I saw a bumper sticker today proudly proclaiming the owner of the vehicle as a "dog mom".
"Mom" is a word that is being ruined by its misuse. I understand the cute part of this use. We're supposed to think that they take care of their dogs the way they're supposed to as if they're children. But my logical mind that tends to take things too literally automatically thinks and wonders if that woman should be referred to as a bitch now?
Army mom, dog mom, mama called by husband, and other uses mess up the word "mom". Stepmom is one that drives people crazy because that woman is not that child's mother but you want to apply the intent of the word mom to someone who is not the mother of the child but married into that position.
And I guess that's the problem. It's that when I call my mother "mom" I mean mother and one that I love. So I can see the use of it in those other ways. But I just can't stand how words get bastardized by people trying to be too cute or too smart.
There are other examples. Wife. Boss. Others. We just tend to take words and twist them into meanings that weren't intended.
My 18-year-old tells me that they do that on purpose at his school because they're trying to hide what they're talking about. And half because it's done for the shock value.
I wish they would stop twisting words in the meetings that they just don't mean.
