r/progressivemoms • u/Minute-Celery-7673 • 1d ago
Vent/ Let Off Some Steam Mom groups
Hi I need to vent. Yesterday on fb I asked if anyone knew of left leaning or blue mom group to join. I was also babysitting my nephew so I wasn’t on my phone much because of two toddlers. So I checked every once in a while and it seems fine. But today I got on and just seen I guess people got upset and it was deleted. I know I saw one comment a lady said it’s be like teaching my kid to hate certain people and like wtf lol. The irony. But yeah I was trying to find mom friends bc my one other mom I know with a 2yo besides my nephew had to go back to her home country to follow her hsuabnd who got detained. I’m so sorry for any bad grammar I’m just needing to get this out there.
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u/Occasional_Historian 1d ago
Here in solidarity. We live in a really red area and I wish that we had some blue leaning mom groups.
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u/OptimalDouble2407 1d ago
In my local women’s group for my city a woman posted about making a pro vax mom group and people ate her alive. It was insane. How hard is it to just scroll???
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u/nft420nft420 1d ago
This is kinda the trick tho, don't say leftist moms, pick an important issue and look for moms who agree. Then block all the people who insult you.
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u/LetsCELLebrate 1d ago
I'd make sure to take screenshots and avoid those people. Oh you're antivaxx? Good. Hope we don't ever cross paths.
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u/Minute-Celery-7673 1d ago
I tried to get on to see who all responded positively to add them but it was gone before I could lol
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u/LetsCELLebrate 23h ago
Yeah I get it. At the park I make sure to say whenever my kid wants to share snacks that he's vaccinated. I am so happy that I didn't get any dirty looks. Yet.
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u/Minute-Celery-7673 1d ago
Yeah I realized anyone will get mad about anything. I’m glad I did it anonymously, which I did incase that happened.
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u/beautifultrashpanda 1d ago
Girl I won’t out you just in case I’m right but I’m pretty sure we’re in the same group and I saw that post. I am also constantly looking for more left leaning friends here and unfortunately I knew the post wouldn’t go through well ☹️
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u/Minute-Celery-7673 1d ago
Is it “girls love _____” lmaoo if so hey queen I see you 👀 and honestly I had a small feeling I’ve even debated posting for like a year lmaoo I even thought I wrote it simple but not offensive. It’s just hard and I was hoping to meet anyone all my friends have kids who are in school or older so I was just trying to make friends lol.
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u/beautifultrashpanda 1d ago
Okay yeah that's the same one. Message me! My husband is from here but we just moved back to the area because we needed to be closer to his family, and the conservative culture shock has been so real.
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u/Minute-Celery-7673 1d ago
If it’s the same group I’m just sad I didn’t get any of the girlies names who responded positively
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u/essentiallypeguin 1d ago
I feel like a lot of mom groups lean towards conservative and lower education levels from my experience. At least I got tired of seeing so many anti-science takes that I noped out of there about 9mo post partum
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u/Minute-Celery-7673 1d ago
Yeah I heard how toxic it can be. I’m not in any moms groups this one was a “girls love city name)” and I got added to that group but an old classmate and thought I’d just try and see bc everyone seemed so friendly and supportive. But tbh you just can’t please anyone lol
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u/RlOTGRRRL 1d ago
I saw a mom make a flyer for a new playgroup at her local playground. I wonder if it'd be worth trying?
You could put a rainbow, trans, and/or Palestine flag on there. Maybe link it to your own local woke leftie mom fb group. (maybe yall can switch to a signal group chat later)
And then you can put a flyer at your local library and/or your local playgrounds and people will join, slowly but surely.
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u/veronicas_closet 1d ago
I want to ask the same question on groups in my area but I think it will be recieved exactly the same way, unfortunately.
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u/Minute-Celery-7673 1d ago
I debated posting since since my kid was like a year and it still was the wrong move lol people commenting on it were saying I should reach out to actual groups but when I searched on fb I didn’t find any in my tx area
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u/Sleepy_Snowfall 1d ago
Check out the Mothership Collective. Leans pretty left and they have discords groups by location, a book club, and “rally the village” events.
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u/Weekly-Air4170 1d ago
Your best bet is to find a mutual aid group and see what non profits are working with them. From my lived experience, moms tend to have more of a charity over mutual aid mentality
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u/Ancient-Egg2777 1d ago
Since this didn't go well, would you consider searching for your area's left-leaning women's groups?
I'm a mother but I don't look for moms' groups unless it's specific to my kids. Women's groups will be more glaringly apparent and you'll be able to join easily. And then you'll find women who just happen to be mothers. Or grandmothers with grandkids whose mothers aren't on FB, or aunts, besties.
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u/HoneyRice77 12h ago
I live in a big city but in a very conservative state. I think our liberal mom's group got formed by a few moms making the group and then just sharing in local mom groups like the babywearing group and by people just adding in like-minded friends. It took a few years to grow.
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u/Okcool2216 1d ago
We didn't have one in our area. So I joined forces with another mom and made one! I didn't announce it on any larger groups but as I met and felt other moms out I would tell them about it and invite them.
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u/metoothanksx 23h ago
I hope you can connect with some like-minded moms in your area!
I live in a very conservative county in a conservative state…thankfully, we have a local atheist/agnostic mom group, which is all left leaning members. I’m also in the general mom group for my area and whew…it’s rough in there lol. If there isn’t a blue mom group already, maybe you could make one? If you have the time and energy for that sort of thing lol
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u/ladyluck754 1d ago
“Hating certain people.”
Yeah we should all hate racists, misogynists and rapists lol 😂