Thank you - this is brilliant and the kind of thing I’ve avoided saying in case I upset those who cannot conceive or now I’m older those who don’t have children. only recently that I figured out that it’s the same for all women and you have put this into word so beautifully. Whether we do or don’t, want to or can’t , it cannot help but define us. how can we get young women to listen?
One of the cultural consequences of contempt/hatred for women is a necessary contempt/hatred for women’s primary product: human life. Human beings, born, nursed, carefully tended through those delicate preambulant prespeech years, functional human beings delivered to culture with the Human 23.0 software installed. The economy men have created (very well) has no room for it. All they can do for now is sell and buy human lives, and destroy them in their wars and other manufactured crises that further along their territorial interests and develop the technologies that will eventually make life redundant. What always surprises me though, is that despite the larger culture having virtually no respect and placing no cultural value on maternity, people still expect women to do it and they get angry when we don’t! It’s like everyone is hoping women are stupid enough to not recognize that motherhood is not valued by society, and aspire to a role they demean anyway.
Thank you - this is brilliant and the kind of thing I’ve avoided saying in case I upset those who cannot conceive or now I’m older those who don’t have children. only recently that I figured out that it’s the same for all women and you have put this into word so beautifully. Whether we do or don’t, want to or can’t , it cannot help but define us. how can we get young women to listen?
One of the cultural consequences of contempt/hatred for women is a necessary contempt/hatred for women’s primary product: human life. Human beings, born, nursed, carefully tended through those delicate preambulant prespeech years, functional human beings delivered to culture with the Human 23.0 software installed. The economy men have created (very well) has no room for it. All they can do for now is sell and buy human lives, and destroy them in their wars and other manufactured crises that further along their territorial interests and develop the technologies that will eventually make life redundant. What always surprises me though, is that despite the larger culture having virtually no respect and placing no cultural value on maternity, people still expect women to do it and they get angry when we don’t! It’s like everyone is hoping women are stupid enough to not recognize that motherhood is not valued by society, and aspire to a role they demean anyway.
This is such a great essay! We've turned away so much from our female bodies, as if they were curses, but our bodily powers are superpowers!!!