On Pregnancy…

    “Pregnancy humbled the husbands. After an initial rush of male pride, they quickly recognized the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction, and quietly withdrew into a baffled reserve, catalysts to an explosion they couldn’t explain.” - Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

    An interesting thing, pregnancy is. That entire process of doing the horizontal tango at exactly the right time, and then nine months later - if everything goes well - getting rewarded for your efforts with a bouncing baby of your own. A baby that’s a genetic hybrid of you and your mate… pretty much like a recipie really if you think about it.

    What’s more interesting is how little us men have to do with it. Techincally, our job entails only an hour or two of work, and then the next nine months falls on the shoulders/in the womb of the female of the species. Of course, once the baby is out it’s a different story, but that critical phase of immense development inside the womb is a responsibility that us men can never bear.

    For such a patriarchal world such as this, it’s pretty weird that men have such a relatively minisclue role in populating it. Really, with all the developments and potentials of science and technology, that male-less world could be a possiblity far off into the future… … …scary. In any case, I think that taking that backseat for the nine months of a woman’s pregnancy is indeed humbling for a guy… but what do I know? Maybe in several years…