The Bad Moms Club

Marie Osmond's Son Commits Suicide

This is truly every parent’s worst nightmare. Michael Blosil, son of the legendary Marie Osmond, died this weekend after leaping from an eighth-story apartment in Los Angeles.

He was just eighteen years old.

Bad Moms Want To Save The Whales But Aren't Quite Sure What That Means

You know what I just don't know what to say about? Killer orcas at SeaWorld. It's just too sad. It's sad for the poor young woman who lost her life doing something about which she was so clearly passionate (I cannot even look at the pictures of her hugging orcas. I burst into tears). It's so sad for the orca, who totally did not ask to be there and who was just being an orca and, again, did not ask to be there. (They're not going to euthanize him, are they? Please tell me that they're not.)

Princess Of The Day: Awesome Shoes Edition

Are Disney Princesses all bad? I'm on a mission this week and next to examine whether or not I can, in good feminist conscience, let me daughter squee freely over Cinderella and her ilk, so that by the time we get to Disney World, I know whether to stop worrying and love the ballgowns, or try to get Belle to read The Second Sex. Or both.

Today's princess?

Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Got A Haircut, OMG!

Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is cute and adorable and it's obvious that she marches to her own drummer. I've never seen her wear baby heels in public like Suri Cruise and I don't know the last time she was pictured in a dress.

Mind you, I'm not watching her day and night. But nor do I see the need to observe her closely to make sure that she's living up to gender expectations. I simply don't think that her lack of fancy footwear and sparkle and ribbons and tulle means anything more significant than that the girl likes to be comfortable. Word on that Ms. Shiloh.

Her laid-back style has, however, concerned some media folks. They're worried that she looks like - gasp! - a boy. They worry that her parents, gene-pool winners Angelina and Brad, dress her this way because they wanted a boy. Hogwash, I say.

Vladimir Putin, Baby-Whisperer?

Vladimir Putin is the former President of the Russian Federation and current Prime Minister of Russia and he is a pretty well rounded guy with a truly impressive resume. More impressive than yours.

Not only is he an experienced politician and former KGB agent but he is also:

Bad Moms Love Common Sense, Especially When Applied By People With Medical Degrees

From Gawker: "The University of Minnesota medical school has solved the problem of the 'embarrassment, stereotypes and concern about patriarchy and abuse' that goes along with teaching medical students to do pelvic exams. Whew!" Medical students at UM will learn to do the exams on an anatomical model - which, I presume, means using some kind of high-concept dummy - NO JOKES PEOPLE - rather than performing them on actual patients.

They must have read about that whole non-consensual nether-probing issue that we have up here in Canada. "Concern about patriarchy and abuse," indeed.

Princess Of The Day: Warrior-Girl Edition

Look, I know that princesses are controversial. I know that, as a good, card-carrying, liberal-arts-graduate-degree-holding feminist, I'm not supposed to let my daughter anywhere near them. But please: even if it were possible to get a Princess Vaccine with which to inoculate our daughters against insidious counter-feminist infections due to exposure to pink and glitter, would you really actually want to do that? When, for example, the Princess Canon includes young women like this? -->

Attention Educators: Looking for Work? This School Is Hiring

Since the inception of this blog, I have written a handful of posts about different school incidents in which I think that the actions of the educators and/or the institutions were, let's say, questionable.

Yesterday there was the teachers who performed a lap dance for their students, then there was the school who had a student handcuffed and arrested for doodling on a desk, and then there was the nine-year old student who was raked over the coals for concealing a two-inch LEGO gun on his person.

Today, let's talk about this school:

Bad Moms Are Patriotic: Patriotic For BACON CAKE

Does anything scream Canada more than bacon?

Okay, maybe maple syrup, hockey, toques, and beavers, but bacon definitely rounds out the top five. And both my daughter and I love eating eating bacon with maple syrup on the side while wearing toques and watching hockey, so, you know, we're a pretty patriotic family.

Bad Moms Love Lost But They Would Never Smash Lighthouse Mirrors Or Make Fake Monster Babies

This week on Lost: Crazy Feral Claire is crazy! And feral! And has an axe! Also: Jack's life is - wait for it! - different in Sideways World, and also, there's a lighthouse!

Spoilers ahoy...