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Aug. 16th, 2002
Urge to kill rising... rising....
Aug. 16th, 2002 08:10 pmSo I was at the gym earlier today and that was good. Had good music, was able to use all of the machines I wanted to (I think I'm going to give up on one which I don't even know how to describe except suffice it to say by the time I'm done with the treadmill I'm too slippery to stay in the right position for more than 2 seconds), brainstormed story ideas, all of the good.
While I was on the treadmill though I had a hard time keeping my brain focused during the last five min. because Oprah came on. Now I don't watch Oprah. My brain doesn't work like that. But the TV is right in front of me and they put closed captioning on so I can read along while I'm doing my cool down.
Apparently the topic of today's show was women who were - gasp! - finding out that once you get past 40 it's really hard to have children. Betrayed, betrayed these women were by a media that kept showing them reports about actresses who were 40+ and still having babies. They thought that they could have it all! Work! Husband! Children!!
Okay, now first of all my feminist gorge is rising because naturally whenever we talk about women having problems having kids we have to mention the fact that they - GASP! - had careers (feel free to clutch your pearls now). For fuck's sake, it's 2002. Women have been working since the dawn of fucking time can we get over it already?
So the show hasn't even gotten in gear yet and already I'm pissed off because Oprah, a woman who, I've got to mention here, has a job, has felt the need to remind us that women can only have careers at the expense of having kids, with the not so hidden implication that kids are what women really want to have.
Then we get in to these pre-taped interviews with women who are talking about how they had their careers, got succesfull, even landed wonderful husbands, but then when they finally got around to thinking about having kids in their 40s - GASP! They couldn't!! They were too old!!! The chances of them being fertile had dropped!!!
Okay, first of all drop the horseshit about the media confusing you because if you A) think that actresses who are worth millions have anything in common with you medically you're beyond all hope and B) take a fucking health class once in a while, would you? So stop the "Poor me! I didn't know!!" routine. If you're this damn stupid you don't deserve to breed and look how Fate took your DNA out of the gene pool - win/win situation if you ask me.
Second of all - IT'S CALLED ADOPTION. Thus endeth my ability to feel sorry for you, assuming I did in the first place which, again I didn't because you're a moron. But assuming I did feel sorry for you and your childless lifestyle I would stop right here because you can have a fucking kid. Yeah, I know the adoption process is a Hell and a half but why don't you sit down and explain in small words to me how it's in any way cheaper or easier than going through the thousands of dollars of medical experimentation, stress and aggrevation that would be necessary to get pregnant past the age of 40 and explain to me why it's a good thing to even try that in the first place considering the health risks to the subsequent kid that you supposedly love.
Find an older kid. Find a Chinese kid. Find a fucking kid and ADOPT it and SHUT UP! No - wait, take a fucking second to thank GOD that the worst problem in your damn life is that your body is working the way it's supposed to and THEN shut up!
And get off my TV.
While I was on the treadmill though I had a hard time keeping my brain focused during the last five min. because Oprah came on. Now I don't watch Oprah. My brain doesn't work like that. But the TV is right in front of me and they put closed captioning on so I can read along while I'm doing my cool down.
Apparently the topic of today's show was women who were - gasp! - finding out that once you get past 40 it's really hard to have children. Betrayed, betrayed these women were by a media that kept showing them reports about actresses who were 40+ and still having babies. They thought that they could have it all! Work! Husband! Children!!
Okay, now first of all my feminist gorge is rising because naturally whenever we talk about women having problems having kids we have to mention the fact that they - GASP! - had careers (feel free to clutch your pearls now). For fuck's sake, it's 2002. Women have been working since the dawn of fucking time can we get over it already?
So the show hasn't even gotten in gear yet and already I'm pissed off because Oprah, a woman who, I've got to mention here, has a job, has felt the need to remind us that women can only have careers at the expense of having kids, with the not so hidden implication that kids are what women really want to have.
Then we get in to these pre-taped interviews with women who are talking about how they had their careers, got succesfull, even landed wonderful husbands, but then when they finally got around to thinking about having kids in their 40s - GASP! They couldn't!! They were too old!!! The chances of them being fertile had dropped!!!
Okay, first of all drop the horseshit about the media confusing you because if you A) think that actresses who are worth millions have anything in common with you medically you're beyond all hope and B) take a fucking health class once in a while, would you? So stop the "Poor me! I didn't know!!" routine. If you're this damn stupid you don't deserve to breed and look how Fate took your DNA out of the gene pool - win/win situation if you ask me.
Second of all - IT'S CALLED ADOPTION. Thus endeth my ability to feel sorry for you, assuming I did in the first place which, again I didn't because you're a moron. But assuming I did feel sorry for you and your childless lifestyle I would stop right here because you can have a fucking kid. Yeah, I know the adoption process is a Hell and a half but why don't you sit down and explain in small words to me how it's in any way cheaper or easier than going through the thousands of dollars of medical experimentation, stress and aggrevation that would be necessary to get pregnant past the age of 40 and explain to me why it's a good thing to even try that in the first place considering the health risks to the subsequent kid that you supposedly love.
Find an older kid. Find a Chinese kid. Find a fucking kid and ADOPT it and SHUT UP! No - wait, take a fucking second to thank GOD that the worst problem in your damn life is that your body is working the way it's supposed to and THEN shut up!
And get off my TV.
