Such unworthy vessels
Glosswitch looks askance at the breeding stock view of women.
Pregnancy and childbirth – where would we be without them? Essential to the continuation of our very species, everyday phenomena don’t get more miraculous. It’s a pity they’re entrusted to such unworthy vessels.
It works out ok if you think of it as a purely mechanical process, which can be easily replicated by any decent engineer. Of course if you do that you may have trouble tracking down that decent engineer and finding any women willing to perform the purely mechanical process. It’s been a human tragedy all along, that women are such garbage yet nobody can have any babies without them.
Just look at the evidence: if the class of humans responsible for bringing forth new life aren’t too old, they’re too young. If they’re not too stressed, they’re too lazy. If they’re not getting distracted by book-learning, they’re leaving it too late to get themselves impregnated at all. If only this all-important job had been left to someone responsible (like, say, a man).
Or a decent engineer.
A headline in today’s Metro tells us that “British women are ‘woefully unprepared for pregnancy’ because they’re so unhealthy”. The article states, “large numbers of young women smoke, drink too much alcohol, are overweight or obese, and consume inadequate amounts of fruits and vegetables”.
Oh dear, what could be done about that…I know! Put them all under house arrest, and monitor their intake.
Well I read that article, and thought “yeah, our health education stinks, and there are a lot of things that affect fetal development that happen before a woman even gets pregnant (like developing proper levels of folic acid). The article also discussed how male health and its effect on fetal development needs a bit more research.
So while I agree that the way we view pregnant women is awful, I wish we could separate that view of pregnant women from discussion of broad health issues like folic acid levels in young women, most of whom will eventually become pregnant.
I know it’s not your point, but I have to say this is the funniest sentence I’ve read in a long time:
Anyway, at the risk of someone hitting me in the face with a brick, I’ll point out that apparently now men can have babies, too! So…problem solved?
(Sorry.)
A funny sentence is always my point.