In defense: Kate Austen as a mother

[aboutbunnies]

[for Women Fandom Hates Fest day 2]

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[aboutbunnies]

I think it has something to do, at least partially, however unconsciously, with the fact that we're products of a society that values biological motherhood over all other types, and assigns value to womanhood based on the ability to bear children (not raise, bear). Claire deserves the baby because she birthed him; Kate is not a legitimate mother because she didn't, yadda yadda yadda.

[ashmh]

It's amazing. This article was written a year after "LOST" went off the air. And people like you are still trying to make excuses for Kate. You may not find this pathetic, but I do.

[aboutbunnies]

I usually operate under a strict "don't feed the trolls" policy, but this was just too amusing to pass up. If you find writing this post a year after LOST ended pathetic, what does that say about you, reading it nearly two years after I wrote it?

Thanks for the chuckle! Much appreciated.

[anr]

*stands firmly on the right*

Word.

[aboutbunnies]

*high-fives the right*

:D

[ever_neutral]

Yep, everything you said. Amen.

[aboutbunnies]

:)

[aboutbunnies]

the mommy issue never even factors in the equation, for me., because really, honestly, she adores that boy.
Yes, this. Absolutely.

(I've read that fic like...three times already. I love it so.)

[aboutbunnies]

Thank you! ♥

I have issues with the lie, and didn't like it, but I understood it. Honestly, it was self-preservation, perhaps the basest of human nature. Not everyone could be Sawyer, jumping out of helicopters and all! I got it. Even though it ended up being an epic disaster.

See, I liked that back and forth with Kate, actually: she stopped running for Aaron - and then she started running again, for him. Again, perhaps not an action with the best of results, but I got it. It fit, to me.

The rest of the end, though? Yeah. Complete crap that I did not get at all.