous with the penis beaker. This deathless part of internet culture started in an infamous thread where a woman asked whether her husband’s post-coital rinse in a beaker by the bed was normal. The story should have been about the husband – but the lore came to be about the woman who talked about him. There is no Dadsnet that can rival Mumsnet for numbers or cultural clout – so mums are punished for being vocal in their attempts to do right by their children.
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The implication is that mums (like women in general) should be more detached and cool. But they’re also blamed if they don’t care enough – they are generally the subject of any pop therapy-style video on social media of how our childhood explains our attachment style or trauma.
But it feels a little like we’re punishing mums for being there for us. When I think about the ways in which I get irritated at my mum, it’s often related to her being too protective and too loud; the times she was angry because she poured so much love into my life and was hurt by the feeling I didn’t return that.
And my god, I’d rather it this way: for my mum to care too goddamn much than for her to care too little.
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