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?

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[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. ;-)