Aren't mothers just sort of... like this?

ThisTroper once suggested a JewishMother to a friend who was looking for a convincing way of splitting up an OfficialCouple for fanfiction purposes. It honestly felt like the most reasonable way of doing it.

TruthInTelevision. Oh, is it ever truth in television. And thanks to the information age, it's easier than ever to receive an e-nag. Oy, with the nagging.

This Jewish troper's mother is not ''quite'' as bad. Her sister's mother-in-law on the other hand fits this trope like a glove.

Constant IM's, here. And then she gets mad when ''I'' IM her. Replies generally come back as 'I'M BUSY!!!'. Imagine this being screeched in a distinctly harpy-like tone, so much so that this troper's friends (who are terrified of her) call her 'your harpy mother'.

This troper's mother and aunt are subversions. They're Jewish, but they can't stand people like this, possibly due to the fact that everyone ''else'' on their side of the family play it straight as an arrow.

This troper has friend, 24, whose JewishMother refuses to let her get a tattoo, on pain of forever being banished from the house. We like to tease her by telling her to bring a tent next time she visits. Did I mention this is also the person who once sneaked bacon into her mother's house?

This Troper's mother is nothing like this, thankfully. This is a contrast to all my friends, whose mothers have led them to being somewhat sheltered and naive.

In Israel, all non-Arab mothers are Jewish (Well, most) so that phrase doesn't work. Instead we have Ima Polaniya (Polish Mother). The irony in this is that my mother is the only actually Polish mother out of all of my friends', but she fits the stereotype the least, and I'm the only person out of my friends who doesn't lie to his parents. It's led me to believe that kids without limitations become people who fit in limitations the best.

My mother tries so badly to NOT be one of this, but...she doesn't seem to get it right...

My mother ''embraces'' this stereotype, although rather than Jewish she's an Arab Muslim (how's that for irony). Constantly trying to set me up with "nice Arab girls," not realizing that I'm ''twenty-one'' and this is ''America''. She's lucky I wanted to be a lawyer, anyway.

Isn't this with any mother that isn't second generation American or Canadian?

Devoutly religious mothers can be this way as a whole: as far as outside Jewish mothers, nobody nags like a devout Mexican Catholic mother/grandmother...bonus points if she continuously drinks from the tequila bottle...

OK, I have a "devout Mexican Catholic mother" AND I had a ''very'' "Mexican grandmother" (her Catholicism was pretty much a nonentity since she only converted to marry my ''aubelito'' -- she was raised Presbyterian) and I can vouch for how nagging and guilt-trippy they could both be. Grandma was too much of a "lady" to drink and Mom was too afraid of becoming addicted to drink to actually drink, so neither would've even touched a bottle of tequila, but this gave my mom another reason to nag me when she found out I (''*gasp*'') drank a whole pint of Guinness with my meal at a British pub! And my mom always finds a way to guilt-trip me into doing things ''she'' wants to do instead of things I want to do (I'm her caretaker so she lives with me at my house) and has a very selective memory, i.e. she'll remember the slightest slights forever, but will forget what a doctor told her the day after an appointment. If it weren't for the fact that my mom has always been a crappy cook and was a health freak when I grew up (largely in {{The Eighties}}), my mom would positively ''live'' the Jewish Mother trope.

This troper isn't Jewish, because his mother isn't Jewish, but she might as well be sometimes this or KnightTemplarParent. Sometimes, for instance, when things concerned his Eurasian OlderThanTheyLook ex-girlfriend, it really ''was'' for his own good... (Considering his mother's maiden name was Pieper, a permutation of Pfeffer, he may very well be of Jewish descent. Oy vey...)

This troper is Jewish, but his mother is not like this at all (except about tattoos). His girlfriend's Cuban Catholic mother, on the other hand...

This troper's mother and grandmother are Presbyterian, but still fit this pretty well. His mother never fails to mention how she expects to be a grandmother one day, and his grandmother nags that he needs to find "the right woman" who will "put up with" him. 'Twill be a funny day when he comes out. Other common utterances from my grandmother are "one day I'll be dead. Then you'll be sorry!" and "Your grandfather and I could have retired to the beach if we hadn't wasted so much money sending you to a good Christian school." She wields guilt like a bludgeon, to the point that I actually don't feel guilt anymore. It's funny 'cause it was counterproductive.

Oy vey, so much nagging this troper has endured! The entire maternal side of his family uses guilt-based discipline almost exclusively.

This troper has a Jewish mother, a Jewish grandmother, an aunt who lampshades trope...in short, most of this troper's female family act like this.

This Troper's mother, despite being Jewish, was not a JewishMother as presented in the stereotype. However, two close friends of his mother, both act that way towards him, causing many a FacePalm.

My Jewish father sure acts like this sometimes. He nags a lot and when I don't do things right away, he makes me do them by making it clear just how much he's ''worrying''... At least he once apologized for nudzing me all the time. And so far he's settled for "my daughter, the student at a highly prestigious college," and (before he got laid off after seventeen years -- I could kvetch for an hour about that) he used to tell his coworkers all about that. And I was always surprised that he just had to tell them every little detail of how brainy and successful he thinks I am.

This troper's Italian Catholic mother has some shades of this. She's a loving person, but (sometimes) shows it by nagging and/or guilt-tripping. She can nag (and e-nag!) and guilt-trip like the best of 'em!

This troper's mother, though she is getting better. My oldest sister is trying to avert this with her son, but my other sister plays this trope straight with her son, ''especially'' in the neurotic department. Her mother-in-law (who is also Jewish) plays this even straighter than all of us.

This Troper can attest that this trait is most likely cultural, not hereditary. I come from a heavily Italian family, but my aunt married a Jewish man (and converted), and today she plays this trope to a T.

This Troper's mother is just like this. Combine that with the troper being a literal thinker and some really laughable situations happen. Example: "Go with your boyfriend. Don't worry about me. I'll go alone to the church!" (Troper's bisexual). Troper: "OK, mom, see you!". The Troper's father received all the resulting shrapnel and gave the Troper a massive nag.

This Catholic Troper was explaining the concepts of Saints. When I told him Mary was considered the most important saint, without missing a beat, he jumped on the fact that who better to make a case to Jesus than his Jewish mother.

This troper's (Catholic) mother is such a JewishMother that my entire life I've been convinced that she was born in the wrong faith. It also doesn't help that she has a thick New York accent. This theory was finally validated by her boyfriend (who is Jewish) after he came over to dinner with my parents for the first time. We were having a nice meal. She's all giddy that he's pre-med, which of course leads to her nagging me about my chosen major. Any way, the fact that he's Jewish comes up, so my mother jokes, "Why can't you ever just bring home a nice Catholic boy?" His reply: "Wow, your mother's more Jewish than mine."

This troper's mother doesn't really fit the trope; my family jokes about Jewish guilt frequently and most of the time, it doesn't work when invoked. As for my mother's Long Island Jewish side of the family, though, oy vey. It's bad enough that her grandfather comes dangerously close to invoking the oldest trope concerning Jews at times.

This troper has a Jewish Grandmother, and he isn't even Jewish! (Short answer: my gentile mother was adopted by a Jewish family.) Since I'm not Jewish, there's no pressure to marry a "nice Jewish girl", and judging by how my uncle (who is her biological offspring, unlike my mother) married a gentile, there likely wouldn't be even if I ''was'' Jewish. However, she ''is'' a full-on Education Grandmama, watching over my work well into college. And she's from Queens, complete with the accent.

This Troper has two of these in her life, and neither of them are even Jewish. My mother almost converted to Orthodox Judaism but decided at the last minute that Buddhism was cooler, although she acts like a stereotypical JewishMother, even calling herself "your poor old mom". Her paternal grandmother is from Poland, and she fits the Israeli stereotype (she was in Palestine for a while in the early 1940s, maybe that had something to do with it?), constantly nagging my dad and her other children.