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After that, it doesn't look like she did much else. She raised her children and became a volunteer Not a great way to phrase things...
by alain94040 11y ago
After that, it doesn't look like she did much else. She raised her children and became a volunteer
Not a great way to phrase things...
- utefan001 11y agoI agree, that is shameful. Each year I take a week of from work to care for my 2 children when my wife goes out of town. Hardest week of my entire year!
- scottw 11y agoPhrased as perceived. The author is probably too young to appreciate what his mother likely did for him. Becoming a parent has a tendency to change your perspective on parenthood.
- pcurve 11y agoYep, I think it's just poor phrasing. I just read it as "it doesn't look like she pursued her career further" I don't think the author meant to downplay difficulty of child rearing.
- kbenson 11y agoOr we've all just become hypersensitive to something that doesn't necessarily mean what you are implying. ...is what I was going to reply with, with examples of how replacing the component parts of the sentence may change how it's interpreted. Then I looked at the source article, and saw that it's a followup sentence after describing how she sued Microsoft for sexual discrimination. Regardless of how it was meant to be interpreted, that's some pretty poor awareness of context on the author's part.