View Full Version : It's time for shows like Call Your Mother to end the trope of needy empty-nest moms


TMC
02-04-2021, 05:01 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/02/02/tv-moms-empty-nest-stereotypes/

"Happy, independent older mothers are few and far between," says Michele Weldon of the Kyra Sedgwick ABC comedy. She adds that "a prominent cultural narrative for American mothers is a binary choice of Absent Monster or Snowplow Mom. The stereotypes stretch from a detached, self-absorbed woman to a boundaryless dope, meddling and at times arriving uninvited with meatloaf."

king of comedy
02-04-2021, 08:50 AM
I hope it does break stereotypes.