Are most of you familiar with hockey moms?

mtnsnake

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Thu Sep-04-08 09:08 AM
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Are most of you familiar with hockey moms?

In a way, I hate doing this post because I love the sport of hockey so much. I live in hockey country here in remote northern New York , and hockey has been my number one sport for decades. I played it on ponds as a kid, love going to hockey games, and love watching it on TV. IMO, there isn't a more exciting sport. Having said that, I will give you my view of "hockey moms", but please note that my view of them is just of the hockey moms in my area.

When someone in my area says they are a hockey mom, it generally means they are the mom of at least one BOY who plays hockey and who is somewhere between the age of a 1st grader and junior high school. With most hockey moms in my area, it's sports first, school second. I have several close friends who are teachers, and each one of them tells me that the hockey moms are by far the most neglectful parents EVER when it comes to pushing the right priorities for their kids. Most people try to balance sports and studies, but not most hockey moms around here. Some of these boys are so stressed out with hockey by the time they get to high school that they end up ultimately burning out and imploding when they're teenagers. Many of the boys literally fall asleep in classes on Mondays and other days, too, because they're so tired from the weekend's hockey games.

Not all of them, but definitely many of the hockey moms in my area are as SHALLOW as it gets (same as their husbands). Should you ever have the misfortune of getting stuck at a party with a group of hockey moms and dads similar to the ones in my area, you will come out of that party feeling like you were tortured, you will be THAT bored. Most hockey moms in my area could not carry on an intelligent conversation to save their lives. What they are good at, though, is joining in with their husbands' banter about large breasted women and laughing at blond jokes. With hockey moms up here in my area of northern NY, it is men first and women second.

The hockey moms are the first ones to always complain (really brag) how they're up at 5:30 on most weekends taking their boys to hockey games on the travel team. They all act like they deserve medals for this.

Most hockey moms push their boys to excel at hockey in the most extreme manner possible. When regular hockey isn't enough, they try to get their boys on the local travel team, they ship their boys off to expensive summer hockey camps, they practically BOOT their boys out of the house and off to Prep School as soon as their old enough, and they PRAY that their boys will eventually be talented enough to make it on an NCAA Division 1 hockey team so they don't have to pay for college. That's what they hope for anyway.

Most hockey moms in my area vote Republican, but they know and care nothing about politics.

Many of the hockey moms in my area are fairly intolerant. There is virtually no black population up here, but Native Americans in my area are often frowned upon by hockey moms and treated as a lesser class of people, at least in their conversations. I've heard them laugh more than once about the inferior hockey equipment that native Americans have because those people often can't afford some of the better hockey equipment, which is so expensive.

Now don't get me wrong. There are some hockey moms who are wonderful nurturing parents and who find a way to stress to their kids that hockey is not the ONLY important thing in their lives. Those just happen to be the hockey moms who are Democrats.

Bottom line: With this constant banter by Sarah Palin of how she's just your average hockey mom, what she's really doing is trying to connect with the more well-off, white Americans everywhere, especially the ones who always put men first and women second. She is as divisive an individual as it gets. Newt will LOVE her. With people like Palin, it is still A MAN'S WORLD with them. Believe me when I say that.