It’s Friday and I’m Just Sayin’

I’m joining my friend Heather today on her new series It’s Friday and I’m Just Sayin‘… (I’ve known Heather in real life for about ten years now. Please check our her adorable blog. It’s pretty freakin’ awesome.)

It’s Friday and I’m Just Sayin…

If you are a woman hating on other women…shut your pie hole.

If you are a mom hating on other moms…shut it faster.

If you are another “mom blogger” hating on ME and MY FRIENDS…shut it fast or we will shut it for you.

Maybe not really, but sheesh. It’s been 99% awesome to be part of the I Just Want to Pee Alone book and all of the opportunities that come along with it, but with fame and fortune (ha! I wish) come the haters. Lately there have been a handful of very negative and hurtful blog posts, reviews, and comments directed at our specific community of mom humorists and branding us as “women who must hate their lives and their children and probably never should have become mothers.” Seriously? It’s totes obvi that you didn’t read our books or our blogs. Or if you did then maybe I’m just not for you, and that’s fine. Is it really necessary to take it a step further and jump to conclusions about our parenting or our morals?

I’m 90% sure this Amazon review is directed  at my piece in the book, which is called Potty Training and Prostate Exams. Sorry, Jen. (Not really) But, at least we know that Jen actually did read the book since her review is verified. For the record, 100% of my piece in the book is true. I really did freak out and take my first kid to the ER, a gastroenterologist, and a therapist about potty training. Only a terrible mother who cared nothing about her children and their well-being would do such a thing. Amiright? Oh, wait…

That one bad review is child’s play compared to what some of my friends are facing right now. The sancti-mommies are coming out in full force and feeling the need to tell us that we are offensive, horrible mothers and not funny.

But guess what?

I don’t care.

I don’t care because our book has less than 10 negative reviews on Amazon and over 200 good ones.

I don’t care because I got emails and phone calls and hugs from people I haven’t spoken to since high school and some I’ve never even met saying THANK YOU for being brave enough to be part of the group willing to to say it out loud and for making us laugh when we wanted to cry.

They say thank you for helping to pull them out of depression and showing them that the ridiculous things that we deal with as moms every day are funny and that we are in this together.

Posting on Facebook that your toddler is kind of acting like a jerk and telling the story of some annoying behavior so that other moms can relate is NOT the same thing as yelling, “You’re such an effing jerk!” in the face of a two-year-old.

We thought this was obvious.

Apparently it’s not.

I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree.