Mother’s Day ‘Opt Out’ Movement Is Condemned as Woke Plot To Cancel Women

The movement to forgo Mother’s Day observances was started out of respect to those mourning mothers lost due to Covid. It’s now being denounced as a woke rejection of womanhood.

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Major League Baseball players wear pink to mark Mother’s Day, May 8, 2022, at Baltimore. AP/Gail Burton

Big corporations are receiving backlash as they send emails offering recipients the choice of opting out of Mother’s Day communications. While the campaign has been used in previous years to support people who have lost a parent and women who are experiencing difficulties conceiving, Twitter users are claiming it’s an “anti-family” initiative aimed at “canceling women.”

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