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Op maandag 16 augustus 2004 21:36 schreef Bayer het volgende:
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Yep, zoals de leesmoeder of de oversteekmoeder hier.
Groepje moeders die met kinderen in het park gaat voetballen.
Soms heb je fanatics en die hebben een team en die spelen tegen die andere 'mom'-teams.
Voetbal is in de US echt een kindersport tot ongeveer je twaalfde, dan ga je een echte sport kiezen is de bedoeling. (Sport waarbij je je handen niet mag gebruiken vinden ze sowieso stupide)
Nee
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No one knows who invented the term "soccer mom." Newspaper articles about youth soccer reveal mothers themselves began using the term in 1987, long before it gained political currency. The first politician to utter the now-famous phrase was neither Bill Clinton nor Bob Dole but rather Susan Casey, who won a 1995 Colorado election with the slogan "A soccer mom for city council." During the campaign, political analysts of every stripe accused Casey of misrepresenting herself. Supporters said Casey -- who has a doctorate in international affairs and had worked on several national political campaigns -- was selling herself short by calling herself a soccer mom. Critics, meanwhile, accused her of using the phrase to hide the fact that she was a "political insider." But Casey stuck with the slogan to the end, telling reporters: "I have a Ph.D. and I've managed national presidential campaigns, but when I wake up in the morning and when I go to bed at night, my heart and soul are with my family."
Why did "soccer moms" capture the imagination of the nation? In 1996, these women were supposedly in the driver's seat, not only of the family minivan, but also of the presidential election. Soccer moms would win the election for Bill Clinton, just as "angry white men" had supposedly won a majority in congress for the Republicans in 1992. Or so the thinking went. Soccer moms, though living in traditionally conservative suburbs, were believed to be willing to break rank with their husbands and vote Democrat. They were the swing voters who would make or break the election. Throughout the campaign, both Clinton and Bob Dole bent over backwards to win soccer mom's‚ devotion, wooing them with promises of education reform, tax cuts, and longer hospital stays after childbirth.
During the 1996 election, dozens of conflicting definitions were proffered by the media. Everyone seemed to agree that soccer moms were overwhelmingly white and live in the suburbs, but the consensus ended there. Soccer moms might be married or divorced; they might be highly educated or college dropouts; full-time mothers or career women; professional or blue-collar; 35 years old or over 40; conservatives or democrats; "politically aware" or too "frazzled" to think about politics. In a tongue-in-cheek column for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sally Kalson declared, "You don't need to have a kid in soccer to be a soccer mom. All you need is some combination of the following: a kid or kids; a paying job; a nonpaying job; three places you're supposed to be at the same time; less than six hours sleep a night; the chronic sense that whatever you're doing, it isn't enough, and wherever you are, you should be someplace else."
Women who identify themselves as soccer moms always mean it in the literal sense. Renee Peck summed it up eloquently in her column in the New Orleans Times-Picayune in October, 1996: "Being a soccer mom means standing in wet grass at 7 a.m. on Saturday mornings, drinking cold coffee on the sidelines. It means weekend treks to places like Birmingham and Jackson, and checking in at midnight on Friday at the local Shoney's Inn. It means a minivan that smells like a locker room... It means filling up my car with gas (regular, self-serve) three times a week."
Politicians never talk about baseball moms or football moms or lacrosse moms because other sports don't enjoy the critical mass and passion. But it's more than the simple fact that soccer is the fastest-growing sport among American children. Frank DeFord, the celebrated Sports Illustrated writer, directly attributed the soccer mom phenomenon to the fact that so many girls play, pointing out that the United States "is the only country in the wold where soccer is naturally perceived as androgynous....In no other country are there soccer moms watching soccer daughters play."