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The Tree Mothered Inquotes Hene Too Much and Failed to Foster Independence
Criticism that the tree fails to foster independence presumes it's supposed to do this. But that's not its job. It's his actual mother's job. Based on how this little rat turns out, it's clear they've failed. And it's called edipus ranos. The critics say the tree failed is a mother because they want teaching independence to be the metric of motherhood. But as they are mosogenists, their true target for re definition is fatherhood. No one criticised the tree for failing to teach the boy math, or for self cutting to gilt him into a debt. Its celebrated failure was not teaching him pendence, which you will observe,
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