Comments on: birthing http://www.nozzala.net/burningbright/index.php/2006/05/18/birthing/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:50:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: yami http://www.nozzala.net/burningbright/index.php/2006/05/18/birthing/#comment-711 yami Thu, 18 May 2006 16:16:13 +0000 http://www.nozzala.net/burningbright/index.php/2006/05/18/birthing/#comment-711 Americans are also living in a bygone era. Except for that bit about it being "gone", anyway. This one made the rounds of the feminist blogosphere a while back; I like <a href="http://examinedlife.typepad.com/johnbelle/2005/08/how_about_the_p.html" rel="nofollow">Belle Waring's take on it</a>: <blockquote> If you really love somebody, you'll be able to make the effort. Have these guys never heard of fantasizing about Angelina Jolie going down on Scarlett Johansson? Did the possibility of looking at some porn first not cross their minds? Fake it till it's real is not stupid advice in the world of sex. If you knocked the chick up, suck it up. Have sex enough times without bloody babies suddenly emerging from her vagina and the bad images will be replaced by good ones. </blockquote> Also, this totally justifies my policy of farting really loudly in front of boyfriends and then giggling about it: if they can't deal with me farting, there's no way they'll be able to handle more intense biological reality. I don't want kids, but what if I develop severe gastrointestinal problems or something? Any long-term partner of mine is going to have to deal with the possibility of me having serious medical mess, with which I will require some help and support, and then getting better and wanting to have sex again. Americans are also living in a bygone era. Except for that bit about it being “gone”, anyway. This one made the rounds of the feminist blogosphere a while back; I like Belle Waring’s take on it:

If you really love somebody, you’ll be able to make the effort. Have these guys never heard of fantasizing about Angelina Jolie going down on Scarlett Johansson? Did the possibility of looking at some porn first not cross their minds? Fake it till it’s real is not stupid advice in the world of sex. If you knocked the chick up, suck it up. Have sex enough times without bloody babies suddenly emerging from her vagina and the bad images will be replaced by good ones.

Also, this totally justifies my policy of farting really loudly in front of boyfriends and then giggling about it: if they can’t deal with me farting, there’s no way they’ll be able to handle more intense biological reality. I don’t want kids, but what if I develop severe gastrointestinal problems or something? Any long-term partner of mine is going to have to deal with the possibility of me having serious medical mess, with which I will require some help and support, and then getting better and wanting to have sex again.

]]> By: ximena http://www.nozzala.net/burningbright/index.php/2006/05/18/birthing/#comment-740 ximena Sat, 20 May 2006 06:24:12 +0000 http://www.nozzala.net/burningbright/index.php/2006/05/18/birthing/#comment-740 Yeah, pretty much. I think what I was thinking is, it would be nice to have a close-knit and supportive group of women who could help you through an experience like that, in fact I think that's the appeal of a midwife. But in a real-world room full of doctors I would want my closest people supporting me and if that doesn't include my partner it's probably not a good sign. Yeah, pretty much. I think what I was thinking is, it would be nice to have a close-knit and supportive group of women who could help you through an experience like that, in fact I think that’s the appeal of a midwife. But in a real-world room full of doctors I would want my closest people supporting me and if that doesn’t include my partner it’s probably not a good sign.

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