"They can have any color they want...

....so long as it's black." ~Henry Ford

I'm sorry for anybody offended by the following, but...

Remember When Motherhood Wasn't Controversial?

Parker probably figured the news would be non-controversial, given that the fresh-faced Los Angeles Sparks forward and Olympic gold medalist is happily married to Sacramento Kings forward Shelden Williams. Both earn more than enough to support a family: Parker alone reaps millions on and off the court as one of the most celebrated women athletes in the world.

But Parker’s pregnancy was not greeted with the same approval and tolerance that many of today’s child-bearing sexagenarians and single mothers by choice enjoy when they form their families. Instead, Parker was blasted by fans and pundits for becoming a mother at age 22. Critics bemoaned her selfishness in putting maternal ambitions ahead of her team’s 2009 season prospects. Others lamented her foolishness for starting a family when she should be living a strings-free existence oriented around her glamorous career.

What the fuck?

Who the hell tells a woman that she has to put her career ahead of her family? I mean, this is a married woman, who is--along with her husband--financially well off, with a home of her own; this is not Nadya Suleman by a long shot. Yet, she's getting shit for putting her "maternal ambitions ahead of her team’s 2009 season prospects."?

I thought that one of points of feminism was that women should have the choice to pursue a career or be a mother or any other thing they wanted--when did that change?

“My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball,” Parker, a 22-year-old newlywed, said Friday in a telephone interview. “Now it’s time to please myself.” She added, “For me, family has always come first.”...

W.N.B.A. Commissioner Donna Orender said her initial reaction to Parker’s pregnancy was a quiet sigh of resignation. Then she thought of all the women in the more traditional workplace struggling with the issue of when or if to start a family, and she realized that Parker’s pregnancy provided a perfect modeling moment.

What the fuck?