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I personally can't stand this sort of thing because it conflates something personal/intimate with a press release, and that's just kinda gross to me.
by rfrank 11y ago
I personally can't stand this sort of thing because it conflates something personal/intimate with a press release, and that's just kinda gross to me.
- 6stringmerc 11y agoOh for sure, there's a level of intimacy involved that, in a way, acts as a buffer against criticism. To criticise the lovely sentiment would be like pointing out a child making a half-dozen spelling errors in their letter to Santa Claus.
- rimantas 11y agoExcept in child case you don't doubt their sincerity. In this case I have doubts was this written by parents or by PR department.
- sevensor 11y agoContrast this with Ta-Nahesi Coates' public, yet deeply personal, Letter to My Son.
- throwaway999888 11y agoYou're saying that her daughter won't get the warm fuzzies in 20 years time over a PR release veiled as a "future note to our daughter"? Me neither.
- olewhalehunter 11y agoEither way, if Zuckerburg doesn't live up to his promise, his daughter is going to be as schizophrenic as the world her father helped create.
- overgryphon 11y agoParenting style doesn't cause schizophrenia.
- olewhalehunter 11y agoIf your parental style happens to include sexual abuse, yes it does. Whether a parental style consisting of a hyperreal social platform and being the child of the man who created it causes a serious rift in your sense of reality remains to be decided.
- goldenkey 11y agoIt causes latent anxiety issues which can cause drug use which can then then increase chance of mental and physical diseases.
- triangleman 11y agoHave you heard of the "double-bind hypothesis"?