So what IS the definition of a soccer Mom, anyway?

[LaraMN]

?????
:rofl:

[Shell Beau]

1. A mom who plays soccer!

:silly: :crazy:

[Left Is Write]

2. LOL! Here you go...

This information was originally intended for Shell Beau, but for reasons beyond my control it was not actually posted:

"Though I have no kids in soccer, I would be considered a "soccer mom." I live in the suburbs, drive a minivan, go back and forth to school and extracurricular activities - stuff like that."

There was more to the intended post, but it contains an acronym I dare not say.

[Shell Beau]

3. Hahaha!! Well then you are right up his alley!!

;) You meet his criteria so my vote would have been for you!! :P

[Left Is Write]

4. But that's the thing.

Taverner is an adult near my own age. The...er...acronym was originally used by teenage boys to refer to women old enough to be their mothers (usually their friends' mothers) to whom they are attracted.

It shouldn't be used by men to refer to women their own age.

[Taverner]

8. Well true but....

Some of us thirtysomething gous DO find women around our own age to be wayyyyy more appealing than women younger than us....Just sayin'...

[Left Is Write]

9. Yes, but because we are not old enough to be your mothers...

the whole acronym thing doesn't really apply in this case. :)

[Taverner]

16. Well I thought it just meant "someone's" mom

Didn't have to be my mom ;)

Ewwwww....I can't believe I said that...

[Left Is Write]

19. No, because your wife is "someone's" mom...

but it's not especially titillating that you would be attracted to your own wife.

It's the idea of a young kid being attracted to an older woman (like Stifler's mom).

[Taverner]

21. Well I do have a thing for my kid's mom....

But again, I also have a thing for other kid's moms too...

Am I a bad person?

[Left Is Write]

25. No.

But a grown man being attracted to grown women isn't the same as the...uh...acronym thing that starts with an M.

:D

[Shell Beau]

30. Well that's Taverner for you!

;)

[trof]

12. I think the penny just dropped. MIL-something?

[tigereye]

5. I am about as far from the political definition as you can be:

old punk, black booted, drum-playing, card- carrying feminist, driving a Saturn larded with lefty bumper stickers. I had a good laugh about that when I started taking my kid to soccer at the Boys and Girls Club. I am a mom, but.....

on edit:
I don't really qualify for the other definition, either, I suspect. ;)

[LaraMN]

7. I asked in part because I was pondering this very thing the other day,

I'm a Mom. I don't live in a suburb, I live in a small town. I drive a minivan, but it's 14 years old and the back is plastered with anti-war and anti-Bush stickers. I dress pretty trendy- I guess- but I'm definitely edgier looking than alot of the moms with whom I wait in the hallway to pick my son up from school. I have no idea if I'm considered a "soccer mom." I tend to find the label a bit appalling.

[tigereye]

28. yeah it is kind of offensive in it's blandness

and assumption that all middle class women who are parents think alike and are homogeneous and following some cultural trend like lemmings to the cliff.

(how's that for hyperbole?) ;)

[tallahasseedem]

6. Those bitchy rich...

Repug wives who do nothing all day but shop and cart their kids around to playgroups and practice. You can spot one a mile away, espcially here in the south. One time one of them around here was passing around W stickers out of the back of her van. :puke:

[Left Is Write]

11. You know, some of those women who cart their kids around...

to school, playgroups, activities and practice...are Democrats.

[tallahasseedem]

14. I know that.

I am one of them. These women are a different breed and are very obvious.

[Left Is Write]

20. I just don't think that "soccer mom", by definition, is necessarily Repub

I know a woman who fits just about every superficial criteria for "soccer mom," and I admit being guilty of assuming she was a Republican. I was delighted to find out I was wrong and that she's a liberal Democrat.

[tallahasseedem]

22. I know what your saying...

I guess I am still tainted from the election when they were throwing around that term and showing all of those moms who were saying that they were voting for * because they were scared for their family. I have to encounter a whole flock of these women every Friday when I take my daughter to ballet. Im sorry if I offended you.

[Left Is Write]

24. The "security mom" label...

I do know a few of those women.

[tigereye]

29. yeah * is so good at protecting us!

throwing up smiley that I don't know the words for....

I can't believe that people actually thought that! Can you? Sigh.

[Taverner]

23. Nope definitely isn't

I know a lot of "Soccer Moms" out here in suburban San Ramon. They fit the description to a tee:

Drive a big SUV or minivan - check!
Have kids in the back seats - check!
Look stunning in stretch capris - check!

Some of them even being stay-at-home moms....

However, they vote DEM pretty often. You see, when you invest that much love, hopes and dreams in your child, you don't want him or her to end up as cannon fodder for a BuschCo war...

[In_The_Wind]

10. some people seem to think ...

that they're extremely sexy with a bit of an attitude



:shrug:

[StopTheMorans]

13. well, here's how I've always understood it:

You need to be a Mom. You can't live in a suburb, you should live in a small town. You should drive a 14 year-old minivan that has the back plastered with anti-war and anti-Bush stickers. You should dress pretty trendy- and you should definitely be edgier looking than alot of the moms with whom you wait in the hallway to pick your son up from school. Further, you should also have no idea if you're considered a "soccer mom", and you should find the very label a bit appalling. I don't know, I guess that just how I've always thought of it.

[LaraMN]

15. So where does the "soccer" come in?

:rofl:

[StopTheMorans]

17. i thought it was just a superfluous prefix, like "irregardless" or

"inflammable" :7

[LaraMN]

18. So it can be applied to other things as a prefix?

SoccerOverzealousAtSportingEventsParent.

[StopTheMorans]

26. sure, anything you'd like

:thumbsup:

[jmowreader]

27. What a soccer mom is, to me

A soccer mom is a woman who's allowed her children's extracurricular activities to take over her life.

The Soccer Mom usually drives a very large vehicle--a SUV or a minivan, if not a Sprinter. This is because she has taken on the responsibility of driving the whole team to games, practice, pizza parties and the like.

The Soccer Mom doesn't necessarily have a tailgate covered with Bush stickers. She does have a tailgate covered with magnetic softballs, soccer balls, cheerleaders, footballs and the like. For extra credit, the name of the child who plays the sport depicted by the magnet will be printed on it. For double extra credit, the kid's team name and jersey number will be on there too.

Last week, the Soccer Mom got pulled over by the cops. It seems that the huge "Go Tiffany Number One At Nationals" scrawled across the windows was obstructing the view through her mirrors.

The Soccer Mom is married to a man who brings home $250,000 per year but clips coupons and serves ramen for dinner twice a week because she has four kids and spends $30,000 per child on camps, clinics, educational videos and the like, and another $25,000 per year on gas. Oh yeah...they live in a singlewide in a trailer court.

The Soccer Mom wants to make sure her children have "all the things I didn't have when I was growing up." Honey, no one when you were growing up had the things you're buying for your children, like trips to week-long sleepover intensive camps for softball batters, because they hadn't been invented yet.

The Soccer Mom had her eyeliner and lipcolor tattooed on so she can use the ten minutes in the morning she WAS using to put her face on to search the Web for new cheerleading moves for her youngest daughter. And her hair is quick and easy to style--she gets a crewcut when she takes her son to the barber every Thursday afternoon and just wears wigs.

The Soccer Mom does all of these things because she knows it's the only way her children will ever get into a good college.

The Soccer Mom doesn't realize that the day her children turn 18, they're going to go right down and enlist in the Navy to work on aircraft carrier flight decks, where the stress level is a whole lot lower than it is at home.

[Divameow77]

31. I kind of consider myself to be a "Soccer Mom"

but not to the extreme, more like Everclear's "Volvo driving Soccer Mom", I was kind of wild before I had kids.
I drive a nice minivan, my son was in soccer (not right now) I take my kids to activites, etc. On the flip side I don't typically cart around other people's kids, and I don't devote my life to my boys activities and I work a full time job.

I only have one sticker in my window "I love America, I vote Democrat"

I don't think the label "Soccer Mom" has any political affiliation.