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[anemone]

I went to a baby shower today. Oddly, I think the shower wasn't so much for the guest of honor as it was for her mother and aunts. She also had a bridal shower that seemed similar

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[sbtorpey]

I like your point about the odd way in which the ritual both welcomes a woman into a newly adult sisterhood with mothers-before-her and also at the same time babies that same woman by trying to pamper her with a public deluge of not-supposed-to-be-reciprocated gifts that resembles a very young child's birthday party more than any normal adult social event