Baby Mama v motherhood

So earlier I wrote an entry on the difference between a baby daddy and a father. So now I feel like I need to make a distinction between a baby mama and a what it means to be a woman in motherhood. The term baby mama is in so many way a degrading term. This term is something men use in referring to the mother of their children. However, they use this and only mean just that. The said part is that many African American women will proudly say that they are a man's "baby mama" and be glad to be called that. That is nothing to be proud of. This means you are degrading yourself. You should be proud to a woman and a mother. NOT a baby mama. It irks my nerves to hear women say "o he my baby daddy" or "o I'm his baby mama". STOP SAYING THAT BULL ISH. You are a mother of a child, not somebody's baby mama. I am a proud mother of a little boy who calls me his "mother". And I will forever be known as his mother, and not his father's baby mama.

~~~A Phenomenal Woman~~~