Ken Burch
1 min readJul 4, 2020

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"Oven dodger" is a reference to Jews being thrown alive into the ovens at Auschwitz and other places. It wouldn't make sense to use the phrase about a woman who didn't have children because, in the "buns in the oven" metaphor, the woman IS the oven.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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