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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.

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