Hats off To Mom

Another Mother’s Day. Another promotional giveaway.

This year it was a giant red sun hat, otherwise known as “The Giveaway That Ate My Mother.” Don’t get me wrong. I love red floppy hats, but this wide brimmed beauty was a bit too much for me.

But that’s not the point of this post.

At about 12:30, as many moms and their families were still entering the stadium, the Angels ran out of the giant hats. Granted, I wasn’t too disappointed, but many women around me felt cheated out of their special Mother’s Day hat. I don’t blame the Angels. I blame Alfred Rava.

He’s the LA attorney who threatened to sue the Angels in 2006 because he believed that giving Mother’s Day gifts to mothers only was discriminatory. According to Mr Rava, men should have the right to wear ridiculous, floppy sunhats with pretty blue ribbons just like the women. His lawsuit went away and so did Mother’s-Only giveaways at Angels Stadium. 

So yesterday afternoon, thanks to Rava, I sat among grown men looking silly in sunhats while many moms, who should have been honored, were hatless. Something is definitely wrong with this picture.