Monday, 24 May 2010

It's Not Your Womb, Bitches

One of my favorite websites is Dlisted, run by the funniest guy on the internet, Michael K. I usually don't care about half the people he talks about, but he's just that funny that I read his every post. Today, he posted that Rihanna, singer and former punching bag for Chris Brown, is wary of having babies because she is afraid of giving birth. She mentioned that she might even adopt. The comment section exploded.


I am no fan of Rihanna's. I've probably heard a song or two that she's done, but because it's not my type of music, I don't pay attention and could care less. I do understand her sentiment, though. I have chosen not to have children for many reasons (saving the environment is NOT one of them), including not wanting the responsibility of raising another human being, but also because the idea of child birth freaks me out. It's more than just the pain involved, or the idea of pushing something that big out of my body. Human child birth physically makes me sick. I don't want to see it happen, I don't want to hear about it any more than a guy wants to hear about someone getting kicked in the nuts. I have nothing against children, but for me, they are not worth that kind of trauma. I'm not bothered. My biological clock never even had a working battery, and I have all the maternal instinct of an ornery alligator.

Of course, when a woman says that, you get an outcry from women like some of the commenters on Michael K's post. A post like this always attracts certain types, too. See if you can spot them on the site.

1. We get the Bitter Bleeding Heart , who thinks that just because some women are sadly unable to have children when they want them, that anyone that can should regardless of their feelings on the matter, because only her feelings, and the feelings of all the barren women on the planet count.

2. There is the Tale Teller that takes great joy in posting every gory detail of her three deliveries in an effort to somehow prove that it's no big deal and anyone that doesn't do it is missing out. Attitude that she is the only woman who has ever experienced the miracle of birth so profoundly is always included. She probably has her kids' placentas framed.

3. The Earth Mother automatically assumes that a woman who doesn't want a child is just being vain and that they are not fulfilling some higher feminine purpose by spurting a little person out of their lady parts. These are also the type of women that relish in the mystique of having periods and have tasted their own period blood at least once.

4. The Name Caller just calls said woman a bitch with no explanation as to why they feel that way. They probably don't even know what they are commenting about, but still deserved mention because you always get at least one.

Let's all get something straight, ladies - you do what you want with your womb and leave other women alone to do what they want with theirs. Might make you less of a stupid bitch if you do.

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