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ms626 · 3786 days ago · link · · parent · post: Is saying "thank you" to childless women sympathetic or patronizing?
I started to read it as the author "congratulating" me for realizing I could never hack it as a parent. Why is reproducing seen as a "given?" It's 2013, shouldn't we have moved slightly beyond biological imperatives at this point? I once read a study that said art criticism is more a reflection of the viewer than the artist. Perhaps congratulations fall into the same category.