Silly Sally Field doesn’t speak for me
Update: Another mother Sally Field doesn’t speak for: Ginger Gilbert, wife of downed pilot Maj. Troy Gilbert, who blasted the media and morale-undermining anti-war forces for using al Qaeda video of her husband’s desecrated body “as a political catalyst to generate anti-war sentiment.”
Update: Patricia Heaton, on the other hand, does speak for me.
Blundering moonbat Sally Field inspired my column this week:
Like actress Sally Field, I am a mom. Unlike Sally Field, I do not live in La-La Land. We breathe a different brand of oxygen. We hold diametrically opposed worldviews. We have nothing in common but stretch marks.
Contrary to tongue-tied Sally’s incoherent Primetime Emmy Awards diatribe, childbearing and childrearing experiences do not bond all women in a universal sorority of non-confrontation. There are sheep moms. There are lion moms. We know which kind Sally Field is.
“If mothers ruled the, ruled the world, there would be no god-damned wars in the first place,” Field bleated. In the Gidget Guide to Parenting, mothers are appeasers and hand-holders. Our maternal instincts supposedly lead us to shun fights and coddle bullies instead of disciplining them.
There would be “no god-damned wars,” Silly Sally, because we’d all be conquered chattel if Field Diplomacy “ruled the world.”
Motherhood and peace-making are not synonymous. Motherhood requires ferocity, the will and resolve to protect one’s own children at all costs, and a life-long commitment to sacrifice for a family’s betterment and survival. Conflict avoidance is incompatible with good mothering.
On the playground of life, Sally Field is the mom who looks the other way when the brat on the elementary school slide pushes your son to the ground or throws dirt in your daughter’s face.
She’s the mom who holds her tongue at the mall when thugs spew profanities and make crude gestures in front of her brood. She’s the mom who tells her child never to point out when a teacher gets her facts wrong.
She’s the mom who buys her teenager beer, condoms and a hotel room on prom night, because she’d rather give in than assert her parental authority and do battle.
She’s the mom whose minivan sports insipid bumper stickers preaching non-intervention at all costs: “Peace is patriotic.” “War is not the answer.” “It Will Be a Great Day When Our Schools Get All the Money They Need and the Air Force Has to Hold a Bake Sale to Buy a Bomber.”
Hollywood can afford to indulge Sally Field’s inarticulate naivete. America cannot. And the very moms that Sally Field claims to speak for know it.
This weekend, I met dozens of military mothers in Washington, D.C., who fervently oppose the Sally Field/Cindy Sheehan model of maternal submission and immediate surrender. They were among several thousand grass-roots activists who turned out for the “Gathering of Eagles” counter-demonstration on the National Mall.
Deborah Johns, mother of William, a Marine who has served three tours of duty in Iraq, condemned the Left’s demonization of Gen. David Petraeus and urged Congress to oppose a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq. “Cindy Sheehan doesn’t speak for me,” Johns said. “She has never spoken for me. And she will never speak for me. . . . We are not going to let the domestic enemies at home defeat us like they did” during the Vietnam War.
Debbie Lee, mother of Mark, the first Navy SEAL killed in Iraq, rejected the anti-war movement’s infantilization of the troops. She was galled at the George Soros-funded ANSWER “die-in” usurping the names and legacies of those who have died serving in Iraq. Describing her son’s heroism and her support of the counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq, she said: “You can’t ‘take’ someone’s life who gives it . . . and Mark willingly gave his life. . . . God redeployed Mark to heaven.”
In Sally World, these mothers and their sons are helpless victims. In Sally World, self-defense is for “war-mongers.” In Sally World, you can pretend that the bloodthirsty mothers who strap al Qaeda suicide bomb vests on their toddlers and sit them down in front of the television to watch the Jew-hating Hamas Mickey Mouse don’t exist. In Sally World, you need only to embrace our enemies, “imagine” peace and rub your Emmy Award like a magic lamp as you wish global jihad away.
In the real world, not all women think with their wombs instead of their brains. In the real world, you can’t just give evil a “time-out.” Sally Field fancies herself the mother of all spokesmothers. To which I say, in my most maternally combative tone: Speak for your own bleepin’ self, sister.
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Like a mother bear protecting her cubs!
Great article Michelle.
No, “tongue tied Sally” doesn’t speak for me. It appears that she can barely speak for herself.
Dear Lion Mom, you are the greatest. Woe be tide to the person in your way when the claws are out! We love you Michelle! Praying for you as we know the battle can take its toll.
She should be thanking her lucky stars her speech didnt have to be spoken in German or Japanese. Another Hollywood brain donor
MM writes:
Precisely how do you come on this information? Do you know something about Sally Field, maybe from People Magazine?
Most likely you are passing off your ad hominem (ad feminam) fantasies about people you disagree with as fact.
What a tool, there’s no way she forgot her “money” line. Total act and poor one at best. Take her Emmy er’ Door-Stop back, lol.
“I’ve actually become a more violent person since I became a mother, If someone came between me and my kids, they’d be dead meat. So I didn’t agree with that particular statement.”
- Former Everybody Loves Raymond star, Republican Patricia Heaton
Gotta love her!
I’ve found that the moms who live in SallyWorld are the moms who are uneducated about current events and have no grasp on World (or even American) History. The sad thing is that they don’t even want to know. They stick their fingers in their ears and say “la-la-la-la” — as if that will make everything go away. We can only hope that the ones who actually recognize a threat will educate themselves about it. As a mom of a beautiful 7yo daughter, I cannot imagine just ignoring things that threaten her future and, quite possibly, her very existance. It’s mind-boggling! No, Gidget, you do not speak for me.
Amen! I love Patricia Heaton. She is an actress I can respect.
Keep in mind that, in Sally Fields’ world, most moms delegate parenting to nannies and assistants, so they have NO real idea of what it’s like to be a mom 24/7/365.
You’re foolish if you think I’m going to choose pacifism over fighting when my children’s futures are at stake. Which they are, if the jihadists have their way.
As they showed on 9/11, and on a daily basis in Muslim nations, they have no problem killing children to further their agenda.
And as Patricia said, you come between me and my children and you’re dead meat.
First, The calling of a mother is an honorable mission in life.
Second, if Sally Fields believes that if mothers ruled the world that there would be no wars, tell her to spend some time in the real world and observe the anry Mom who will plot her revenge for the pettiest of acts and exact it with military efficiency.
No, I think Sally should stay in Gidget Land for awhile longer. She’s not quite ready for prime time.
lgm:
This
is called metaphor or hyperbole, not fact.
And it is accurate. Based on Fields’ presumption that Moms shouldn’t (or won’t) fight to preserve their safety – as she said in her speech – she would do nothing if a bully on the playground was harrassing kids.
That would, after all, be “fighting” and mom’s just can’t do that!
Dear Sally,
Have you ever heard of Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth and a little place called the Falklands?
Maybe you are unfamiliar with the story of Queen Boudica?
There are others, but just like you Sally, they are history.
Right on! Give me a “lion mom” every single time.
Based on seeing with my own eyes and hearing with my own ears soccer moms are lion moms and then some. Not to mention Hot.
Slow, solo hand-clapping… gradually swelling to a deafening chorus of applause! Bravo Michelle, BRAVO!!
Can’t argue with that . . .Isn’t Sally Field the same actress who played the protective mom in ‘Not without my daughter’?
Her character understood the enemy well then . . .guess the script is long gone from her memory. Pity.
Sister Bertrill (?) should have caught that southefrn wind long ago. Oh well. Thankfully we have women in this world like you Michelle. Wonderful article, to the point. Moms need to speak up to protect their young ones. And yes, if that means getting mad and fighting. These left wing nut jobs give in to everything…..everything. Spineless wimps with no vision of what’s in front of them. I think that sad.
Ohhh! Ummmmm!!! Ummmm!!!
Shut up everyone I’m trying to post a comment!! OOOHHH!! Ummm!!
What a babbling idiot. Good heavens.
Super Column MM.
Someone should teach Sally some history: specifically, the story of Boudica.
My own dear mother started out as a “sheep mom”. Told me to ignore bullies because I was smarter than them, and to try to use my wits to make friends and deflect the barbs of the mean kids. There was no shortage of bullies and mean kids in our working-class neighborhood in Queens. To be fair, it was the 60’s and my mom was kinda artsy. You can imagine how my first year of school went. When I was about 8, she saw me get pushed to the ground in our courtyard. She went from sheep mom to lion mom that afternoon. When I came home, she told me that the next time someone pushed me, to push back harder! Sure enough, the next push I got was returned with a punch in the nose, and no one bothered me again. I went from prey to too-dangerous-to-mess-with in short order.
Surprising that leftists seem never to have learned these simple childhood lessons.
Nothing like a lion mom (until they turn on you – dern hormones!).
englishqueen01, I think I love you (metaphorically speaking of course). You just have a way of smacking down a troll like our other lion mom – Michelle – that makes me ROFL. Of course, I am sure it was not much of a test of your real capabilities!
GOD Bless all of the lion moms!
Outstanding Michelle. As a fellow lion Mom, I totally agree. The “sit back and do nothing Moms” end up doing more harm than good. History bears this out. Sadly, liberals don’t appear to read or comprehend history so they never learn its lessons.
lgm states:
Ms. Field reveals herself as just the sort of mom MM describes everytime she opens her mouth. I, unfortunately have had to suffer through the indignity of watching her “act” on her stupid show every once in a while because my wife thought it was entertaining. I get sick and tired of week after week of Sally’s character bleating on about the war and poverty and blah blah…every DNC talking point you can come up with. Since her well publicized idiocy, my wife has decided it’s not THAT good of a show. Hooray! I don’t have to watch it any more!!
By the way, does Boniva cause Tourette’s Syndrome???????
And then apparently there are some moms who deliberately feed their children to the wolves and vultures.
I’m very very shocked at Sally, whose mom was married to Jock Mahoney, famous stuntman and coordinator and also famous actor, adept in westerns action movies and also as Tarzan – never sturck me as a wimp.
In Sally’s early years, she never struck me as someone too wimpy to take up for herself, either!
I found her bio in IMDB to be ~strange~.
But on top of whatever else, it appears she went searching amongst the feminazis of Hollywood for her validation and recognition.
Too sad. Way too sad.
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THEY know the lessons – they just don’t want YOU TO, so when THEY BULLY YOU, they are SAFER!
Remember – they NEVER live by the rules they establish for OTHERS! They are just trying to establish rules for OTHERS that make their own predatory activities easier to get by with!
On September 19th, 2007 at 10:25 am, max said:
Slow, solo hand-clapping… gradually swelling to a deafening chorus of applause! Bravo Michelle, BRAVO!!
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MEGA DITTOS AND JOINING IN! BRAVO, MICHELLE, BRAVO!!!
Great article Michelle, tells it just he way it is in reality. Thank You!
Thanks, Soap. I love you, too (metaphorically speaking, of course!)
And this:
made my day! It’s been a long week.
It’s hard to know where to begin with this one.
Watching her babbling, I had to wonder whether Fields was drunk or something. But her rant went right down the checklist of classic liberal thinking:
1. Born of ignorance: Check.
2. Focused on irrelevancy: Check.
3. Steeped in wishful thinking: Check.
As others have alluded to in this thread, the fact that a leader is a woman is no guarantee of docility in foreign affairs, from ancient times to the present. In fact, it’s easier to think of historical female leaders who led their nations in war vs. the ones who didn’t:
Notable wartime female leaders:
- Cleopatra
- Boudicca
- Xenobia
- Catherine the Great
- Queen Elizabeth
- Golda Meir
- Indira Ghandi
- Margaret Thatcher
Notable female non-war leaders:
- ??
If anything, women in national leadership roles are more likely to end up at war, either because their aggressive neighbors think they’re weak or because they feel like they have to prove that they’re not; not dissimilar to the fact that female police officers end up firing their guns more often than their male counterparts.
So, here’s to the “Lion Den Mother” – Michelle, normally I’m against human cloning – but if it’s ever perfected, I’ll make one definite exception…
LGM wrote:
LGM, it may be too much to ask of a math geek to understand the terms “allusion” and “analogy”. Sentient beings will read the sentence you object to thusly: “On the playground of life [an allusion to reality] Sally Field is LIKE the mom…”
But hey, let’s do it your way. When Sally Field asserted “If mothers ruled the world, there would be no god-damned wars in the first place,” HOW DID SHE KNOW? Is that something she read in People Magazine? Certainly she didn’t learn if from history, as many posters have pointed out to you..
Historically women have been just as willing as men to defend their countries, their interests and, yes, even their kids. See Bodicea. See the Spartan mom who on the eve of his going to battle told her son to come home carrying his shield, or being carried on it. See Elizabeth I (a childless woman, and thus a feminist icon). See the Rani of Jhansi. See that famous Delacroix painting of a woman leading the charge for freedom. Etc. etc. etc.
And, of course, consider all those Palestinian “mothers” who praise their sons and daughters for blowing themselves to bits while killing as many Israeli moms and kids as they can.
So once again, lgm, you’ve soiled yourself in public. Better get out that wellworn shoehorn and start scraping out your tighty-whiteys ………….
The feminist drivel laying blame for the ills of the world entirely on men is mindless and tiresome. Women have been here all along, willing codependents. As a woman, I ask myself frequently, what took us so long?
Plus, the worst bosses and co-workers in my long career have more frequently been other women rather than the guys. Petty, jealous and vindictive is a good general description of their interpersonal skills.
Perhaps we should tell RocheUSA that their use of Sally as a spokesperson has become counterproductive given her behavior at the Emmy’s.
Right now, in my home, when the Boniva commercial comes on, the channel changes. If enough people do likewise, OR if physicians are told by their patients to please prescribe an alternative medicine, Roche might gain wisdom.
Corporations are sensitive to the public reaction to their spokespersons, not just in relationship to the reaction to their ads, because of the public identification of the spokesperson to the company. In other words, the spokesperson becomes identified with the company, and the spokesperson’s behavior reflects upon the company.
Gun owners forced KMart to dump Rosie O’Donnell after she went public with her hatred of guns and gun owners. KMart was made to understand that Rosie’s behavior would and DID affect their bottom line. In otherwords, grab’em by their wallets and their hearts and minds will follow.
It’s just something to consider.
I think it’s just jaw-dropping for anyone to presume to speak for almost half our species on any side of any issue.
I love my LION mommy…
MM said:
Sally Field does not seem like a wall-flower to me. She was able to project her opinion clearly enough to get you riled up. You seem to think avoiding violence is for sissies. I think blundering into unnecessary war is for weak minded cowards.
And then again, you have no idea what Sally Field is really like. You assume that because she is anti-war in some general way she must be a coward. We don’t know that she opposed all war. Take Albert Einstein. He was a famous pacifist in the Sally Field mold. He changed his tune when Hitler came to power. He understood that some wars are necessary. But when you start sounding like war is good, I start to worry.
Indeed it is.
The thing is, your side of the debate has a distressingly narrow concept of what constitutes “necessary”.
Unless the President’s name rhymes with “Clinton”, of course.
I find this an odd assertion for you to make. You seem to have no problem drawing all sorts of conclusions about what people (mostly Republicans) are really like based on their stance on issues.
For the record I don’t think she’s a coward, I just think she’s profoundly stupid.
Its an analogy. Now, please hush….. the adults are talking
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume that you think this war against terrorists who want to behead us and fly airplanes into buildings in our most densely populated cities is a complete and total waste of time, don’t you?????
This anti-war gibberish when accepting an award is pure nonsense, I’ll give you that. But Patricia Heaton and Sally Field are both coming from the exact same place – they don’t want to see their kids get hurt, whether it’s on the playground or the battlefield. Perhaps a more appropriate thing for her to say is there would be no unnecessary wars if mothers ruled the world.
Being anti-war [in Iraq] and a “lion mom” are not mutually exclusive traits; both terms adequately and succinctly describe my own mother.
Sigh…poor “math teacher” lgm reveals once again that he has a problem with logic and following an argument.
Sally Field wasn’t arguing against the wisdom of A war, or that the Iraq war is unnecessary, she was arguing that if women were in charge we would have “NO goddamn wars.” That’s called pacifism.
lgm says “We don’t know that she [Field]opposed all war.”
That “opposed” is weasly. The very strong inference is that she opposes all wars, INCLUDING this one. If you have evidence she supported any previous war please post it. Otherwise, a commonsense reading of her own words, absent her support for a previous war, argues that she means what she says.
Clueless…clueless…..clueless…..lgm
lgm is trying to connect Sally Field to Albert Einstein?!?!?! Ha ha ha ha. How does lgm write these things and think anyone can take it seriously?
This is so ridiculous, but it’s also indicative of leftist thought. Much of what war means in our American experience is action against evil that threatens to overwhelm civilization. There are times when war IS good–very, VERY good.
I’ve already responded to lgm’s silly “Sally Field gave a non-partisan opinion that war is bad” response, so I’m not going to go over everything I said there. I’m just going to close by saying that evil needs to be responded to, and aggressive violence is that active response. The Arabic-proposed worldwide Islamic Caliphate is a barbaric evil that makes Nazism look like Playschool. Should the non-Muslim world just bow to this evil, for the sake of all the mothers’ children, the irony would be that women like Sally Fields would be rounded up and be stoned to death.
Stimbled upon a Show Biz Tonight (I know, I know) segment where the ditzy blonde was making a BIG deal of Fox bleeping “there would be no g*d-damned wars” based on the premise that it was bleeped for political reasons. Being blonde she kept mentioning “censorship” even though there was no government involvement. Then of course their next segment was on OJ, and CNN bleeped the OJ tape. Blondie never noticed the hypocrisy of course.
In some cultures people keep quiet when they are ignorant, but here in America stupidity pays too well. You know who you are Blondie, and you too Sally.
OK, I’m not a mom (ouch THAT would hurt), but I’m a Leo kinda guy…go Lion Lady!
yohannbiimu (#45) wrote
Yup, that’s what I said. I also said that Sally Field and her ilk will be the first people (after they’ve exterminated all of the Jews) that these people will round up and have put to death. Do you wish to call what I said into question, or are you just going to simply quote me?
OR strapped to a metal table in their own front yard, in front of their husbands, “girlfriends”, and children and neighbors, and have their heads chopped off with a muslim sword.
If westerners had NO MEANS WHATSOEVER of knowing what the muslims’ response to them would be, I MIGHT be tempted to feel sorry for them in their ignorant stupidity for the cause of “pacifism”.
But their ignorance is in the cause of promoting Socialism, and it isn’t part of a lack of knowledge of world situations, it’s part of a deliberate and willful choice to support Stalinistic Marxism, and I have no pity left for them – not after about 80 years of news cameras.
Like someone said, Sally’s OWN PERSONAL movie bibliofile leaves her PARTICULARLY without excuse.
I think this is why God says He will make THESE DAYS short for the sake of the Elect – because these days try mens’ souls, and it is mighty hard some days to hold onto one’s religion because of what these willful rebellious idiots do to our children.
It would be delightful to stick them on an island where only THEY THEMSELVES ALONE would suffer for their own ideas.
But their garbage causes serious problems for OUR children. And I’ve NEVER seen a reasonable reason to consider them as ignorantly uninformed as 2 yr old children, in these days.
I hold them accountable.
We need more of the same kind of rhetoric aimed particularly at hollywood celebrities and Cindy Shehag-type people (God rest her son’s soul), who would rather have all of us believe that negotiation with terrorists is doable. What a CROCK!!
Well done Michelle.
Michelle, thank you so very much for articulating how so many men and women in this world feel about freedom! It is not free!! No one wants death to be the price to pay but God Bless our men and women who put their lives on the line every single day so that we, here in America, land of the free, can go to bed safe and get up to a new free day! Sally Field does live in La La land along with a good percentage of Actors and Actresses in Hollywood. Could it be that they live cozy, rich lives and don’t really live in the real world? It amazes me how they have no clue and yet have so much to protest against when it’s the very thing that keeps them in their cozy, safe lifestyles. Do they really believe that it is their God given right to be free? I pray that the Sally’s of the world will keep their ignorance to themselves before they rip apart the very fabric that keeps our Country a safe place where we can be proud to live and raise our families. I lived in VA. during 9-11 and witnessed first hand the wing of the Pentagon that was destroyed. I’ll never forget how the American people rallied together to support one another. Candles were lit all around the hill sides of the Pentagon, American flags flew from anywhere that a flag could fly. I had never felt more proud to be an American…have people forgotten who did these monstrosities to us and why? Has the fear escaped their memories? Can they really be ready to risk it all over again? I cringe to think that one of them could have control of our country some day. As the daughter of a brave soldier who lost his life serving his country and the wife of a brave soldier who served over 30 years, I, like you, hold firm that ignorance comes with a serious price and it’s not Freedom! You, did speak for me! Keep up the great work. God Bless you,
When I was in grammar school, a bully pushed me to the ground,(I was small, so he thought it would be easy)I got up and hit him a few times, so no more bullying. The kids mom came to our house and started yelling at my mom. My Mom asked me what happened and I told her the truth. My mom turned to the lady and told her to take a hike because her kid deserved a beating. Thanks Mom for being a Lion!!
Hollywood liberals will never speak for me. Ever.