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Titiana McGrath, the avatar of a great satire writer, coined that phrase, ”bipedal gestation units,” and made me smirk. It was in response to the notion that gender inclusiveness demands we stop calling it Mother’s Day and start referring to it to ”birthing persons day” so as to not offend and exclude all the non females who give birth. Apparently the term ”mother” is exclusively female and therefore gender oppressive towards ”people who give birth” and other assorted chest feeders.
One shouldn’t even bother to address such things, but these notions tend to get a ridiculous amount of traction within our mad, mad, culture. For example, NARAL, which is prochoice America, sent out a tweet supporting the notion. They happen to believe that ”reproductive freedom is for every body” and barriers to birth control fall harder on ‘marginalized groups,’ such as those without the reproductive design or biological characteristics that make giving birth an objective reality?
Long ago I lamented with some feminists over the fact that women were being dehumanized and erased for the sole purpose of paving the way for artificial wombs and artificial intelligence. It was a quite productive discussion on account of the fact that I managed to get myself erased which demonstrated the point I was making perfectly.
I am not the least bit interested in rehashing a gender war or anything but for the sake of amusement or comedy or whatever, it is never men who we suddenly label ”bipedal egg fertilizers.” Men are still men, er, perhaps ”women,” but I mean human. Men are still human. Men are still called ”persons.” In fact they are so, so human we must now defend and protect their right to not be offended by….. blatant biology and obvious science? Once again it is women who must step aside, and it is mothers who must surrender our very identity to make way.
Surrendering our very identity, an amusing notion due to the fact that motherhood is already a bit like being completely erased and rendered a non person. Someone smart once compared motherhood to a particular breed of spider who lays her eggs and then lies down to die so the baby hatchlings can nourish themselves for weeks off of her rotting carcass. That may sound like a rather bleak analogy, but that image cheered me up immensely over the years. Also, it’s a marvelous boundary to set, I’ll give you everything I can, but thou shall not feast off my rotting carcass.
Anna Jarvis spent half her life petitioning to get congress to acknowledge Mother’s day, ”a day of sentiment and not profit.” Then once the government and consumerism were properly involved, she spent the second half of her life trying desperately to get the whole notion reversed, rescinded. It was a battle to the point of arrest and eventual placement in a sanitarium where she died, rather penniless.
A woman after my own heart, I tell ya.
Anna Jarvis never had children of her own which brings me to a larger point. Motherhood is not about giving birth at all, nor is about having an identity. It is actually about reflecting our Creator, our Savior, practicing the fine art of sacrificial love, and nurturing eternal souls. We are all ”birthing persons” in that sense, giving birth to a vision and an ideal, to a future and a hope. I know this truth because I have more spiritual mothers in heaven now than I can even count. They are my treasures stored up in heaven and a bit of their treasure is still stored in me.
freemattpodcast said:
bipedal egg fertilizer, indeed. Us egg fertilizers need to engage more willing egg carriers for fertilization.
(Humans arent supposed to be animals. Thank you for the Titania reference).
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! Today the most radical thing you can do to buck the whole system is to marry, settle down, and raise babies.
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Chado said:
That McGrath woman has really got some ovaries.
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insanitybytes22 said:
LOL! Or perhaps no ovaries at all.
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dumbestblogger said:
I, for one, am offended by the insinuation of objective reality inherent in the presumption that I came from a bipedal gestation unit. I am a space-robot, neither gestated, not fertilized, thank you very much. Any appeal to objective science in an effort to discredit me will invariably hurt my feelings, therefore it is false. Trust the science!
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ahh yes, you are now freed from the burden and indignity of biology, yay! 🙂
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ColorStorm said:
Some kind of strange eh, that we have to discuss what gender carries a uterus.
Can’t stand the brain dead snowflakes who expect 99% of the population to cater to their decadence.
Now let me tick off as many fems as possible:
Have a very distinct MOTHERS day ma’am.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Thank you, Colorstorm! 🙂
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seekingdivineperspective said:
As usual, well said! I did not know that about Anna Jarvis. How sad.
If I try to speak sense into people to the point where I end up institutionalized, can I share a room with you? 😏
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insanitybytes22 said:
LOL! Absolutely, I will save you the top bunk. 🙂
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dumbestblogger said:
I think I’ll celebrate with an imaginary cocktail.
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seekingdivineperspective said:
With my knees, I’ll sleep on the floor, thank you.
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Tricia said:
This was a beautiful post IB and a great tribute to motherhood and women in general. I’m not a mom, but feel this trend of erasing the unique qualities of women and sacrificing our needs and safety to the transgender cause is really disturbing. One of many things these days I guess.
Happy Mother’s Day!
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insanitybytes22 said:
Thank you, Tricia. Happy Mother’s Day to you, too! There are lots of moms in the world because we are all charged with helping to look after God’s children. Our pastor recently said parents are just bigger children. Made me laugh, but it is true.
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jsneese62 said:
Happy Mother’s Day. It has been a long time since I have been on here. The end of 2019 was a very bumpy ride that had me in a week-long coma. Recovery has been long and difficult, but I think I am as well as I will ever be again. I knew though when I came here I would find another get blog post.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Welcome back! I am pleased to hear from you. Happy Mothers Day, too. 🙂
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jsneese62 said:
Thank you and I hope you and I hope you had a wonderful Mothers Day too. I was gone so long because my now former pain doctor gave me a medication that nearly killed me. a side effect was lowering resistance to seizures and he never told me it was a possibility. I started having grand-mal seizures from what I was told I had four seizures and each one stopped my heart each time. They ended up putting me in a medically induced coma for a week. I woke up with a very sore cracked sternum and a chest full of bruises and very confused because I remembered nothing and still don’t that was the end of July 2019. I am starting to write again and enjoy your writings.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Wow! What a tale. I’m sorry for your struggles, but glad to hear you don’t remember much, and you are finally on the mend! Praise the Lord for that good news!
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jsneese62 said:
Thank you and at first I struggled with not remembering anything except waking up in the hospital. It was as if there was a huge void in my life just a blankness there and it is still there. I now thank God for it because I don’t want to remember it anymore. Definitely praise God because without Him I would have died. We took cookies to the paramedics that worked on me and I will never forget the look on the lady paramedics face and it was disbelief that I was walking through the door she had expected I wouldn’t make, but was happy I did. It has been a long road both mentally and physically I have Jesus and that is what matters.
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Anna Waldherr said:
Kudos! And Happy Mother’s Day! ❤
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insanitybytes22 said:
Happy Mother’s Day, Anna!
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jilldomschot said:
Does NARAL really believe in reproductive freedom for every body???? I mean, I’d be really surprised, as most pro abortionists believe only women get the right to choose, thereby denying men their reproductive rights.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Good point! I guess men who want reproductive rights need to self identify as female and just declare themselves to be the birthing person.
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