[104205] in Cypherpunks
Re: Soccer Moms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burnes)
Tue Oct 13 12:30:39 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:15:28 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jim Burnes <jvb@ssds.com>
To: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1@texaco.com>
cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <896C7C3540C3D111AB9F00805FA78CE2013F84C8@MSX11002>
Reply-To: Jim Burnes <jvb@ssds.com>
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Brown, R Ken wrote:
> In the middle of an interesting article about digital cash, forwarded
> here by Bob Hettinga, there was the line:
>
> > After all, the kind of soccer moms who elected Bill Clinton
>
> "Divided by a common language" as I am I genuinly don't know what that
> means. And I can't even guess from context. I'd have expected a dig at
> liberals or feminists or welfare recipients at that point; and I can't
> work out what soccer has to do with it.
>
> Do mothers play soccer much in the USA?
>
etc...
The answer you search for is:
In US primary schools (mostly in affluent suburbs), soccer (football)
is a very popular fall/winter sport for ages 7-14.
Soccer moms are the mothers that haul their sons and daughters around
after school and on Saturday mornings in minivans to these games.
"Soccer moms" connotes a particular kind of woman. Its difficult to
give you an exact definition although its usually slightly deragatory.
Lets try to describe her:
Middle to Upper Middle class
White
Mid-thirties
Average Intelligence
Thinks Bill Clinton is a Stud
Probably a Career Mom and thinks working 9-5 in a big corporate
arcology is a pretty neat thing
(not relative to unemployment, but relative to others who think its a
trap)
Probably religious, either WASP, Catholic or Statist.
This, at least, is the stereotype. YMMV.
Jim
