Kristen Howerton wants everyone to calm down.
The Costa Mesa family therapist, who writes a local newspaper column and runs her own noteworthy blog, reports she is under siege from “anonymous armchair psychologists” after being quoted recently in The New York Times.
Her quote: no self-respecting, “cool” mom would drive her family around in a minivan.
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This was no surprise because Howerton's blog is named Rage Against the Minivan.
She told the Times, “[The minivan is] just a symbol of women becoming the invisible, exchangeable mom–the soccer mom, where we all look the same and no longer have a sense of what's cool.”
In response, Howerton reported on her blog that she has been inundated with “lots of e-mail and comments from strangers, letting me know how shallow I am for worrying about what kind of car I drive.”
Her reply to those who found her blog through the Times article?
“So, in case you've arrived here by way of that article and would like to inform me of how ridiculous I am: I KNOW. . . . I am also prone to exaggeration, dramatics, procrastination and hyperbole.”
The funny thing is that last year, Howerton and her husband caved in and bought a Toyota Sienna to haul around her large family.
You can see the
Times article
HERE and Howerton's entertaining blog
HERE.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
