childbirth etc./NO P CONTENT!

[calbert at pop.tiac.net]

Dana submits:

> All this talk about painful childbirth..

Which you have endured how many times?

> It isn't nature that has screwed over women, it's culture and the
> cultural contexts of childbirth and menstruation. 

So no-one needs epidurals, just culture adjustment.

> 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.

Are women better off with or without obstetricians and gynecologists? 
Are women who practise these arts collaborators?
I'm beginning to wonder if you should be allowed to read without 
supervision.

> 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?

Hate to disappoint, but I've never wanted to, never heard of the 
book, and have never heard it mentioned by any of my co-conspirators.


> And that wound in
> Christ's side, what is that?

Always thought some roman poked him with a spear. But now that you 
mention it, I guess one would have to spontaneously grow a vulva in 
order to get into heaven.

> And you know, I'd rather be hoofed in the nuts than go under the knife
> for a hysterectomy.

Now let's see, one thing I haven't experienced is undeniably .... 
than another thing I have never experienced.


>.there's documented evidence that men
> can lactate. 

And that women can reason...

> Even you testosterone loaded guys up to your eyes in
> puke.

but cannot recognize hypocrisy when it smotes them in the eye.

love,
cfa