Comment on Women were never meant to give birth on their backsparentComments−Terr_5moI can imagine these two inverse outrages being deployed almost simultaneously:* "When you call that parenting, you give unearned credit to men who aren't contributing, call it mothering."* "When you call that mothering, you're letting men escape their duty to contribute, call it parenting."Some sort of... prescriptive versus descriptive paradox, I bet it can be found in other contexts too.
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I can imagine these two inverse outrages being deployed almost simultaneously:
* "When you call that parenting, you give unearned credit to men who aren't contributing, call it mothering."
* "When you call that mothering, you're letting men escape their duty to contribute, call it parenting."
Some sort of... prescriptive versus descriptive paradox, I bet it can be found in other contexts too.