Bravo! Somebody finally said it! My last several years in the corporate world were filled with gurus telling us to become influencers and move into areas of which we had little to no knowledge or experience but were nonetheless expected to deliver results. The effort to do so seldom worked and felt fraudulent in trying. No substitute for experience gained through working diligently at your craft.
Really enjoyed reading this! Having reached the age of 69, I am often confused about the world we are living in now. The popularity of the influencer was completely beyond me. It seemed like a quick and easy way to make money without all the work of a “real” job. The insight you have offered here was extremely enjoyable. Thank you!
Thinking more on momfluencers... perhaps they’re so many due to the truncated nature of today’s matrilineal relationships. I mean that in an overarching societal way. Gone are the days where a new mom is made while surrounded by her female relatives. We used to birth our children in our homes, surrounded by the women who came before us. These women taught us how to breastfeed and helped us care for the home while recovering. And these women continued to be present throughout the rearing of that newborn child. Many aspects of the female to female service and servitude that we see in the past have been outsourced to medical professionals, daycare, educators, etc. Perhaps the rise of the momfluencer is due to our societal yearning to connect with and compensate for the maternal wisdom we’ve lost. They’re attempting to fill a void.
Absolutely in agreement with you on the filling of a void. I speculate about whether or not this is a positive or negative way to fill that void...but it exists, otherwise the popularity wouldn't have occurred in the first place.
So speaking of Momfluencers, I hope it's not too much to say, young mothers seem askance at looking first of all to their own mothers, cancelling them if they sense any whiff at all of disagreement with them, either explicitly or silently, as though the young mom were the first in the family to become a mother. The trend among millennials is: lash out at Mom for interfering, run to therapist (even a Catholic/Christian one supplies here), who directs millennial to define herself as victim of an abusive controlling mother, and then said millennial, with online support of millions of other invisible aggrieved millennial moms, can confidently classify g'Mom as "Toxic" and disconnect vital intergenerational contact between g'Mom and millennial's child. No, I'm not a parent but I am a millennial watching the carnage from close up. God bless!!
Bravo! Somebody finally said it! My last several years in the corporate world were filled with gurus telling us to become influencers and move into areas of which we had little to no knowledge or experience but were nonetheless expected to deliver results. The effort to do so seldom worked and felt fraudulent in trying. No substitute for experience gained through working diligently at your craft.
Really enjoyed reading this! Having reached the age of 69, I am often confused about the world we are living in now. The popularity of the influencer was completely beyond me. It seemed like a quick and easy way to make money without all the work of a “real” job. The insight you have offered here was extremely enjoyable. Thank you!
Bravo!
Thinking more on momfluencers... perhaps they’re so many due to the truncated nature of today’s matrilineal relationships. I mean that in an overarching societal way. Gone are the days where a new mom is made while surrounded by her female relatives. We used to birth our children in our homes, surrounded by the women who came before us. These women taught us how to breastfeed and helped us care for the home while recovering. And these women continued to be present throughout the rearing of that newborn child. Many aspects of the female to female service and servitude that we see in the past have been outsourced to medical professionals, daycare, educators, etc. Perhaps the rise of the momfluencer is due to our societal yearning to connect with and compensate for the maternal wisdom we’ve lost. They’re attempting to fill a void.
Absolutely in agreement with you on the filling of a void. I speculate about whether or not this is a positive or negative way to fill that void...but it exists, otherwise the popularity wouldn't have occurred in the first place.
So speaking of Momfluencers, I hope it's not too much to say, young mothers seem askance at looking first of all to their own mothers, cancelling them if they sense any whiff at all of disagreement with them, either explicitly or silently, as though the young mom were the first in the family to become a mother. The trend among millennials is: lash out at Mom for interfering, run to therapist (even a Catholic/Christian one supplies here), who directs millennial to define herself as victim of an abusive controlling mother, and then said millennial, with online support of millions of other invisible aggrieved millennial moms, can confidently classify g'Mom as "Toxic" and disconnect vital intergenerational contact between g'Mom and millennial's child. No, I'm not a parent but I am a millennial watching the carnage from close up. God bless!!