Nope!

Promoting some garbage film that will be out next summer (whut?) about a couple who wish a child into existence, actress Jennifer Garner said she "understands her character's yearning [for a child because] 'There's no deeper want for a woman' than to be a mother."

Nope!

For some women. Not all women.

This is seriously like the hundredth article I've read in which an actress cast as a mother says the same thing.

It aggravates me because it is not true, and because it disappears women who don't want children as well as women who do want (or have) children but want something else even more, but it also grieves me because I suspect that the actresses who say this, most of whom are in their 30s and starting to find that the film industry is offering them increasingly fewer roles besides "mom," are saying this thing, at least in part, to try to imbue with greater importance the only role they are allowed to fill.

I can imagine it feels less demeaning to play "mom" over and over, if you believe that "mom" is the best and only role that women really want to play.

Maybe I wouldn't have read a hundred actresses offering some variation on "motherhood is woman's true nature" if actresses played astronauts and scientists and cops and writers and assassins and ranchers and politicians and thieves and sculptors and loggers and ophthalmologists as often as they played mothers. Is what I'm saying.

Not that those vocations and motherhood are mutually exclusive pursuits, anywhere else in the world besides the Big Screen.