childbirth etc.

[3DEM11 at QUCDN.QueensU.CA]

[de-lurk...yah, I'm back so soon]

All this talk about painful childbirth...I know a woman who
said it wasn't painful at all; just the opposite--like a climax.
It isn't nature that has screwed over women, it's culture and the
cultural contexts of childbirth and menstruation.  It's the way
midwives were exiled by orthodox (read patriarcal) medicine, the
way hysteria was associated with our organs,the way menstruation has lost
its cool original ideology as a cyclical return in tune with the cosmos.
If it wasn't so cool why has it been imitated by men?  Ever seen the
book, "The Island of Menstruating Men," by the by?  And that wound in

Christ's side, what is that?  I've seen medieval drawings of it
which remind of Paul's metaphor.
And you know, I'd rather be hoofed in the nuts than go under the knife
for a hysterectomy.  And another thing: all you guys puking over
Schwitterz's awesome posts...there's documented evidence that men
can lactate.  Even you testosterone loaded guys up to your eyes in
puke.