Boobies. *heeheeheehee* Yeah, I'm that girl. Certain words make me giggle like a pre-teen kid.
Words like:
Boobie
Fart
Balls
Duty....yes, say it slowly and with the mentality of a teenage boy.....there it is! Funny huh?!?!
Ok, so the point of saying this is....well, I don't really have a point. Oh, wait! Yeah, I remember....boobies.
Breastfeeding is apparently the new controversial 'Du jour' of the day. I have written blog posts about it in the past but a recent post on a social networking site brought it all back.....breastfeeding and militant attitudes.
I don't care that you chose to breast feed your child, after all what else are breasts meant to do other than feed a kid - ok, so there are other uses, but they are 'supposed' to be used for feeding the spawn. And again I have no problem with it. But when you decide that breastfeeding needs to be a public exhibit, much like a "breast-acle" *see what I did there....spectacle + breast = breastacle!* and you bitch and bitch about other people's uncomfortableness with your on-display boob....THAT'S where I draw a line.
Breastfeeding isn't a team sport.
Breastfeeding isn't a super power.
Breastfeeding isn't group activity.
Quit seeking attention through whipping out a boob - if you want to do that, I hear there are special clubs for that. :)
My point is you have chosen to breastfeed BUT we the general public have not chosen to watch you.
In other news...
OSMW.
Military wive is NOT A JOB SKILL. I asked a friend recently (a woman who does the hiring at her place of employment & fellow mil. wife) what would she do if she saw that on a resume? She stared at me blankly and asked if I was serious.....since I am often NOT....and I told her was dead serious.
Her response was simple. She would move on to the next candidate and chalk it up as stupidity.
My thought is - do firefighter wives put that down on resumes? Do accountant wives put down that they are married to an accountant so they should be good with numbers? Do doctor's wives state that as a doctor's wive I should get a job at the hospital because I have been to a few.....????
REALLY?
Just how lazy do you need to be to put that as a qualification?
Let me put this into perspective....
Qualifications
Military wife
Survivor of 3 deployments
Moved four times in five years
What the wife thinks it means
Military wife = Its a superpower and only certain women can do it.
Survivor of deployments = Was on my own and didn't breakdown, multitasker, single parent.
Moved 4 times in 5 years = Organized.
What an employer thinks it means
Military wife = AND? What are your ACTUAL quals? Education? Job history????
Deployments = Uh huh. So you are telling me you get lonely and might have problems with childcare and making it to work on time.....awesome.
Moving = so I'm going to spend time and money on you....and then you will leave in year. NEXT!!!
I want my employer to see my JOB skills and MY EDUCATION. Not a biography of my personal life. I don't even mention the military home life unless asked. Why? BECAUSE I'm not in the military MY HUSBAND IS. Lord.
Laughter is the best medicine. And despite my frustration and anger that I feel towards OSMW's I love 'em. They are the fruit loops of life; in them I will always find a reason to laugh and be grateful for my own drama-free, troll-free, and whiny-free life as a Secondhand Latina.
WOO-SAH Sisters.
