A while back, I wrote a blog post about polygamy and I had some pretty strong feelings about the whole phenomenon. My biggest issue with it was the fact that, in the documentary that I watched, very young women seemed to be forced into situations that they had no control over. Additionally, I was very upset by the subservient role that the wives seemed to play within the confines of the polygamist family. This past week, I happened upon a show called Sister Wives on Netflix and I was immediately drawn to watching it. The show revolves around a polygamist family with a husband that has four wives and sixteen children between the four women. I wanted to see how these people lived in real life and not through the perspective of a generic documentary like the one that I had seen years before. Now, before you start emailing all of your friends and telling them that Tough Cookie Mommy is converting and becoming a Sister Wife, I thought I should write a blog post outlining … [Read more...]
Let’s Talk About Race
A few days ago, I was speaking to someone on Twitter who shared with me that a close friend of hers had referred to her daughter using a racial epitaph. Her daughter is biracial and her friend made the comment in jest and thought it was really funny and witty. I would rather not repeat the comment that she made, however, I think that it is important that you see exactly what she said so you can understand why it is so shocking. This "friend" actually referred to her daughter as a "nigglet." I'm sure you are as appalled as I was when I first read that she had the nerve to say this. I can connect to this, unfortunately. My husband has brown skin as he is of Cuban and Jamaican descent. My children are light skinned and have light eyes like me. We are raising our boys not to see skin color but it is really hard when people in society are so ignorant and biased. There have been many times when strangers have made comments about how surprised they were that my … [Read more...]
