“And then there’s the big one, the one nobody ever thinks about: time. Everybody longs for those home-cooked meals like in the Norman Rockwell paintings, but those meals only happened if Mom spent hours cooking them—most women literally spent most of their time in the kitchen. We make jokes about processed food and drive-thrus, but that stuff is the reason mothers are able to do literally anything other than chop potatoes and knead dough all day. And you can apply that to everything—it used to take much, much longer to shop, to correspond with friends, to travel, to bathe, to wash your
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