Oh yes, I hadn't stated it in my entry, but yes, absolutely I can read it as either bad male/female relationships in general or unbalanced mother/child relationships in particular. And of course it's the mother, not the father: after all, in our culture it's the mothers who are sooooo extolled by everyone for being utterly self-sacrificing (especially politicians, who don't want to actually pay them or support them for for the work they do).
And of course, if we can hoodwink/brainwash mothers into thinking total self-abnegation, even self-annihilation in the service of parenting is admirable, it gets the rest of society (especially those parsimonious politicians) off the hook.
Of course, you end up with yet the next selfish generation and a lot of destroyed mothers. Tree stumps indeed. Argh.
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Date: 2005-01-12 04:31 pm (UTC)And of course, if we can hoodwink/brainwash mothers into thinking total self-abnegation, even self-annihilation in the service of parenting is admirable, it gets the rest of society (especially those parsimonious politicians) off the hook.
Of course, you end up with yet the next selfish generation and a lot of destroyed mothers. Tree stumps indeed. Argh.