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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s obviously not wrong but 1) there’s nothing unique about his message, I recently read How to Raise an Adult, similar vibe, he’s covering well trodden ground, 2) calling out mothers when he even goes on to note it’s fathers too seems to be rather sexist, 3) it’s an odd article to run on Mother’s Day weekend, which I guess is as much the WP’s decision as Daniels, 4) I think the use of the really over the top examples dilutes the overall message - most people are not impersonating their kids.

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Citing a handful of egregious examples, that no one defends, over years of overseeing literally tens of thousands of students and parents, does not make him “not wrong” or “right” on the op Ed as whole — for which he’s egregiously wrong. [/quote]

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He's been college president for about a decade at a school that has well over 40k students.  He could have focused sensibly on the vast number of amazing ways the vast majority of parents helped prepare and support their students to help their institution thrive that he never even has to think about (except to ask for money). The vast majority of the over 100000 parents associated with his institution who just helped grow kids who thrive there and don't talk to him, his staff, the professors--just drop off and pick up their kids as needed and pay the bills. Instead he comes out with a few crazy stories out of the 100000 parents that reinforce deeply sexist stereotypes that he then uses to say "Hey, mothers, I love ya, but leave those kids alone."   The mother's day thing just makes it misogynistic and bad optics.  The whole thing is fraught with stereotyping and bad reasoning.[/quote]

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