I am making the distinction "between being a mother" (the noun) as "giving birth" and "mothering" (the verb) as "the multi-year process of mothering a child." Lobsters give birth, and then completely ignore the eggs. You, as an adoptive mother, did not give birth but are mothering a child. AsI don't know you, and know nothing about the state of your reproductive organs, I have no idea what you can or cannot do in the future.
If you consider the nouns to be the small limited set of things you are -- human, female, alive -- then "mother" clearly doesn't belong in that category. (Although honestly, I don't care. I just didn't want to use "mother" as a verb and have Peg complain that it isn't a verb because it technically has nothing to do with what she does day to day, but is a physical fact about her body.)
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Date: 2005-07-16 01:07 pm (UTC)If you consider the nouns to be the small limited set of things you are -- human, female, alive -- then "mother" clearly doesn't belong in that category. (Although honestly, I don't care. I just didn't want to use "mother" as a verb and have Peg complain that it isn't a verb because it technically has nothing to do with what she does day to day, but is a physical fact about her body.)
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