I didn't realize men become men and women become mum.

 This morning I opened the news to see this article:

I started to wonder, why is she a mum with rare disease?  If she had a rare disease and wasn't a "mum" would she be "person"? Does one lose their "person-ness" when they have kids and then everything they do is "mum"?  

If these two people were mothers would the story read "mums start cheese company in local town?"

I clicked around for a while, seeing what mums and people were up to.  The first article I found about a dad was this awful one:

This is clearly a dad.  Why does a dad, in an article referencing an experience with his own child, get called a "man" while a woman who has a disease unrelated to children gets called a mum?

Tabitha Carivan had a great chapter about this is her book This is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbach.  When you have kids, you are a mom.  You are not a person who runs, you are a mom who runs.  You are not a working person, you are a working mom.  

Apparently, even when it comes to news, the world separated into is men, mothers, and other.  

I didn't realize that after kids my husband got to keep being "man" while I became "mum".