• modifier@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I can’t figure out why the fact that she’s a mom is the first thing in the headline.

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s people uncomfortable with female sexuality retreating back into the false madonna/whore dichotomy again. Unless a woman is very clearly one or the other, someone to worship or someone to hate, they get really upset.

      That’s exactly the kind of person this headline is crafted to attract, immediately juxtaposing the non-sexual purity of “mother” with the endless wanton sexual impurity of “whore” and causing both those mental images to clash, so people angry about sexuality in that way can click on it and hate her for not being one or the other and confusing their little heads. Clickbait rage, in other words. And it works.

      There’s also some crazy weird Freudian Oedipal shit all up in the whole idea too, but I can’t even begin to explain that so this is where I drop the link and walk away, lol.