Posted on 08/30/2018 7:40:54 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Spend a few minutes reading the definitions in the link below:
Big Blue Labor
My wife was a 'soccer Mom' and she is super conservative.
My son, played soccer for a high school team and a traveling team and played for three weeks in Sweden.
He then spent 25 in the Navy and retired as a Captain.
Your snide comment not withstanding, soccer is a real sport, and I accept your apology {for my son}.
Thanks for the links——I thought I was the only one who had trouble with that.
My daughters and daughters-in-law were soccer Moms,and then they became baseball Moms,hockey Moms,cross-country Moms, swimming Moms,and even a wrestling Mom.
The term “soccer Mom” drives me nuts.
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“A “soccer Mom” is different than other sports parents because she doesn’t let her boys play real sports.”
Really? Put a bunch of 250-300 pound football players on a soccer field ( bigger than an American football field), run them non-stop for an hour and thirty minutes with one break. Do this without any helmets, excessive padding, or other protective gear to speak of and get back to me about playing “real sports”. Indeed!
A perfect example of a soccer mom is a woman I know who was torn between voting for Hillary and voting for Trump. She wound up voting for Trump because a professional woman that she knew and respected voted for Trump, and didn’t buy into all the sexism accusations. But then she said “I would have preferred to vote for Michele Obama”.
The point I was making was that there's a reason the term "soccer mom" came into vogue to describe a certain demographic group in political terms. Whoever coined this phrase made a clear effort to avoid using a more obvious term: "sports mom." Why do you think that's the case?
I'll tell you why: It's for the same reason the author of this piece describes suburbanites as the most persuadable, malleable group of voters in the U.S. today. And the term "soccer mom" is built around the one sport that is about as harmless and gender-neutral for older kids than any other.
You'll never hear anyone use a term like "basketball mom" (or even "basketball dad," for that matter) in a million years. That's because most people -- even kids -- who play that sport would have their parents drive them to the local schoolyard basketball court.
You’ll never find me on here defending football players as “real” athletes. Put a bunch of soccer players on ice skates and let them spend even one 45-second shift trying to score a goal with opposing players knocking them on their asses. LOL.
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