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

[wolfinthewood.livejournal.com]

If infants are dying in large numbers in the US because of low birth-weight, as the report says, then the obvious reason is that their mothers are malnourished - either because they can't afford to eat properly or because they are living on 'fast food' and similar crap.

As for the large number of birth defects - would the lack of a decent free universal medical system bear any responsibility for those? I bet it does. Then there are environmental issues.

All this is classic 'blame the poor for the trap they are in' stuff.

And it is cheaper to order doctors to nag their patients than to fix the real problems.

I also think this is probably intended to help advance the agenda of the anti-abortionists. Who also want to see women primarily as receptacles for foetuses.

I hope US women, collectively, tell their doctors and the federal authorities to get lost. But they probably won't, because of the power doctors wield.

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I believe this expression of the basic partriarchal mindset of woman=fertile womb is definitely being exacerbated by the fact that huge numbers of women in the US have little or no access to health care, either for themselves or for prenatal care.

The men at the top look these women having unhealthy babies and reason that it can't be the fault of the glorious free enterprise system of medicine, it must be becasue these stupid women don't realise they could get pregnant at any time. and of course, becasue of the lack of effective sex education and the assorted limitations on contraception and abortion, many US women have less control over whether they get pregnant or not.

There's certainly a very strong reaction to this among the US women I know, but then... there is some question as to whether the US women I know are representative of the "average" US woman. ;-)