Popular literature manipulates with subjective language to compete for resources.
Language manipulates people and people in turn manipulate language everyday to shape their needs. When the language of love and nurture is missing from a close relationship like mother and daughter, the emotional loss hardly ever fades away completely.
However, using one's personal situation in lieu of publicity or advertising cheapens the loss, because now it is put up for sale. If the resource lost is a parent, parenthood is marketed. Speaking of supply and demand, Hope Edelman's Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss easily romances its readers with its heartfelt subjective language. In other words, readers are lured into the world of ornamental language already used to condition many generations of female relationships as something they are not. This ad-hocs the process all over again and displaces personal responsibility, given a lifetime of conditioning and language also conflating emotional conviction for fact.
Although no one is going to deny Edelman's personal truth, the fact is that very few want to consider that mother and daughter are competing for the same resources. In effect, popular literature manipulates and romanticizes with subjective language by feeding into an emotional hype sometimes crying wolf while competition for resources is a more objective agenda behind closed doors.
