i feel guilty now because i did this recently, but i was just speaking from my experience. my dad knows computers, my mom doesn't. Maybe the kids who all grew up with phones in their hands will change this. I grew up without internet, so we are the last wave.
I called out someone on a twitter space earlier for using “his mom” as a foil for a non-technical person who might struggle to understand self custody
this is something I’ve thought about quite a bit — i wrote up some longer thoughts on the overusage of “mom” as a know-nothing tech person 6y ago
tldr: i understand why it’s something people reach for natively but im not sure it’s a good idea to keep casting implicit shade on mother’s capacity for understanding (even if in your case, it’s a true statement)
https://basicbitch.software/posts/2018-08-05-Dear-Mother.html
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it’s lindy for a reason, it probably won’t ever change 😂