Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Best 'Birth Canal' Quote of the Year

"'Gender is just a social construct.' A woman would have to be the queen of denial to cling to that notion after pushing a baby out of her birth canal."
-- Pundette (mother of seven children)

7 comments:

  1. Thank you kindly for the link. Just wish I had said 'king, queen, or ruler' of denial.

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  2. Right. Gender is just a social construct. And parts have nothing to do with it. Yeah...

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  3. Pundette, isn't it amazing how the rise of the Contraceptive Culture has allowed people to ignore -- nearly even to forget -- the reproductive aspect of sex?

    When you use the term "birth canal," it is like a revelation to many people: You mean that thing is an exit?

    When Mrs. Other McCain gave birth to our first child, and was nursing for the first time, I stared (with tears in my eyes, of course) and had this weird thought: Those aren't merely ornamental.

    There is a perversity in the extent to which our culture ignores the natural purpose of sex.

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  4. Excellent point. And the natural consequences of sex - pregnancy, child birth, and lactation - are reality-muggers of the first degree. In a good way.

    That's why it astounds me that a woman who has gone through these experiences can pretend that her identity as a female is a 'construct.'

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  5. I'm more of a male/female kind of guy myself, but the social constructionists tend to make a distinction between sex and gender, with the former being relegated to two types--male and female. The latter can have any number of types, male, female, in-between, etc.

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  6. If she is the queen of denial, shouldn't we be calling her Cleopatra?

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  7. Spot-on observation, Pundette. Also, by claiming gender is a 'social construct', one neatly eliminates God from the miraculous equation of reproduction and birth. Narcissistic idiots.

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