Do you also feel uncomfortable when people use the words adopt and foster when it comes to pets? They’re also child-related words but I feel like those aren’t as controversial to people.
Freud is regarded as the “father of psychiatry” and Aristotle as the “father of biology.” Plenty of people who invented or had significant contributions to their field are considered “father/mother”
Good point. What if the word was mother or father instead of mom and dad? There are definitely more generalized uses of that, like fatherland or mother nature.
Do you also feel uncomfortable when people use the words adopt and foster when it comes to pets? They’re also child-related words but I feel like those aren’t as controversial to people.
Because those words are not just for children.
Like early-adopters is about new technology. And fostering can be about pride.
But mom and dad is only in relation to a child in a family. Never a pet.
It is about a pet quite often, hence this discussion…
Never a pet? Isn’t the thing that they were annoyed about, that it always happens with pets?
Father of invention
Mother of dragons
Freud is regarded as the “father of psychiatry” and Aristotle as the “father of biology.” Plenty of people who invented or had significant contributions to their field are considered “father/mother”
Good point. What if the word was mother or father instead of mom and dad? There are definitely more generalized uses of that, like fatherland or mother nature.