Friday, May 8, 2009

Today’s Video: Ode to Mother’s Day

To all the mamis (and mother figures) out there we wish you a very happy and enjoyable Mother’s Day!

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Defensores de Democracia said...

Thanks for this beautiful post of Anton Dvorak's Music

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Happy Latina Mother's Day.
Honoring Our Mothers and Wives.
Honoring All Women
The Strength of Women

To my Friend
"Dee" from Texas
She wrote this beautiful piece about Latina Mothers :

Latina Mother's Day: Consider the Blessed Children! They are the Lilies of the Field!

http://immigrationmexicanamerican.blogspot.com/2009/05/latina-mothers-day-consider-blessed.html

in her blog "Immigration Talk with a Mexican American"

Dear Dee :

The Latin American Culture is very Feminine as is apparent in your article.

Catholic Religion in Latin America is extremely Feminine. The Virgin is always dressed in the richest attires with pearls, gold, silver, jewelry, brocados, velvet, satins, etc ..

And Christ is always in agony ( kneeling or in four legs ) with lots of bleeding wounds, after heavy flogging, and with a crown of thorns. The Humiliated Male.

But we are here to honor feminine things and not to criticize and ridicule them.

It is true that Latin America is machista, with guys that have several women and "natural" children ( out of wedlock ).

But some people like me live inside a Comic "Bringing Up Father" or "Educando a Papá" and that is why that comic of George McManus has always been one of the most popular in Latin America.

In that Irish-American Comic Women are the stronger. Your husband is Irish, you have told us that publicly, so you may know a little about the Irish. Perhaps you are a Maggie "Ramona" to your Jiggs "Pancho". Those are the characters of that comic.

I consulted this website :

http://home.comcast.net/~cjh5801a/Jiggs.htm

Excerpts from the page of the "Bringing Up Father" Comic.

According to McManus, he began an intermittent daily strip in November 1911 (though it may have been later, McManus seems to have had a problem with dates) that included some characters who eventually became Jiggs and Maggie, but it wasn't until January 2, 1913 that the strip formally became known as Bringing Up Father. And it wasn't until 1916 that the strip began appearing as a daily on a regular basis, with Sunday strips following on April 14, 1918.

Bringing Up Father told the story of Irish-American Jiggs, a former bricklayer, and his wife Maggie, an ex-laundress, who achieved sudden wealth, supposedly by means of a lucky ticket in the Irish Sweepstakes (though McManus was a bit vague about their means of wealth in the strip, and the Irish Sweepstakes didn't come into being until 1930). While the snobbish Maggie and beautiful daughter Nora (referred to various times as Katy and Mamie in the strip's early days) constantly try to "bring up" Father to his new social position, Jiggs can think of nothing finer than sitting down at Dinty Moore's restaurant to finish off several dishes of corned beef and cabbage, followed by a night out with the boys from the old neighborhood. The clash of wills that ensued often resulted in flying rolling-pins, smashed crockery, and broken vases, all aimed in the general direction of Jiggs's skull.

In creating Bringing Up Father, McManus was heavily inspired by his recollections of a touring production of The Rising Generation that he had seen performed several times as a youth when it had played at the Grand Opera House in St. Louis, where his father served as manager. The Rising Generation, a musical comedy written by popular librettist William Gill, told the story of Martin McShayne (played by comedian Billy Barry in the production witnessed by the young McManus), an Irish-American bricklayer who becomes wealthy as a successful contractor. As McManus remembered the play, McShayne's socially ambitious wife and daughter were ashamed of his uninhibited naturalness and couldn't abide his old pals, which forced McShayne to sneak out whenever he wanted to meet the boys for a game of poker.

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I identify myself very strongly with Jiggs "Pancho" and sometimes I feel like having a Maggie "Ramona" at home.

But to tell you the true, I am happy and would never consider divorce. I am too lucky of having married a Great Latina Lady.

Marriage is the Revenge of Women against Men -- But I like my condition. I would not like to be a lone sad dog walking the streets.

Note : My comment is not 100% true. This is for entertainment. My Maggie may hit me if she finds that I wrote this.

Milenials.com

Vicente Duque

12:26 PM

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