What is real motherhood and how is it different from what many of us expect? The movement to deglamorize the "mother influencers" scene will explain this and much more.
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Meet 11 Instagrammer mothers who are educating the network about royal motherhood:
The floor without a single stain, the clothes folded and put away, sleep and meals up to date. This is the ideal of motherhood that influencer mothers try to portray as normal on social media, but which is far from reality. For some moms (and dads), this wave of positivity has translated into a toxic approach, causing guilt and worsening their mental health. (The Guardian*)
The so-called “real mothers” reject the fetish for the maternal figure and the perfect creation of children. Pain, fear, setbacks and setbacks are seen by this group as part of the process of raising a child. Some of them use humor to address their reality.
This photographer and digital influencer from Rio is the mother of Maria, aged 4, Caetano, aged 2, and Pedro, their first son who died at three months old due to congenital heart disease. Andressa calls attention on the networks for explaining, and sometimes almost drawing, how a mother's life is full of challenges (G1), even if the themes are still muted or distorted.
Its contents are good humored and based on real aspects of your experience of mothering. In pictures such as “5 things about” and “Take charge of your life” she needles the public with positions on topics she wants to talk about.
But, as a black mother Exposing herself on the internet, Andressa feels that she “can't go wrong” at certain times. Despite speaking and taking a stance on racism, she says that her “focus is to talk about raising my children beyond the color of my skin” in interview with the podcast Senta Direito Garota.
In her Instagram posts, she names each situation she experienced as a mother and highlights expressions of stereotype or maternal experience, as maternal support network, partner absent/participatory, non-negotiable limits, tiredness and maternal guilt, mental load, patriarchy.
In 2017, the English comedian Sophie McCartney went viral with a parody of the song Shape of You, by Ed Sheeran, in which he talks about the mishaps in your life as a mother. Sophie has two children, aged 9 and 6, and does several other parodies in your networks. Under the mantra that she couldn’t and “didn’t want to write a manual on how to mother,” she recounted her experiences in “Tired and Tested: The Wild Ride into Parenthood“, a work launched in February this year. Glamor in life with children is not a concern of the author.
In fact, she believes that 90% of her followers are there because identify with everyday situations that records on the networks, such as delays and disasters in activities with children. “Everyone has been through this situation and seeing someone else go through it makes them feel so much better.”
Sophie's book became a Best Seller and was awarded by the Sunday Times. “Before I went to university I couldn't find a guy to share a bag of chips with, let alone share my DNA with,” Sophie said in her book. And she adds that, after having children, “no one can afford to go out, because everyone is saving up for a kitchen extension (…)”.
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This post was last modified on January 3, 2023 16:40 pm
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