My favorite part of Season 4 of Netflix’s House of Cards,
other than the return of Paul Sparks as writer Tom Yates, was when Claire
Underwood is asked whether she regrets not having children. Her response: “Do you
ever regret having them?”
That was cool. I thank whichever of the writers came up with
that.
Even when asked between two childless women, that’s an incredibly
personal and potentially heartbreaking question, since one could have tried
desperately to have children while the other never wanted them.
But in that scene, I think the woman asking the question was
really saying, “Don’t you wish you had my life?” which can often be the subtext
behind that question, along with a secret desire by the person asking it to have their life
choices validated by the other person admitting they regret theirs.
Instead, Claire lets her know that she likes her life
just fine, thank you.
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