Mother's Day Debauchery

I effing hate Mother's Day.

Don't get me wrong. Before cursing me out on how I am such an ingrate for not appreciating my mom, mother-in-law, or friends I'd like to make a few points clear. I cannot imagine the pain of snipping a part of their lady bits to facilitate child birth - for that I think mothers are brave, especially if they're doing it because it was an accident and they had to "man" up to their mistakes. I cannot swallow the sacrifices they make - career built for years only to be abandoned, bodies taken care of to fit in a bikini only to gain fat and not ever getting back to shape, relationships set aside because they caring for the family, and many more. I have deep respect for mothers, but I hate this holiday they oh-so treasure, that failing to greet them is akin to telling them they're useless and they should go cry in the corner.

This holiday has been severely mangled, and almost everyone's way of celebrating it is just wrong.

This holiday was originally meant to honor unrecognized sacrifices by made by women for their families and country. Women: married or unmarried, with kids or no kids. Maybe because of it's name, but this day has evolved into recognizing only mothers with kids - so if you had a miscarriage, are infertile, or decided on childlessness: no holiday for you.

This day also contributes to the melodrama of being a mother. For reference, there's this viral, cheesy video:

Please. If being a mother is difficult, where does that put people who work with high tension wires? Or the kids who wear imaginary scuba gear and dive into manholes to free up clogged sewer lines? This Mother's Day is a massive circle jerk, a part of the special snowflake movement to make a mundane "job" to anyone else but their families extraordinary. Look, a lot of people are mothers. It's nothing extraordinary.

It also relaxes the weight of being a father when the only difference is the latter did not experience the pain of childbirth. Society's expectation for fathers to be good providers is hard. And it's funny, because society spends 40-75% more on Mother's Day as compared to Father's Day.

Speaking of spending, Anna Jarvis, (the lady who founded this festivity) campaigned against this monster movement she created. She did not like what it had become - an opportunity for restaurants, florists, patisseries and women's stores to cash in on overly sentimental and sensitive women who'd sulk if their husbands or children failed to give appreciation. It had been reduced to a day of required greetings and gifts just so the drama is avoided.

Forget the fact that you can show your appreciation for parents anytime. Forget that there are people who sacrificed their dreams of having an own family just so they can support their parents and siblings. Forget the women who give their life to a career that in the end will help a lot of people. Forget the women and men who desperately try to procreate with no success. Forget the members of the LGBT who adopt kids who need homes.

Forget Mother's Day.