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Originally Posted by shortstacker
Over/under when America renames Mother's Day?
Somewhere between no time soon and never.
Perhaps your silly question stems from a belief of the post you quoted, which is completely inaccurate. Just for the hell of it, I went through my history from the last couple of hours, and there were two articles that involved a parental relationship of some kind. Here's what I found:
1) Local newspaper article about parents dying in a car crash, kids surviving. Only "parents" used, which is what I would have expected.
2) CBC article about a school issue. The word "mother" was used four times, and she was never called anything else.
So, LOL sample size, but it certainly isn't the case that " 'Mother' is never used in regards to a person who can or has given birth, in public forums now, news or otherwise". I wondered if perhaps I missed the context since I don't see his posts and can't be bothered to go and unhide them all for this silliness, but just in case this was only in the context of stories related to birth, I did a quick search for "birth Canada", and in most articles had no issue finding the word "mother", usually several times.
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Originally Posted by chillrob
Who is against the use of the word "mother" anyway? I've never heard any complaints about it.
Pretty much no one. I mean, I'm sure there are a few people who have tried to make an issue of this, like there is on the extremes of any issue, but it's pretty rare.
But it is the kind of bogeyman that some love to bring up for political reasons. They're cancelling Christmas, cancelling mothers and fathers, blah blah blah. Everyone get outraged, we need to be saved from the zealots is often a great bit of projection.