Nanny Diaries was fun…and, as I said, I had to “check out” on several occasions to keep from becoming enraged at the cartoonish evil. However, I’d like to note the elitism and self-involvement of her friend, as well. After college, you’re supposed to become a bohemian hedonist and/or a social worker. These are the only two options. If you strive and make money, you’re a sellout, if you raise kids (in this case, other people’s kids), you’re not “living up to your potential”, ie, you’re letting your brain rot. It’s a good thing we don’t actually ask women today what they want. Better to just tell them and prevent the poor dears from ruining their lives.

That said, I think Pot Mom should think about doing something OTHER than childrearing!! It’s baffling to me that we even have to refute thinking like this! I have to wonder if maybe what seems obvious and commonsense just isn’t. Maybe we forget that we have to learn right and wrong, and self-control, and concepts like responsibility and sacrifice. I know I was taught these things (though the amount that stuck was certainly up to me…), so I don’t know why I assume that everyone else should know them instinctively. So, I suppose what I’m saying is…we should tell this woman what to think.

And I refuse to apologize for the blatant contradiction of the sentiments between the above two paragraphs. Raising children is good and noble, and doing it while high is reckless and selfish.