Painterly small baby shoes and a loose pink ribbon on rumpled dusty-rose fabric.

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Melanie

The thing about parenthood is that you don’t get anonymus sex breaks twice a day.

— Queer as Folk

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Melanie describes parenthood's demands through an outrageously specific lost privilege. Treating anonymous sex twice a day as though it were a normal scheduled break gives the complaint its comic force. Raising children is contrasted with an exaggerated picture of unrestricted personal freedom.

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