Melodramatic moo authors goes off the deep end May 10, 2022 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,708 |
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We could afford to do this because a person can get paid more to sit in front of her computer and send a bunch of e-mails than she can to do a job so crucial and difficult that it seems objectively holy: to clean excrement off a body, to hold a person while they are crying, to cherish them because of and not despite their vulnerability.
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Melodramatic moo author
The work demanded creativity and intuition: spending a day alone with my infant daughter reminded me of shepherding a friend through a first-time acid trip, continually gauging whether she needed to look at a flower, or listen to music, or sob for ten minutes, or be alone in the dark. Caregiving was humiliating and transcendent and unending, and I was unnerved by how quickly it could decimate me.
Re: Melodramatic moo authors goes off the deep end May 11, 2022 | Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 129 |
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freya
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We could afford to do this because a person can get paid more to sit in front of her computer and send a bunch of e-mails than she can to do a job so crucial and difficult that it seems objectively holy: to clean excrement off a body, to hold a person while they are crying, to cherish them because of and not despite their vulnerability.
Cleaning excrement is holy to this bint; I'm sure many would be happy for her volunteer to do this for them. I'd LOVE to know how much she paid the nanny, the one she humble brags about being able to afford.
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freya
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The work demanded creativity and intuition: spending a day alone with my infant daughter reminded me of shepherding a friend through a first-time acid trip, continually gauging whether she needed to look at a flower, or listen to music, or sob for ten minutes, or be alone in the dark. Caregiving was humiliating and transcendent and unending, and I was unnerved by how quickly it could decimate me.
Is there some kind of strange award being handed out for the most melodramatic moo? It's a baybee, keep it fed, dry, clean, respond to it's banshee cries a few times a day to make sure it is breathing and give it an hour or two of interaction a day. That is it.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/can-motherhood-be-a-mode-of-rebellion?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Re: Melodramatic moo authors goes off the deep end May 11, 2022 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 3,576 |
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She was an editor at Jezebel before, so it's not social pressure or lack of contraceptives/abortion that made her sluice. I'm sure she had more choice in caregiving than the woman who chose to be her underpaid nanny.