Indiequill analyses the “mother-daughter test”, in which one is supposed to

take a given set of circumstances and try to imagine someone dear to you in that scenario to check whether you’d be inclined to let it stand. It’s been applied to everything from MF Hussain’s paintings to IPL cheerleaders - as in, would you be okay with Hussain using your mother as a model or your daughter working as a cheerleader for an IPL match?

Quite apart from the obvious issues with the phrasing, she concludes that it simply doesn’t work that well. Here’s why.

As she says at the end of her post, “If you want to empathize, why can’t you do it on your own time and in your own skin - why drag other people into it?”