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1. dwedge · 1789588932 · focus · HN ↗

   > She was up during the night pumping for her three-month-old baby and was scrolling through the comments and DMs, horrified. "At 4 a.m., I was holding my pump on my lap and replying to this person, 'I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it that way,'" she told me. "I was so into typing this message that I produced so much milk, it was dripping

   Articles like this always rub me the wrong way. I don't know the term for it, but I feel you should be able to make the point without making us picture a new mother getting stressed breast pumping in the middle of the night.

   1. mft_ · 1789589179 · focus · HN ↗

      I agree to a degree - it feels manipulative on the part of the writer, trying to exaggerate any sympathy a reader might feel.

      That said, I also feel that the level of negativity the lady suffered was a little out of proportion to her 'crime' - essentially amounting to bullying.

   2. ajkjk · 1789590029 · focus · HN ↗

      ya it's cheap sympathy-raising and should be condemned
   3. jackb4040 · 1789595126 · focus · HN ↗

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   4. donkey_brains · 1789611295 · focus · HN ↗

      Well I for one found it quite titillating
   5. siliconpotato · 1789624812 · focus · HN ↗

      This reads like fetish fiction. Maybe it is.
   6. km144 · 1789647912 · focus · HN ↗

      When I read that, the only thing I could think was &quot;holy shit get off your fucking phone&quot;. But I agree with you as well.

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