I see what you did there. 
https://youtu.be/uw8dW9Hyno0?t=160
Old joke:
A guy dies and, to his surprise, winds up in heaven. An older hand is showing him where everything is but there’s this fifteen-foot wall right in the middle of everything. “What’s the wall for?”
“Keep your voice down. It’s so the Baptists can think they’re the only ones up here.”
Not all, but a lot of churches in this country believe that women’s only purpose on this earth is to serve their husband and pop out babies.
I won’t be doing this either. I don’t think it’s petty. She’s not MY mother.
Why would you wish every woman you see a happy Father’s Day? That’s just weird.
I don’t understand why you think the video you linked to supports your assertion.
I don’t wish anyone a happy Mother’s Day unless I KNOW the person. Maybe the person had a child and lost it tragically. Maybe the person is involuntarily childless. Maybe person was raped and got pregnant.
A little common sense goes a long way.
Yes, my mother insisted on not observing either Mothers’ OR Fathers’ Day.
That’s generally how I respond, too.
I am not a churchgoer, but I don’t see anything wrong with churches giving flowers to mothers on mother’s day. It’s acknowledging that being a mother is an important and difficult job that is often taken for granted, not an attempt to make women who are not mothers, for whatever reason, or whose mothers have died, feel bad. Thinking so is neurotically wrongheaded.
The OP should not hang around in areas with a lot of people from the Caribbean, as the custom there is to address most adult women as “mama”, the way some cultures address them as “aunt” or “auntie”. Took me aback at first, but then I got used to it.
Was that a specific video? I meant the entire channel.
Well, after all the venting in this thread yesterday, a day early, I got a cheery “Happy Mother’s Day” from a co-worker. I thanked her then gently explained that it’s not a happy day for someone with a dead mother, dead mother-in-law, no children, etc.
Good god can we find the person who thought it was a good idea to start a custom of wishing this to random strangers and beat them severely with a sock full of quarters?
But it doesn’t mean they’re either your actual mother or your actual aunt, nor do people from those cultures with every woman known as Mama [Whatever] a Happy Mother’s Day. You’re mixing two completely different things.
What was ēs response?
I’m sure it’s not the intent, but it may well be the effect.
My own mother was made to make a card for mothers’ day every year at school, despite the fact that grandma walked out when my mother was a toddler, and they’d had no contact since.
I’m sure the school was trying to do something nice for mothers, but there’s such a thing as thinking.
Wishing each and ever one of you a Happy Morgyn’s Parents Fifty-Seventh Anniversary Day! 
See post 19.
''I’m sorry - I hadn’t considered any of that. Those are good points."
(Guess being polite pays off, huh?)
As it happens, I had almost no customer contact today - between the counterfeit money passed on one of the checkout lanes (the ink said it was a 100 but the watermark was Hamilton), the failure to leave notes on at least one customer refund, the cash office printer deciding to run out of ink, and probably a half dozen other things I ran longer than usual with the cash office. So glad I have the next three days off.
And may they have many more anniversaries!
My Mom died in 2004, so every Mother’s Day is an especially pointed reminder of my loss.
So don’t expect me to get too overjoyed on Mother’s Day.
The mother of one of my students sent ME!! a Mother’s Day message yesterday! I think she must have been going down her list of contacts, it still WTF? I had to laugh. I was at my son’s soccer practice and showed it to the other parents.
I was orphaned during an otherwise good day so you can imagine my grief when anyone wishes that I have one.
Seriously? Your name is Dr. Crap and you’re taking a threadshit?
The world doesn’t revolve around your pain. Or my pain. What if you’re at a restaurant and the staff announces Billy and Susie are celebrating twenty years of marriage and your partner of 25 years just recently died? Other people don’t stop being happy and they don’t stop expressing that just because you and I might be miserable.
Apparently to a sizable percentage of the “Smartest, Hippest” here, you are a vile, unfeeling monster, heartlessly bigoted against widows, orphans and probably left-handed Norwegian tax accountants as well, and even quite possibly someone who thinks that a person who once accidentally sat thru 20 minutes of “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” on a flight to Reno and then turned it off and went to sleep instead of immediately storming the cockpit and forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing so they could report the broadcast as a Hate Crime just may have possibly overreacted.
How do you look yourself in the mirror?