I was watching a show a few days ago and it had a birth scene in it. As usual I wondered what screwy idea are they going to try to give women about birth this time? Let me back up a bit. This is a show that has machines that are almost human, organically speaking (yes I am a sci fi fan). Ok so the "woman" machine is having this baby and the doctor says " well I see they didn't improve the plumbing any , we are going to have to C-section."
And we wonder why woman have trouble accepting themselves with all that "malfunctioning plumbing" down there.
The human body has an intricate and wonderful design that include everything about the woman's reproductive parts and the birth process. There is anything faulty about it and it isn't plumbing. As the Good Book says (Fiddler on the Roof) "we are fearfully and wonderfully made" (the Book) .
Not a few minutes later a man in our group said something about another character in the show that was acting like a coward, the comment was "he acts like a girl". WHAT!?
Woman= faulty parts and cowardly qualities. Any wonder that women are fearful of having babies surely there must be a brave perfect man that could birth better because he has better plumbing..... wait a minute..... mmm men having babies ahh no. Male birthing mindset here.
This is just one show, not even a very good one, and this message is spread throughout our culture. It is everywhere it comes up in conversations with people that don't even believe it. But if we listen and don't object and if we keep passing it on, lots of women are going to believe that they are cowards and that their ability to birth won't work.
Don't believe it ladies, you don't have plumbing, you are not built by hands of men and the design is made for you to give birth as you were intended to. And you are very brave to carry children inside your own body, to look out for their welfare before they are born, you know the secrets of that baby inside you more than any other human being.
Ladies we are not malfunctioning. We are letting a system tell us how to give birth and it isn't working very well. The system is having a malfunction. And birth.... well it isn't and won't ever be a male function the plumbing is just all wrong!
Men are physically incapable of giving birth. God didn't create them like that. Lotsa good thoughts here.
ReplyDeleteLOL I love the show you are talking about! But I too asked what was wrong with the plumbing in the first place??
ReplyDeleteThanks for this post Tracy, you have highlighted a very important aspect of how we are socialized into the dominant birth culture of malfunction.
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