{"id":1183,"date":"2010-02-26T16:20:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2010\/02\/in-case-anyone-had-any-doubts.html"},"modified":"2010-02-26T16:20:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:20:27","slug":"in-case-anyone-had-any-doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2010\/02\/in-case-anyone-had-any-doubts.html","title":{"rendered":"In Case Anyone Had Any Doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; about who this boy belonged to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/mop-headed-jib-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mop-headed-jib-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/mop-headed-jib-2-thumb-300x443-11822.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"300\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><\/span>&#8230; you can just reflect upon whether or not there is any resemblance between him and his mother:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/me-and-my-mullet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"me-and-my-mullet.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/112\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/me-and-my-mullet-thumb-300x354-11828.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"300\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/span>Yeah. Someday, he might have a mullet like that. If he&#8217;s lucky.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><em>(These photos demonstrate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebadmomsclub.com\/2010\/02\/shiloh-pittjolie-cut-her-hair.html\">the point that&#8217;s being made over at the Bad Moms Club<\/a> about boys and girls and short hair. I&#8217;m not sure what the point is, exactly &#8211; the small children with short haircuts defy gender stereotyping? that the words &#8216;small children with short haircuts&#8217; just should never be used in the same sentence with &#8216;gender stereotyping&#8217;? &#8211; but still. It&#8217;s been made.)<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; about who this boy belonged to&#8230; &#8230; you can just reflect upon whether or not there is any resemblance between him and his mother: Yeah. Someday, he might have a mullet like that. If he&#8217;s lucky. 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