Comments on: Feeling Minnesota

By: ladybughugs

ladybughugs — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:01:14 +0000

I think since you are young and beautiful it isn’t that you aren’t being noticed, but you aren’t noticing that you’re being noticed…what with your focus on ensuring the safety of certain little men that require attention to keep them from harms way. I find, when I’m out with my kids, that I don’t notice a lot of what goes on around me. I’m busy tracking them as they float in spectacularly random orbits around me and whatever aisle I’m in.

By: kattyposh

kattyposh — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:21:25 +0000

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By: RandomDude

RandomDude — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:27:27 +0000

Since reading this a few weeks ago, I’ve been trying to check out moms as obviously as possible w/o crossing over into “creepy” territory.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:51:15 +0000

I don’t think you are wierd or dumb for feeling this way. I feel the exact same way. There is something confirming about a stranger oogling you. Not in the predator way, but yeah…it’s nice to know that i still have my womanly-ways of getting attention. Too bad for me, it is usually just my D boobs. sighhh.

By: rms

rms — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:21:37 +0000

I feel so relieved,(RELIEVED!) when I read these types of posts from you that I’ll be okay as a mom, because you are so normal…still!

By: On sidelong glances and vitality | Single Mom at Work | Work It, Mom!

On sidelong glances and vitality | Single Mom at Work | Work It, Mom! — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:24:01 +0000

[...] Linda wrote a provocative post last week and since I read it, I’ve been marinating it around in my brain juice, dissecting it and then tossing it around in there. In it she wrote about noticing – and mourning – the perceived loss of attention by men: how it makes her feel frumpy, kind of invisible – and also kind of silly for even being remotely wounded by something so superficial. [...]

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:30:13 +0000

I was waiting at a crosswalk downtown the other day, and some guy in the group of people reached out and grabbed my ass. In addition to be startled, annoyed, and eventually outraged, I was also kind of smug, like, hell *yeah* i do have a nice ass.

People: I’m actually referencing a random harressing ASSUALT as something that made me feel GOOD ABOUT MYSELF.

Dear Lord, that can’t be a good thing.

By: FishyGirl

FishyGirl — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:50:22 +0000

It’s so not dumb, I think most of us feel this way. I was actually talking to my husband about it, and he noted that for a lot of guys in our demographic, their idea of what’s hot has changed, and it’s the mommies that have it goin’ on, and also that men have gotten a lot more subtle as they’ve aged, just as women, especially mothers, have their attention on other things. He told me that I get checked out a lot and I was all “You crazy!” and he started pointing it out. He’s right. The guys are more subtle AND it wasn’t on my radar. Ask JB, maybe he’d be willing to tell you when you’re being checked out, especially if you enjoy a, ah, increase in confidence, shall we say, when it happens? DH sure likes the results when he shares with me.

By: Amy Q

Amy Q — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:35:04 +0000

I am in the same boat, and you couldn’t have said it better. I miss it too.

By: trope

trope — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:50:39 +0000

Oh, so not dumb, I absolutely know how you feel… I am feeling all topped up this week because I met up with one of my high school friends, who blatantly stared down my shirt. Ta DA! I got ogled! It made the plunging cleavage all worth it, though I nearly froze off the functional bits because it was so damn cold.

If it helps, my husband cannot walk past my laptop without checking you out when you post pics of yourself with the boys. I will refer sometimes to “my bloggy friends,” and he will ask, “the chick with the cool tat?” and if I say no, he will immediately lose interest. So you seem to be hitting the toddler-dad demographic pretty well.