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

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

If the wingnuts have their way, we will.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Can I kick this one (http://community.livejournal.com/feminist/2528879.html?thread=72137583#t72137583) in a way to make him consider his reproductive choices? Pleeease?

[mishaslair.livejournal.com]

I suddenly feel like taking up drinking and smoking.

[ladydaera.livejournal.com]

And clearly basic guidelines for health need only apply to women capable of producing babies for the propagation of humankind. Girls and post-menopausal women need not mind their health. Hahah. All of those things are what people should be doing anyway - regardless of whether they're male or female. Sticking them as requirements specifically for menstruating women is just... insulting. On so many levels. For everyone. (Refraining from using any other adjectives)

[guyindkny.livejournal.com]

OMG. So...women can't be trusted to take care of their own bodies, so we need to scare them into it? Oh, and you can pretty much add eating fish to the list of "Thou Shalt Not"s for women of childbearing years, as you wouldn't want to inadvertantly expose any potential foetuses to mercury... *shakes head*

[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.

[sauscony.livejournal.com]

This makes me feel like throwing up. I guess this shouldn't surprise me considering all of the reproductive rights that are already being taken away, but it's all so ridiculous.