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Is it equally valid to complain about seeing ads for Mother's Day gifts when your mother was a drug addict and extensively abusive? Because that applies to me personally, and let me tell you, during the entire lead up to Mother's Day, and all the ads they make claiming how much your mother gives up for you, and loves you, and cherishes you... I don't complain even a bit.
Because other people have mothers who do love them. And they're the target of those ads, not me.
How disgustingly privileged it is to proclaim that since you aren't the target of advertising, it shouldn't exist.
Ads for Mother’s Day gifts are indeed valid to complain about, regardless of one’s situation, because they cheapen their bond between mother and child to a transactional relationship, not uplift moms.
I’d wager that because were the targets of advertising, it shouldn’t exist. Ok my problem isn’t with advertising, per se, but with the insane shit it’s been since Bernays.