Mother's Day Reclamation

Here's a little food for thought on the Friday before Mother's Day:

Ahh, Mother's Day. A day to show our mothers how much we appreciate them by killing flowers, pulpifying trees, and gorging on sweets by way of the plantation. Now that's love...

Okay, we jest and it's not that we all aren't deserving of a little luxury now and then. But sometimes it seems that Mother's Day is about trying to shop our way out of responsibility, something we modern day capitalists have elevated to an artform. And as usual, we're cheered on by the multinationals who have taken what began as a day for women's activism and transformed it into a multi-billion dollar bonanza for industry. Few people know that the roots of Mother's Day lie in women working together for a better world. Today's commercialized parody has strayed far from the dream of its founding mothers.