# @thecut on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOywkpbk_q1
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34729267-thecut-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-19T20:00:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Cut (@thecut) — https://gondola.cc/thecut

## Caption

In the post-pandemic years, the limits of what’s sayable about motherhood have been loosely redrawn around softness and tenderness. Slowing down and doing less became chic, a mark of status and intelligence. It’s cool to take all your PTO — and damning to confess to being a workaholic. 

In the latest edition of #Brooding, Kathryn Jezer-Morton (kjezermo) explores how a mother admitting that her love of work comes at a cost to her family has become one of our rare bipartisan taboos. Subscribe to read it in full at the link in bio. 

Illustration: Hannah Buckman

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