What is a Soccer Mom?

me

[RepubMommy]

My husband asked me this tonight and I could't come up with a textbook definition.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Also the bumper sticker Visualize whirrled peas. or anything favoring Benetton.

[Ligeia]

This reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw:

My Lacrosse Mom
Can Beat Up
Your Soccer Mom!!

[Rightwing Canuck]

LOL they made fun of this on an episode of Everyone Loves Raymond.

[Sgt_Schultze]

My first child was in a YMCA basketball league at 6 which had the same "fairness" doctrine. The funny thing is, the kids all know the score and who is winning. It's the adults who are stupid.

[cricket]

Speedy IS a winner; but so is 'Commonsense' who says as much; but in fewer words. . .

. . ."A ClintonlovingFemaleSheeple."

A special thanks to Rush for starting it all by naming this 'soccermom' category of women. . .

[speedy]

Why bother to even have goals then if nothing counts? While we're at it, let's eliminate the boundaries of the field completely -- inhibits the children's instincts to explore, you know. Yes, just let them wander aimlessly around kicking any inanimate object they see and declare it a wonderful achievment!!

I lived near LA for five years and really do love many things about life out there, but that beautiful weather really does infect the brain cells of way too many people.

[speedy]

Yes to Rush on that. Other than the ingenious term "politically correct" it is perhaps the most evocative and stinging political insult to come along in recent years.

[soccermom]

The term "soccer mom" first came from Time Magazine around the time of the 1996 elections. According to them, a soccer mom is a woman who is defined primarily by her roles in serving her kids (and husband). She often so busy carting her kids from one event to the other that she doesn't follow politics closely. Rush has since used the term soccer mom to suggest that these women are mindless and vote based on emotion. I consider myself to be a soccermom, in the literal sense. I am very busy with family/school/church activites and consider that my primary function. But I consider myself to be one who follows poltics and who makes decisions based on reason and common sense.

[tubebender]

I live in Upstate Ca. where we will cut the last Redwood tomorrow for the Christmas Tree on the town square.

[2nd amendment mama]

Hey wait a minute! I drive an SUV and I'm about as far from a soccer mom as you can get!!!!

[SugarRay]

She is against letting kids play dodgeball in school gym class because it teaches aggression and not everybody wins.

[speedy]

Chop away, tubebender.

[brat]

"An NEA-worshipping ditz who drives kids to soccer and dance lessons and band practice but who has no time to understand politics and just parrots back what she hears on NPR during these chores and fantasizes about being Monica Lewinsky"

Excellent! I would only add: and joins the Million Mom Morons to disarm law abiding citizens