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[quote=Anonymous]It is a made-up holiday designed to get people to buy stuff.

There are plenty of opportunities throughout the year to show your mother you love her.  This notion that we have to have a holiday for it is absurd.  It's all part of our consumer-centric culture.

I think the biggest issue I have with Mother's Day is it brings out all of the FB posts that insinuate a woman is not fully a woman unless she is a mother.

If our society really cared about mothers, then we would do more to give them support (affordable child care, paid family leave).  If our society really valued parents, we wouldn't keep pushing this notion that if you only work 40 hours, you aren't dedicated or a hard enough working.  We'd be more committed to work-life balance.

But we don't do that.  Instead, we make a day where people feel pressured to buy $4 cards and flower arrangements and go out for an overpriced meal, and then we all pat ourselves on the backs and talk about how sacred motherhood is.

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