Stop saying the Mama bears won the school board elections last night. We didn’t. And You certainly didn’t. It’s insulting, and it’s inaccurate, so just stop.
A mama bear mom is a woman who fights tooth and nail to protect her offspring. The term can easily be applied to a woman with a special needs kiddo, who learns as much as she possibly can about the disability and fights tirelessly for her baby to have the best. The term might apply to a mom in an abusive situation who musters the courage to leave – at long last – not for herself but because she is fearless for her children. A mama bear may be someone who steps up when times, or economy, or job is really tough, but she figures out – against all odds – a way to make it work for her kid. THAT is a mama bear mom.
A mama bear is not a manufactured politico who suddenly finds her own self-worth in an infusion of dirty political money tied to little other than her pledging her undying faith to a poorly researched, scientifically misguided and perhaps racially motivated doctrine. Stop given them our title. They are not nearly worthy.That’s not a mama bear. That’s a pawn. And THAT is who you put into school board power, America. Well done.
Many of us have been REAL mama bears through this pandemic. We have talked to our pediatricians. We have sought out credible information (i.e. not on facebook). We have made balanced decisions during uncertain times that took into account the ever-exhausting balance of our kids’ mental health, social needs and medical risk. We have made hard choices, and sometimes unpopular ones. Because that’s what you do as a Mama Bear.
Please don’t mistake some blonde, mealy, bored, uninformed woman who just wanted her name on a sign for a Mama Bear. She’s not part of our pack. Some of the “winners” – and BOY do I use that term loosely – from our local races last night boasted things like a “Christian voter guide,” and proclaimed that teachers should ignore children’s chosen pronouns, and let parents (who may be totally uneducated) decide what kids should learn. (I sort of thought they should just learn facts)
Others, like Lauren Nelson pictured here, grasped her pearls screaming shrillry (Caps were hers) “CRT MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO GRAB HOLD IN THE K-12 SCHOOLS. Teaching this ideology will bring about the destruction of our country, driving us towards socialism and away from personal liberty, free thinking, and personal responsibility.”
The destruction of our country, YOU GUYS!!!!
Maybe these false mama bears are pawn-a-bears. Put into place by those racist agendas that found homes in terrified, suburban white women. Maybe the sheltered and uninformed looked just unthreateneing enough that the malicious intent of the hate agenda thought they were a perfect nesting place. You can think what you like. I think that’s true. But what I know is – that’s NOT a Mama Bear. #TakingBackMamaBear
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