Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Women are baby factories.

It seems nowadays that all of Tim's friends are having babies and buying houses, all that wonderful grown up stuff. Meanwhile, my lady friends are getting pregnant and keeping their offspring before they finish high school or start college. This is frightening for lots of reasons. People are getting married for all the wrong reasons and bringing kids into this world before they're done being kids themselves. It's crazy because I never would have thought it would happen and definitely is not in my near future. I'm one of those people that believe in abortion and waiting till you are old and stable to have children. It's only fair.
Abortions are real and happen every day. Get the over it. OK, now that that is out of the way, on with what I was thinking.If a guy behaves honorably these days, does the right thing when he knocks a girl up, it means he accompanies her to the abortion clinic (except in St Thomas it means, he must now provide crack for three). Maybe he even pays for half or all of it. Maybe he does his 'I feel your pain' bit. Maybe he says stuff like, "It was my child too." But shotgun weddings are now passe. Walking down the aisle is no longer the gentlemanly thing to do. There aren't rules like that any longer. Of course, I know it's better this way. No unwanted babies (I was fortunate enough to be one of these babies), no teenage brides and peach-fuzz grooms trapped in marriages that never should have happened. I know it's better. I know. No-fault divorce is better too. And still, I can't quite shake this feeling that we live in a world gone wrong, that there are all these feelings you're not supposed to have because there's no reason to anymore. But still they're there, stuck somewhere, a flaw that evolution hasn't managed to eliminate yet, like tonsils or an appendix.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think it's bloody ridiculous when people rush into things like pregnancy and weddings. It's almost as if they cannot enjoy their teenage life without having that dependancy like a husband to drop all their problems on.

Use birth control, people. Honestly.

I loved this post, awesome.