11 thoughts on “Beware of Pissed Off Moms and the Internet”

  1. The most interesting part for me was that this happened almost entirely on Twitter! And it escaped me till the end, because I don’t really tweet all that much.

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  2. I read about it at Ask Moxie, and yeah, I was kind of offended. It makes baby wearing sound really crunchy hippie and not something a mom would want to do, while I do it mostly because it’s often more practical in NYC if you want to take public transportation or go to a restaurant that have a lot of room for strollers.
    I know you were most interested in the electronic age aspect of it, but I just wanted to affirm my offense at the ad 🙂

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  3. Hey, we were both huge fans of the Baby Bjorn. I strapped up Ian, put a wooly coat over us, and walked for a mile to pick up Jonah from nursery school every day for nine months. Loved that thing. Wish my kids still fit it in.

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  4. Well, it offends me that I have no idea what it’s an advertisement for? What are they trying to get you to buy?

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  5. I have many irrational hates that I express only on the Internet so no one I really know has to deal with wondering if I’m judging them (thus ensuring I maintain a social life in the “real” world ;), but one of those is carrying babies around in car seats. HATE.
    I lost the battle with my sister (who is 8 months pregnant) about getting a stroller that has a snap-off car seat. It’s not that I didn’t have a stroller, but I left the car seat *in* the car and lifted the baby *out*. Second child was a little different by necessity (running around after a toddler) but not much.
    I didn’t even think of it as babywearing or crunchy or anything. I thought of it as holding your damn baby. I lived on Long Island for my daughter’s first year and in Maine for my son’s, so it wasn’t even an issue of public transit.

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  6. Using the Baby Bjorn really did hurt my back if I used it for more than say 1/2 hour. I still used it (b/c a sore back is a cheap price for two mostly free hands) until he got big enough that his feet were at just the wrong level.

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  7. Offensive? Not really, except in the sense that it’s a bad ad. Just another example of Sturgeon’s Law in action.
    If you had someone trying to fit a seven-year-old, or maybe an obvious teenager into a sling or a Bjorn, that could be funny and make the same connection without condescending. “Motrin. For when those little bundles of joy turn out to be a big pain.”

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  8. “If you had someone trying to fit a seven-year-old, or maybe an obvious teenager into a sling or a Bjorn, that could be funny and make the same connection without condescending.”
    I had great hopes for it, but the Hip Hammock really is a pain in the neck, that being where the strap digs in. It also does nasty things to the back because of the imbalance. If I had worn it longer than I did, Motrin would certainly have been in order. On the subject of big kids in carriers, I once had a cafe appointment with a mom who sold slings and carriers to try on stuff. With at least one of the carriers (forget which), I was able to get a preschool child in and carry her briefly on my back. It distributed the weight really well (I think that might have been the Ergo, but I’m not sure), but I wouldn’t vouch for long distances. I think the sling seller had pictures in her catalogue of herself and a 3-ish or 4-ish child doing the same while hiking. (I didn’t get it myself, since inserting the child in the carrier seemed to be a two-man job, and it was pretty expensive.)
    Anyway, my point is that 1) baby carrying can hurt and 2) given the products out there, people can carry pretty large children.

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  11. It was really something the way the outrage spread. I thought it was a lame ad–but most of the ads targeting mothers are pretty lame and offensive, too. I say the Twitter Moms keep going and get them all off the air. 🙂 My personal favorite is when a mother in an ad acts like all her hopes and dreams have been realized due to a clean toilet… Ugh.

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