[bluetomcat]

One thing is to complain about excessive or mistargeted marketing, another is to complain about marketing which is almost properly targeted, but hurts your inner self because a soulless algorithm decided that most married women above 30 have children.

[brazzy]

Not the case here, but what about someone who just had a child die from cancer or suicide?

[bluetomcat]

That would be an entirely different moral case where negative, soul-crushing emotions are inevitable and justified. It wouldn't be solved by rewording the email to "in case you have kids". The least of your problems in such cases is mistargeted emails. The same emotion can be triggered just by looking at other people's playing kids or even from passing by a toy store.

What we're dealing with here is nothing like that. It's inflated egocentrism where one thinks that the whole world should respect their personal willful decisions, when no harm in any meaningful way is being done when they are ignored.