Thursday, March 7th 2013

Tina Fey Says Mommy Message Boards Are A Cesspool Of Disgusting Foolery

If Taylor Swift is right and there really is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women, then I guess being trapped in that special place in hell is a lot like being trapped inside of a mommy message board. At a round table with the cast of Admission, UsWeekly brought up that scene in the last episode of 30 Rock where Liz Lemon gets into a type fight with a bunch of crazy and judgy moms on a mommy message board. Tina Fey said that scene was inspired by the time she dipped into the insanity pool by lurking on UrbanBaby (aka Fishstick Paltrow's home away from GOOP). Tina said:

"That was definitely built on experience with things I have seen. I have never . . . I don't know how to post on any of those. So I promise you I have never posted. I have seen people pretending to be me post on Urban Baby. I had a friend call me and say, "Are you on Urban Baby?" I said no. I didn't know what that was. I do think some of them - Urban Baby specifically - have some of the worst human behavior I've ever seen in my life. Terrible. There is no one running [those sites] or they would fix it."

Worst human behavior she has ever seen? Well, I guess she wasn't in the Dlisted comments that time I was in there and we started talking about dudes who love to make out with Aunt Flow. Tina has a point, though. Buzzfeed posted a list of the 15 most vomit-inducing things written on UrbanBaby and it included the most fucked up thing I've read ever since I re-read that Dlisted comment thread about dudes who love to make out with Aunt Flow:

(FYI: DD stands for "dear daughter.")

THE HELL?! Shut down the internet. Shut down the world. Shut down everything. I can't.

And before everything gets shut down, look at these pictures of Tina Fey and a lost member of Hall & Oates at the premiere of Admission in NYC on Tuesday night.

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Love Tina.

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Checked out the U B site and there are no posts or pics of boobs and peens to comment on, just nested replies to replies? SAY WHAT? Uh, no thanks. (Disgusting)

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On the fence about Rudd's lip bush...

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Submitted by boredasfuckyo on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 1:27am.

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You don't have to treat children as adults. That's fine, as I clearly stated in my second post. I don't care what you do. I was just saying that treating kids like they are adults is not "asure fire way to get yourself a mouthy disrespectful brat." That was my only point this entire time.

I didn't take this personally. I explained my situation and then said I understood that was my opinion based on my own childhood experiences and that everyone was entitled to their own.

And not all children throw tantrums over having to take their medicine. I never threw a tantrum because I had to take my medicine. I'm sure I pouted occasionally though. And one of my adult friends has been throwing a fit because she has to go to the dental surgeon and she refuses to be in the same room as a needle. So some adults do throw tantrums (maybe not on the floor, but they do throw tantrums) over medical stuff as well as many other things.

And people don't talk to their children like they're adults because they're looking for companionship or intellectual stimulation. At least not most of them.

BTW, you could have talked about switching your internet service. That might have been a quick way to make the kid go away. That's probably what I would have done.

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Submitted by TelevisedRevolution on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 3:30pm.
I was referring to earlier posts where people implied they would wait till the Uptight Mom wasn't around and feed the kid sugar behind her back, since that she was denying her kid a good time by not letting him have a big sugary cake, or something like that.
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Submitted by OzKat on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 1:02am.

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Well considering you seemed to take it personally even though it WASN'T toward YOU or your parents BECAUSE I don't know you or your parents, it's just really kind of moot. You copied and pasted your own situation and assumed it was the same thing, when what I was talking about WASN'T the same thing. I didn't pat his kid on the head and speak to it like a dog, "good boy, that's a good boy", I spoke to his 4 year old kid like a 4 year old kid, not like someone in their 20s. The majority of what interested her were Disney Princesses,Tinkerbell and coloring. Like I'm just gonna sit and have a random conversation about a new Deftones album or an English assignment or why I'm thinking about switching internet service with a 4 year old. Also adults don't throw tantrums in the middle of the floor because they can't watercolor or have to take their medicine, or you really suppose to speak to that person with the reasonableness as someone who's adult age? Like yea, cool...she can do what she wants. I'm sorry, my friends are not children, my friends are adults. I do not give the same consideration and seriousness in terms of conversation topic/intellect and reason when it comes to adult versus kids. My adult friends are my confidants, not children. I don't have children, therefore I am not surrounded by one 24/7 to the point where they are my only people to hold a conversation with. Maybe that's the issue for some of the people here with kids who need to get a fucking grip and more adult friends aside from the people on the D...If that didn't clear it up for you...your SOL

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Submitted by boredasfuckyo on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 10:36pm.
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Well many people refer to the way my parents talked to me as "talking to a child like they are an adult" because they took my opinion seriously, discussed many topics with me, and used adult vocabulary (including many words that are on the SAT or GRE) when we talked so that's what I originally assumed was what you meant. Do you mean discussing Nietzsche? Did he want you to compare whiskies with her? Did he want you to discuss the symbolism of the flower in her picture book? Did he want you to show her web sites about constellations or molecules and discuss those with her? What?

I said I just wanted to let it go because you weren't explaining it and it didn't seem like you were going to, and I just wanted to let it go, but then you made me sound dense. Maybe I am, but I also think you are not explaining yourself very well. What you consider "talking to a kid like an adult" would probably be considered to be a normal way to talk to a kid by many other people. So if you want me (and other people) to understand you, you need to be more specific about what you mean when you say "talking to kids like they're an adult".

Edit: What dementa said.

Often when people say that a kid is being talked to "like an adult,' what they mean is they're being spoken to with respect that they are a human being, not an annoying talking doll whose personhood doesn't need acknowledgement. That is how a lot of dipshits speak to children.

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If Urban Baby shocked her she should never go on Datalounge. She may never recover.

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Submitted by OzKat on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 7:46pm.

Sorry, I just don't get what you mean when you say "talking to kids like they're an adult" and you saying that phrase over and over without explain what it means to you isn't going to change that.
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If you don't know what talking to/treating a kid like an adult vs. treating it like a child/it's proper age/developmental group, then I can't help you out. That shouldn't be something that has to be explained...especially when you said you didn't really want me to anyway...
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As a non-breeder, I dunno from what I speak. But these "mommies" sound like real assjacks. Tina calls it out like a champ. LOve her for that.

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I just love Tina Fey. She's right, many people on the internet have atrocious manners and are downright assholes, and I doubt they let it flow like that irl. If she thinks the mommy sites are bad, she should come here on a bad day. Damn, some days I avoid the internet because I am just not in the mood to have some sniveling coward call me a fucking idiot because he or she doesn't agree with my opinion. Or to have to read that Jews are the root of all perversions, or that Heidi Klum's children are niglets. Oh, I could go on and on... BLERGH!

But sometimes it's really fun and inspirational, and that keeps me coming back. Plus the laughs. :)

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Submitted by Twat Muffin on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 9:32pm.

Hey Twatty, you traded Christopher Meloni for Hammaconda? Hahahaha

*reported*

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Louise -- people in shorts? There's a mound of snow 40" high at the end of my driveway -- WTF??? I don't think the looking sloppy or slutty look is ever going to go away; it is here to stay! What I really hate are the big, fat people in print one-piece pajamas. As far as looking & acting like a whore, that's been around forever.

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Submitted by Twat Muffin on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 8:36pm.

I don't get it either. If you ever see me in workout clothes its because I am either going to/coming home from working out, incredibly sick and picking up medication, or recovering from surgery. I don't get going out looking like a stripper either until you are actually a stripper either. Then they probably get pissed when men look at them in a sexual way.

I don't go out dressed to the 9's unless I have a very good reason, but I do try and look presentable and like a lady. I wish this whole going out looking like a whore and/or slob would die a painful death.

ETA: I saw a ton of people in shorts today! I was thinking yes, it's sunny, but it's still 38 degrees out!

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Ughhh, yes. It doesn't matter where you go, some moms just love to post judgmental comments chastising others because they're so damn perfect. Preachy, snooty, know-it-alls spending hours of their time cutting each other down. Meanwhile their husband is out banging a coworker.

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Louise -- I'm jelly; I wished I got "Hinsdale." I'm at Oak Brook mall all the time. I used to live like 2 minutes away from the mall for many years and still go there all the time. I'm not intimidated by anyone and shop at all the stores, fuck them all. And yeah, what's up with that? They're supposed to be classy broads and they look like strippers -- WTF? Are these the trophy wives who broke up long-standing marriages because they ARE strippers? I don't know, I honestly don't know. Today I saw this skanky brunette wearing a skin-tight yoga outfit and slip-on type Croc's (but she was barefoot -- in 9" of snow!), she was heavily spray-tanned, looked really sleazey, yet got into a huge Mercedes sedan. She looked like one of the Mob Wives of Chicago who WAS a stripper!!!

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Submitted by Twat Muffin on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 7:51pm.

We actually get Hinsdale magazine for some reason! LMAO We don't live in any of those towns, but we get it in the mail. I The first time it came I was like, "The fuck is this?" I kind of hate going to Oak Brook, but do it because of the Sephora. I go straight there and home. Sometimes I will walk down to The Gap, but I try to go to Yorktown. And yeah, they do look skanky. I don't get it.

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Louise -- I was at Good Sam's for a blood test today, and in the waiting room was a "Hinsdale" magazine -- did you know such fuckery existed? It says it's for the Hinsdale/Clarendon Hills/Oak Brook/Burr Ridge communities. Given that I border two of those communities, I feel very left out. Those snobs, huh? And I had to go to Oak Brook mall to return a couple of things, and the spray-tanned, yoga moms were making me sick. Did you ever notice how some of them are very slutty-looking, too?

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Submitted by boredasfuckyo on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 7:29pm.

*rubs temples and walks away*
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Sorry, I just don't get what you mean when you say "talking to kids like they're an adult" and you saying that phrase over and over without explain what it means to you isn't going to change that.

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Tina Feyyy!!! Interesting she leaves the DL out of this, and rightly so, as we self-moderate. *swigs self-moderating p.noir

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Twatty- I am here. What's up? This story totally made me think of those horrible skinny latte yoga moms from our area.

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Louise -- are you still here? I saw the most ridiculous thing today about our area!!!

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Submitted by OzKat

One time in my early twenties I did tell my dad to shut up though. I was trying to help him do something and it required me to focus and he kept talking about something much less important which made it impossible to focus so I snapped and told him to shut up

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Sanctimony abounds on those sites, for sure. That said, I don't understand people who refuse to center their lives around their children, especially small kids. You had them, it's your job to put their interests first.
I don't think this means never taking a bath again, but it typically means your pre-child priorities will shift pretty dramatically. Why wouldn't they?
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Submitted by OzKat on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 7:06pm.
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Submitted by boredasfuckyo on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 6:16pm.

I don't really know the difference between talking to someone like an adult vs. talking to them like a normal person, and I don't really know how you'd explain it without giving me examples. And I know no one else cares, so let's just let it go.
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Submitted by Foxxy Brown on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 6:02pm.
Submitted by misslainey on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 5:57pm.

Submitted by Foxxy Brown on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 5:45pm

Yes, tragically poor and cheap. Ross used to be my high falutin' store, but their prices have gone stratospherically out of my budget.

i live 3 min from a super Goodwill, and about 5 from a Burlington Coat Factory and Ross. i dream of the days when i used to be able to go to Nordsrom Rack and even real Nordstrom and Macy's etc

/happy with what i have and can do now but still... #firstworldshoppingsadness

Striver.

*runs away giggling in $12 Old Navy sweater*

In all seriousness, these women are awful on so many levels. I'm still shocked that these are real people and not an elaborate joke. The whole "the brown rubs off" thing is still killing me.

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Submitted by boredasfuckyo on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 6:16pm.
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I don't really know the difference between talking to someone like an adult vs. talking to them like a normal person, and I don't really know how you'd explain it without giving me examples. And I know no one else cares, so let's just let it go.

I do agree that parents need to encourage their kids to share or they'll be brats, but then I'd tell a selfish adult that I lived with that they needed to learn how to share too. And parents do need to make their kids do basic things like go to bed at a reasonable hour. I had to go to sleep at 9 and when I got older I got to stay up until 10 (which I was excited about because that meant an extra hour of I Love Lucy), but when I visited my bratty cousins when I was a teenager and they were about 7, they were running around past midnight on a school night, screaming their heads off. My aunt and uncle laughed it off and said "I guess you had to deal with this too."
"No." It was horrifying for both of us.

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I bet they all feel powerful in their snuggies typing away with a glass of red wine in hand and a plate of cheese in front of them.

It's amazing how technology turns people into animals.

Not that I would ever admit to being a bitch on the internet. I'M ALLOWED MY ANONYMITY. That's what the internet is for, right?

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Submitted by LaChaylo on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 6:01pm

What is it with that sanitizer crap? I hate that.

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Submitted by OzKat on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 6:08pm.
Submitted by boredasfuckyo on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 4:53pm.

No, I meant my parents talked to me like an adult. They asked my opinion and factored it in to their decisions. They had final say, but it was like a boss asking their employee's opinion. Sometimes they listened, sometimes they compromised, and sometimes they ignored it.

Kids get that adults are in charge, you're freaking four times their size, they know you call the shots; you don't have to talk down to them to teach them to be respectful.

But that's just my opinion I formed from my own childhood and everyone is entitled to their take on raising kids.
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And understandable, except what you described wasn't your parents treating you like an adult, they were talking to you like a normal person and being considerate to a degree, however that's not what I'M TALKING ABOUT...I'm talking about the assholes I KNOW, wanted me to treat their kids like they were fucking adults. Don't get it twisted, there is a difference between talking to someone ANYONE normally and with a reasonable amount of respect, but THERE IS limitations because THERE is so much a child can understand on a cognitive/reasonable/rational level due to the fact that they haven't even grown that part of their brains yet, and when you want me to treat them like THEY HAVE, and like I am going to abide and respect them like they are requiring of the same amount of seriousness and consideration as say someone who is pass the legal drinking age...you're out of your fucking mind. He didn't even believe in teaching his kid about sharing, said if she wanted to share her things she could if she wanted too and wasn't gonna force her...His kids are fucking brats, throw tantrums, and have crayon/marker scribblings all over the backseat and window of his vehicle.

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Oh my god anno...is that a green beer?!?

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Submitted by boredasfuckyo on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 4:53pm.

No, I meant my parents talked to me like an adult. They asked my opinion and factored it in to their decisions. They had final say, but it was like a boss asking their employee's opinion. Sometimes they listened, sometimes they compromised, and sometimes they ignored it.

Kids get that adults are in charge, you're freaking four times their size, they know you call the shots; you don't have to talk down to them to teach them to be respectful.

But that's just my opinion I formed from my own childhood and everyone is entitled to their take on raising kids.

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Submitted by misslainey on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 5:57pm.

Submitted by Foxxy Brown on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 5:45pm

Yes, tragically poor and cheap. Ross used to be my high falutin' store, but their prices have gone stratospherically out of my budget.

i live 3 min from a super Goodwill, and about 5 from a Burlington Coat Factory and Ross. i dream of the days when i used to be able to go to Nordsrom Rack and even real Nordstrom and Macy's etc

/happy with what i have and can do now but still... #firstworldshoppingsadness

"Voodoo is forgetting who's the john and who's the whore." MK, 3/20/12

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You all are cracking me up with this Urban Baby bullshit. If there is a group of holier than thou bitches, it is the rich SAHM posse who wear their finest lulemon yoga attire to the playground while carrying the latest Louis Vuitton tote bought by hubby, full of sanitizer.

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Submitted by Foxxy Brown on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 5:45pm

Yes, tragically poor and cheap. Ross used to be my high falutin' store, but their prices have gone stratospherically out of my budget.

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OMG, these fucking SAHMs need to STFU, IKR? Those SMs and DMs work just as hard and have NMTSFI. I mean, MIMSY???? WTF, IMHO. MOMBDHOKLT, is what everyone should live by.

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I looked at the 15 things, and it's really only like five things repeatedly, but "CASTE"?! What the hell? That's taking things to a new level of socio-economic snobbery in America.

My main hate is the whole precocious kids!! theme. I freaking hate it. I'm sick of your precocious kids and the "cool" shit they do! So many parents basically take something silly that their kid did or said and the parent pretty much just willfully interprets that in an adult context just so that it translates as something "hip" or genius. So obnoxious. Kids aren't cool. Parents are just attaching their dumbass Internet meme values to kids being silly. Like, someone I know found their child singing "Ring Around the Rosies" and the kid ignorantly sang "rocket full of posies" instead. This merited posting online, of course, as parent-with-a-cool-kid cred. Oh, "rocket full of posies is a hell of a lot more awesome", yeah? Blurgh. I know this sounds petty and convoluted.

I am totally apart from this mommyblog world. This really kind of makes me want to check that website out, explore its depths. Maybe it will help me adjust if I ever get pregnant from sitting on the wrong toilet seat or adopt a child.

Also, Paul Rudd is mine! Does anyone else think maybe he's had work done, though? About ten years ago or more, when his career wasn't as active, he used to look more aged and his eyes were usually really puffy. Now he always looks preternaturally young. I mean, I won't hold it against him.

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Submitted by misslainey on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 5:41pm.

Submitted by louise_brooks on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 5:23pm.

Guess I won't get in with my no-name thrift store bag.

thanks for the info. i was unaware that we had the poors among us here...

*sniffs and adjusts the handle of my classy Ross purchased handbag*

"Voodoo is forgetting who's the john and who's the whore." MK, 3/20/12

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Submitted by louise_brooks on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 5:23pm.

Guess I won't get in with my no-name thrift store bag.

When I had my first I tried to join a group of new moms. I was fucking rejected because I was not a good fit why? Because I work and would not make it to the weekly morning walks.

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Wow. I had no idea places like that even existed. Being a snobby asshole over someone's choice of handbag? Really???

*holds up purse* $29 at JC Penny's. Choke on it, bitches.

I wish Twatty was here. These are like those skinny latte yoga moms that darken our neighborhood.

I am a SHM and have a full time job and had fertility issues.... It is exhausting :-d

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new UrbanBaby thread:

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Obviously coming from his parents or trust, just be curious how long it will last.

"Voodoo is forgetting who's the john and who's the whore." MK, 3/20/12

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Who cares about Tina Fey and kids?

PAUL RUDD is what we should be talking about.

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i'm not sure if i'm even allowed to enter UrbanBaby...

*checks Trip Advisor to see if i'm in one of the "top metropolitan cities of the world"*

/already knows i'm not in one of the top metropolitan cities of the world

"Voodoo is forgetting who's the john and who's the whore." MK, 3/20/12

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Submitted by Aerialgreen on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 4:36pm.

Nice try Tina Fey, we fellow D-listers already know you are none other but Suckandfuck....
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I just paid a visit to that UrbanBaby. I have never, in my entire life seen such nasty, shallow, and just simply shitfilled people in my entire life. A woman posted how seeing her husband dance with her daughter made her feel happy, and she got basically showered with shit for it. WTF?

I didn't know there was DNA in my ass!

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Submitted by OzKat on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 3:19pm.
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No. I don't mean the cutesy baby voice, I meant these people literally thought I was going to give this kid the same leverage, seriousness, respect and intellectual acknowledgement like it was an adult. It ain't happenin, not with me at least. If some of the parents on here want to act like their kid is on their level, more power to you, just never come over to my home because you will be offended when I treat your kid like a KID. Homie don't play that.

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Sanctimommy on Facebook cracks me up.