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briandmyers  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lactose intolerance

    Entering the world via a food factory is handy

<pedantic_jerk_mode> "Via" means "by way of" or "through" - from the Latin word for "road". I don't think that's what you want here. Maybe "with" instead? </pedantic_jerk_mode>





b_b  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Disagree. I think he's referring to the mother as a good factory. One certainly enters via one's mother. There's no other way so far as I'm aware.

briandmyers  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, I see. I was thinking of the actual breast as the food factory.

Mea culpa, mea culpa

lil  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Having once been a food factory myself, I got it right away.

wasoxygen  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You sell yourself short. You are an entire nurturing infrastructure. Thanks lil!

wasoxygen  ·  3641 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you in any case; I appreciate the attention, pedantic or not (in fact, I don't understand why pedant is even a slur). b_b got my intended meaning: I was objectifying the entire woman with the metaphor.