What is a Soccer Mom?

me

[RepubMommy]

My husband asked me this tonight and I could't come up with a textbook definition.

[RepubMommy]

The best I could do was say, "Oh so & so is a soccer mom" etc. Well, that wasn't good enough, he wanted a definition. So, what IS a soccer mom?

[Commonsense]

A ClintonlovingFemaleSheeple.

[Senator Pardek]

A woman who styles her hair like her 15 year old son's.

[nm_james]

a woman who drives here kids to soccer matches.

[speedy]

An NEA-worshipping ditz who drives kids to soccer and dance lessons and band practice but who has no time to understand politics and just parrots back what she hears on NPR during these chores and fantasizes about being Monica Lewinsky.

[joy361]

Yup, you just about nailed it.

[Commonsense]

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner. EXCELLENT!

[ohmage]

Now that's a Hall of Fame definition.

[RepubMommy]

An NEA-worshipping ditz who drives kids to soccer and dance lessons and band practice but who has no time to understand politics and just parrots back what she hears on NPR during these chores and fantasizes about being Monica Lewinsky.

Okay, I'll go with this. I really wanted to say to him, "its the fools who put Klinton into Office", but he says I always drag politics into everything.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"An NEA-worshipping ditz who drives kids to soccer and dance lessons and band practice but who has no time to understand politics and just parrots back what she hears on NPR during these chores and fantasizes about being Monica Lewinsky. "

Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding! We have a winner!

[speedy]

Thank you and the others for the kind words. I have a sister-in-law who is one, so I have been able to observe the characteristics first hand. The mythical perfect soccer mom would be that preachy woman in the comic strip "For Better Or Worse." She is textbook. One of those things I look at because I hate it so much. Can't explain.

[Stew Padasso]

Anti-gun, Rosie watchin' Clintoniod?

[ambrose]

A woman who drives a big SUV.

[Slyfox]

'An NEA-worshipping ditz' is right. And, when her daughter comes home from school and tells her that she put a condom on a banana in sex ed, Soccer Mom thinks that her daughter is very lucky to be in such a wonderful school.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

A Soccor Mom is a female who decision making process is driven by a liberal story line. For example a politican creating "FEAR" and then puts this fear on the backs of the children.

Is the media image beginning to emerge?? For example, to stop crime, take all guns away because gun kill children. Not stop criminals.

This politican has just grabbed a vote by manipulation of the female mind to protect her children.

In the last election, Male voters for Bush was 49 of 50 states. Soccor Moms for Bush was approximately 35 states for Bush and 15 states for Clinton and Gore.

Soccor MOMS are FEAR DRIVEN VOTERS.

oh wait I must get my bullet resistant vest on!! ok ready to catch the arrows.

[RepubMommy]

Thank you and the others for the kind words. I have a sister-in-law who is one, so I have been able to observe the characteristics first hand. The mythical perfect soccer mom would be that preachy woman in the comic strip "For Better Or Worse." She is textbook. One of those things I look at because I hate it so much. Can't explain.

That's exactly what I mean. You can't explain it (though you did a wonderful job), it's just easier to say, "Mary Jane is a soccer mom" etc.

[RepubMommy]

And btw, I am NOT a soccer mom.

[Sgt_Schultze]

You will know a soccer mom when you see her.
-She is the one who is screaming at the referee about some minor infraction (to her baby) only she saw.
-She is probably also screaming out to her child trying to encourage retaliation or unsportsmanlike play.
-She selected soccer for her child as a substitute for the manly games like football or lacrosse, which are too dangerous for her delicate offspring.
-It is primarily about excercise for the child. Notice the fitness of the child. If he is amply padded, his mom is probably a soccer mom.
-She lives in a large house in an expensive neighborhood. Sufficiently expensive to price the "riff-raff" out of the market. She then favors housing projects and section-8 housing in the middle class heighborhoods.
-She might even send her child to a private school but complains about a "lack of diversity" in the student population. To her, it isn't about buying the best education she can afford for her child, but about joining a club of enlightened parents.
-Oh, she doesn't have to be a woman. There are scads of testosterone-deficient men who could be best described as soccer moms. And they mostly vote democrat, which is why the press loves them so.

[Hillary 666]

Don't forget the Clinton/Gore bumper sticker right next to the NPR bumper sticker on her mini-van.

[tubebender]

This is off the subject a bit but It could be a trend in the rest of the country. Here in Kalifornia you may know they do not keep score in kids soccer as there can be no losers. Half way into this past season the league told my daughter and husband not to cheer for their son or his friend because some of the other kids didn't have any one here to cheer for them!

[Sgt_Schultze]

Also the bumper sticker Visualize whirrled peas. or anything favoring Benetton.

[Ligeia]

This reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw:

My Lacrosse Mom
Can Beat Up
Your Soccer Mom!!

[Rightwing Canuck]

LOL they made fun of this on an episode of Everyone Loves Raymond.

[Sgt_Schultze]

My first child was in a YMCA basketball league at 6 which had the same "fairness" doctrine. The funny thing is, the kids all know the score and who is winning. It's the adults who are stupid.

[cricket]

Speedy IS a winner; but so is 'Commonsense' who says as much; but in fewer words. . .

. . ."A ClintonlovingFemaleSheeple."

A special thanks to Rush for starting it all by naming this 'soccermom' category of women. . .

[speedy]

Why bother to even have goals then if nothing counts? While we're at it, let's eliminate the boundaries of the field completely -- inhibits the children's instincts to explore, you know. Yes, just let them wander aimlessly around kicking any inanimate object they see and declare it a wonderful achievment!!

I lived near LA for five years and really do love many things about life out there, but that beautiful weather really does infect the brain cells of way too many people.

[speedy]

Yes to Rush on that. Other than the ingenious term "politically correct" it is perhaps the most evocative and stinging political insult to come along in recent years.

[soccermom]

The term "soccer mom" first came from Time Magazine around the time of the 1996 elections. According to them, a soccer mom is a woman who is defined primarily by her roles in serving her kids (and husband). She often so busy carting her kids from one event to the other that she doesn't follow politics closely. Rush has since used the term soccer mom to suggest that these women are mindless and vote based on emotion. I consider myself to be a soccermom, in the literal sense. I am very busy with family/school/church activites and consider that my primary function. But I consider myself to be one who follows poltics and who makes decisions based on reason and common sense.

[tubebender]

I live in Upstate Ca. where we will cut the last Redwood tomorrow for the Christmas Tree on the town square.

[2nd amendment mama]

Hey wait a minute! I drive an SUV and I'm about as far from a soccer mom as you can get!!!!

[SugarRay]

She is against letting kids play dodgeball in school gym class because it teaches aggression and not everybody wins.

[speedy]

Chop away, tubebender.

[brat]

"An NEA-worshipping ditz who drives kids to soccer and dance lessons and band practice but who has no time to understand politics and just parrots back what she hears on NPR during these chores and fantasizes about being Monica Lewinsky"

Excellent! I would only add: and joins the Million Mom Morons to disarm law abiding citizens