Woman = Flowerpot

[morgan_dhu]

Notice to all persons who have uteri.

It doesn't matter if you're Mary Magdalen or Mary Jones from around the corner, you are a flowerpot.

You may be a flowerpot that doesn't have any earth in it yet and can't grow anything until you get some, a flowerpot containing lots of earth but no precious seed - yet, a flowerpot just about to bring forth its bounty of blossoms, or an old cracked pot that can't hold water, earth or seed any more, but never forget that you are a flowerpot.

Has nothing changed since I was ten years old and being taught by some idiot what to expect now that I was "becoming a woman"? Are women to be forever assessed in terms of the content of their wombs, and not the content of their characters?

Comments

[mishaslair.livejournal.com]

I suddenly feel like taking up drinking and smoking.

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're already doing you bit every time you clean out the cat litter. ;-)

Seriously, this fits right in with the movement to ban pregnant women from making decisions about the risks they chose to take. Sure, I'm all for making sure people know that drinking, smoking, taking certain drugs, etc, are thinga that can affect both your own health and the health of a fetus you have chosen to carry, but the law has to stop at forcing women into detox centres or jails or addiction programs becasue they are pregnant - or, given this new direction in public health thinking, might become pregnant.

I am just getting so frustrated...

Rant, rant, rant.