So I lost my mother when I was 18, so Mother's Day has never been a big deal to me for a long time. But I saw a news article today with the title "Celebrating Mother's Day when your Mother is dead" and clicked it out of curiosity. It was a young (mid-20s) woman talking about how hard it is to get through Mother's Day when your Mom has passed, and how the holiday makes her feel bitter and depressed. I got curious and started googling other articles and the theme was always the same: depression and bitterness, society doesn't understand, ways to celebrate Mother's Day anyway, etc., but the biggest thing that caught my eye was how the author was always a woman. For about 20 articles, every. single. article. was authored by a woman.

Now, Mother's Day has never really bothered me at all. Sure, I sometimes get a bit bummed and jealous when I see a friend who still has his mom, but overall it just has never really affected me either way. But seeing these articles made me come to two conclusions:

1) Woman have an overbearing need to always be the victim. They lust for that attention and sympathy. Every article was an obvious cry for attention: like the author was screaming "Me! Me! Look at me and how much I'm suffering! Boo hoo poor me!" Now, losing your mother is obviously tragic and doubly so when you're a child, but it's cheap and disgusting when you use that as a way to get attention.

2) None of the articles spoke of men who have lost their mothers. Not one single peep. Society doesn't care about the suffering of men. But on the other hand, men also aren't attention whores who are always finding new ways of proclaiming their victimhood.

Anyway, happy Mother's Day folks.