Does this sound like a ridiculous barking dog to anyone else? Yes, Discovery Health's Baby Madness, billed as the mom's alternative to basketball's Final Four.
Because of course I would never want to watch basketball. Because I am a girl. And I like babies. Ha! Ha! Babies! Cute.
Not basketball. Not like my husband probably decided I was the one for him due to my excellent trash talk the first year we were dating, when my school met his in the first round (the same year, I might add, I won a statewide journalism award for a sports story I worked on). Not like I spent much of last year's tourney several notches ahead of my best guy friend in his own tournament pool. And I'm not even especially a sports fan.
No, I forget my place, I am a woman and a a mother and so of course I would rather watch babies do cute things on television (because hanging with my own cute baby and his cute preschooler sister all day long is apparently not quite enough of watching kids. Ha! Ha! Chicks! We can’t get enough babies!).
Not only do we ladies like babies, not basketball, we also like "celebrities" even if they are so D-list I can't even use the word without the snarky little quotes. Because this gem of counterprogramming also gifts us with advice and observations from "celebrity" moms of multiples Kate Gosselin (of "Jon and Kate Plus 8") and, wait for it, Michelle Duggar (on second thought, not even going there).
But still. Is it too much to ask that we stay away from stupid gender stereotypes? From assuming that because you're pitching a program to, say, mothers that we're all cute and fluffy and girly and baby-crazy would sooner get advice from Michelle Duggar (oops) than watch hoops?
