Romy Boomsma has a heavy task
The 71-year-old Anna writes openly in a column about her great irritation: she finds Romy Boomsma a bad example for other women.
Purely because Romy full-time mother is and does not work. She writes among other things in her critical piece: ‘Mrs. Boomsma is a figurehead in the new mother cult: the contemporary culture that imposes on women to be perfect mothers. A kind of holy Madonnas, who derive the greatest satisfaction in their lives from breastfeeding, carrying their child, and preaching the importance of mother-child bonding. She has made her profession out of that. And through the social media that everyone is on nowadays, she looks blissfully into the camera in her perfect photos and silently expresses a value judgment towards other women: “Why don’t you do that?” I get very angry at Mrs. Boomsma.’
It goes even further, the whole plea. About the fact that she has nothing to complain about because her husband has all the money, which means she doesn’t have to do anything with her life except raise some children. That she is always at home to take selfies with her children when they are in expensive carriers that her husband has paid for her. And that she drinks coffee, all day long. That idea. Moreover, Anna states that she gives women a wrong image of reality, of the ideal picture, because being a stay-at-home mother is almost something to be ashamed of every day of the week. I don’t know what I read.
You don’t attack a mother of two like that, do you? You don’t attack another woman like that, do you? You don’t attack anyone. What pretty harsh words directed at someone who has probably never done anything to Anna.
Let everyone just decide for themselves what they do, what they want for their children, right? Money has nothing to do with it. One is not better than the other, after all, there are also plenty of women who are full-time mothers because it is financially more feasible, because childcare is just screaming expensive. There are also women who do work full-time and have children and are looked at strangely for that. Like: ‘But why did you become a mother if you send your child to daycare five days a week?’ There’s always something. So let everyone who is a mother decide for themselves what works best for their family.
More words from Anna: ‘Sitting on your butt on the couch, when you are healthy, is pure luxury. Mrs. Boomsma may be able to doddle with her little Aries, but she and similar ladies sell fairy tales and do other women an injustice by making them believe that this is actually the only right way to be a mother.’
Incredible. Romy has a heavy task, perhaps an even heavier task than chatting at the coffee machine with a laptop in the office for a day. The tone of the column is too harsh, the arguments are unfounded and even a bit vulgar. What does she know about what is happening in the Boomsma household? You cannot judge another household – only your own. Maybe Anna should do that better: mind her own business.
Romy responds on Instagram with the following words, and fortunately, she receives a lot of support and approval. She says: ‘I am so glad this woman is not my mother.’
Source: Me-to-We
Image: Instagram Chasing Unicorns
