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boycotting Mother's Day
ok, as if i need to give you guys any more of a reason to think i'm a nonconformist, i just thought this was interesting...
| quote: | After the death of her mother, daughter Anna Jarvis was determined to found a memorial day for women. She celebrated her first Mother’s Day on May 10, 1908 , at the Methodist church where her mother had taught Sunday school. West Virginia Governor William E. Glasscock issued the first state-recognized Mother’s Day proclamation on April 26, 1910 . Two years later, Anna was recognized as the founder of Mother’s Day by the General Methodist Conference.
President Woodrow Wilson declared an official national Mother’s Day in 1914, approving the Congressional resolution to celebrate the day every year on the second Sunday in May.
By the 1920s, Jarvis had become soured on the commercialization of the holiday. She incorporated herself as the Mother’s Day International Association, claimed copyright on the second Sunday of May, and was once arrested for disturbing the peace. She and her sister Ellsinore spent their family inheritance campaigning against the holiday. Both died in poverty. Jarvis, says her New York Times obituary, became embittered because too many people sent their mothers a printed greeting card. She considered it "a poor excuse for the letter you are too lazy to write." |
so what do you guys think? it's crazy to me that the woman who invented the holiday spent her entire savings basically fighting against what the holiday had become. personally i'd rather honor the holiday as Jarvis intended it to be, and not send my mom a cheesy Hallmark card or flowers. granted i'll still call her and tell her i love her... but after knowing how hard Jarvis fought, i think it's a little wrong to buy into the commercialism of the holiday.
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