{"id":3482,"date":"2012-11-05T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2012-11-05T20:18:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:18:49","slug":"my-moms-a-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/my-moms-a-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mom’s a Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, this<\/em> mom is a geek. Possibly a nerd. My own mom is way cooler than that.<\/p>\n

Anyways, I was talking with another mom at a local Meetup group that I joined and she was complaining that there are all sorts of “My Dad’s a Geek” t-shirts out there, but that nobody makes a version for moms. I’ve run into this myself. You can get shirts and onesies that say “My Dad and I love the Red Sox,” but there’s no mom version. At least there wasn’t a mom version at the store I was at. Perhaps there was a mom version and folks bought all of them, but I somehow doubt it. And if there was<\/em> a mom version, it was probably pink and bedazzled.<\/p>\n

(Not that I don’t love me some pink and bedazzled, but at some point you need to stop resorting to cliche).<\/p>\n

There is definitely<\/em> no, “My Dad loves to work on the house while my Mom and I watch the Red Sox” shirt, which is too bad because I would totally buy that one.<\/p>\n

I commiserated with my fellow geeky mom for a bit. It was while she was talking about how she practically had to go to the ends of the earth to get a “My Mom’s a Geek” shirt for her son that I realized, duh, that my Dad owns a t-shirt printing company. Which means that I don’t<\/em> have to go to the ends of the earth. I just have to go to his house. And if I offer up football on our big-screen TV and snuggles with my baby, he would probably drop off said shirts at my house. It literally could not be easier, at least for me.<\/p>\n

I guess the problem with the “My Mom’s a Geek” shirts is that not too many people bought them. I’m sure there’s a very good reason for this, probably having to do with the fact that women are socialized to underplay their own intelligence and to strive instead for physical attraction. Witness this<\/a> online store. Your dad might be a geek, but let’s hope that your mom is a fox! Personally, I’d like to think that I’m half geek, half fox, half not good at fractions.<\/p>\n

Luckily for me, I don’t need to print and sell enough shirts to justify making them. I just need to print up a few for friends, family and possibly strangers on Etsy. I also know quite a few geeky moms, which makes it easy to find a couple of folks who I know would want such a shirt.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to this…. do any of you want a “My Mom’s a Geek” shirt? They’re going to be $10\/each for a really nice American Apparel kids’ t-shirt or onesie. I’ve decided to put any profit into Lilian’s college fund. If you put in an order with me before I have them printed, you’ll get your choice of size and possibly of shirt color.<\/p>\n

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I’m going to try and sell these on Etsy. Good thing I have an adorable little model at my disposal.<\/p>\n

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