On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Brown, R Ken wrote:
In the middle of an interesting article about digital cash, forwarded here by Bob Hettinga, there was the line:
After all, the kind of soccer moms who elected Bill Clinton
"Divided by a common language" as I am I genuinly don't know what that means. And I can't even guess from context. I'd have expected a dig at liberals or feminists or welfare recipients at that point; and I can't work out what soccer has to do with it.
Do mothers play soccer much in the USA?
etc... The answer you search for is: In US primary schools (mostly in affluent suburbs), soccer (football) is a very popular fall/winter sport for ages 7-14. Soccer moms are the mothers that haul their sons and daughters around after school and on Saturday mornings in minivans to these games. "Soccer moms" connotes a particular kind of woman. Its difficult to give you an exact definition although its usually slightly deragatory. Lets try to describe her: Middle to Upper Middle class White Mid-thirties Average Intelligence Thinks Bill Clinton is a Stud Probably a Career Mom and thinks working 9-5 in a big corporate arcology is a pretty neat thing (not relative to unemployment, but relative to others who think its a trap) Probably religious, either WASP, Catholic or Statist. This, at least, is the stereotype. YMMV. Jim