Last week, the internet’s collective ovaries exploded when Apple joined Facebook in announcing that it would now be covering elective egg freezing as part of its benefits package. The practice, Apple announced, in a slightly tone deaf press release, was intended to “empower women at Apple to do the best work of their lives as they care for loved ones and raise their families.”

Perhaps it was this “best work of their lives” phrasing, which made the company’s female employees sound like shiny, worker-automatons, that flipped the freak-out switch. Maybe it was simply the public statements about what still sounds like a futuristic procedure: egg freezing. Whatever the reason, critics, many of them very smart critics, erupted in a wave of surprisingly angry response.

Egg freezing benefits encourage women to delay childbearing and devote peak familial years to economic and professional ambition, said some. What we need is not just fertility technology but daycare, said others. These kinds of “corporate perks” are just part of a scheme to keep women (and men) laboring endlessly, and are symptomatic of a broken work culture that leaves us no time for leisure, family, or personal thriving. This is another attempt by the female-unfriendly tech industry to trick women into giving the best parts of their lives to it. Egg freezing is an unproven new technology, with comparatively low success rates. Egg freezing, which involves hormone shots and chemicals used in flash-freezing process, may have long term side-effects that we don’t yet know about. It’s dangerous to convince young healthy women that their window of fertility is flexible.

Many of these arguments are very, very sound. But then again, the soundest of them could be made any day, in response to nearly any event.

Did the sun rise this morning? Right: We need more federally mandated paid parental leave and subsidized daycare policies. Did you or someone in your family or social circle feel compelled to respond to a work email that arrived after 8 p.m.? Yes, that’s because we have an oppressive work culture that is not healthy and is slowly destroying us. Did you eat a gluten-free muffin spread with butter made from a cow that may have been given rBST and heavy doses of antibiotics on your way to a job that is not going to pay for a day of parental leave and at which you probably get paid less than your male colleague? Oh my god, we need better studies on the long-term effects of injecting synthetic hormones and antibiotics into our food and also on what happens when we remove all the gluten from foods in which gluten is supposed to occur in nature. Also: Did I mention equal wage protection?