Those Who Cast The First Stone...

Today at park day a conversation came up about celebrities and about a few celebrities that you think are stupid or superficial and really they are nice people who do lots of charity work and are activists, etc. Then one mother thought to point out the fact that Madonna has now written children's books dealing with issues she considered to be moral issues when, in her opinion, Madonna is a mother that clearly has no morals.

This, of course, initiated a whole Gwen Sermon. In essence I clarified for her, and the whole group in the process, that being a mother is not an automatic shut off switch for being an individual person. They are two different worlds. Would you judge a woman's mothering skills by how much she likes to be an exhibitionist. One has nothing to do with the other. They are all women, don't they know this already? What Madonna does with her own individual person doesn't mean she is not a good mother. I am glad I finally said something for once. I sit there every week and keep my mouth shut and appear to be the good little Gwen that I can be for these people all the time. Sometimes they need to just get the fuck over themselves. Prudes.

Posted by gwendolyn on December 12, 2003 at 02:51 PM