Pregnant Women Are Smug?

[logansrogue]

I saw the video the other day and I couldn't even watch the whole way through. I've known plenty of pregnant women that aren't smug. Majority of the ones I've known aren't smug. I know society favours those that reproduce and it can be horribly frustrating, but attacking other women for that isn't fair. Especially ones that are going through the huge ordeal of having a baby.

I just don't see the point of negativity. It's not funny, it's just bitchy and divisive. Those girls really need to grow the fuck up.

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[im-an-aaangel.livejournal.com]

I will never understand those freetard types who are so bothered by the existence of pregnant women. Pregnant women aren't smug, they're frikkin excited that they're having a baby and it just happens to be taking a huge toll on her, physically and emotionally.

I didn't have the energy to be smug when I was pregnant.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Most women I know didn't either. Particularly my big sister Helen, who was horribly ill for the entire nine months. She actually had to be hospitalised cause she couldn't keep food down. Pregnancy is a risky, frightening time. Anything could go wrong. Pregnant women don't have the *luxury* to be smug!

[innermurk.livejournal.com]

Somehow the icon seemed appropriate. Hee.

I can't fathom the thinking of people who hate pregnant women and babies. The internets seem to swim with them sometimes.
Having been suffering through my pregnancy, I can confirm that smug has never been in my repertoire. Somehow throwing up every hour for days and months on end just takes smug right off the table.
That being said, there are times when I felt such a happy glow of knowing that soon a new little life would come into the world depending on me that I was able to smile. Those moments were usually quite private, though. I just couldn't take the criticism of the populace in general in order to show much glowing outside my home.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I have a whole host of problems with this sort of "humour". They're basically throwing pregnant women under the bus for internet laughs. Misogynsitic guys are going to eat this up with a spoon, as well as the scary childfree crowd.

It's just too anti-woman for my liking. The girls seem very young and very selfish. They should get their heads out of their asses and realise that pregnant women are marginalised far too much for us to afford such a joke.

And they're not smug - they're overjoyed. Having a child can (not must be, not is, *can*, as in if a woman chooses to have a child at all) be the most fulfilling, emotional, meaningful times of a woman's life. I know I look forward to the day. I dream of having a belly full of babby, running my hand over the great big roundness and feeling connected to something bigger. How can someone be such a killjoy and harsh that buzz? I don't get it.

Hmm.

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

I know you're talking about a small, specific group of people here, but I kind of resent that "scary childfree crowd" thing. I identify as chilldfree and I don't hate mothers or children, nor do I mock pregnant women :-/ The free part doesn't signify freedom from the horror of children (to me), it signifies a distinction between being without children by choice and being without children due to circumstances beyond your control or because you haven't got around to having them yet.

Anyway, I don't know what video you're talking about, but it sounds cruel and unpleasant.

Re: Hmm.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I don't mean the regular childfree crowd. Hence the descriptor 'scary'. I should have been clearer, I"m sorry if I offended you. There's a specific hardcore bunch that I'm talking about, that are offended with even the presence of children. *hugs* Sorry if I hurt your feelings.

[triestine.livejournal.com]

Helllooooooo there Gerry.

[babalon-93.livejournal.com]

I know society favours those that reproduce
It does in the way people are encouraged to get married and reproduce as the 'normal and propper' expectation of people, but I find this to be a strange, 'lip service only' kind of favour though. It seems to be a duality of extremes--on one hand there is the blessed nurturer/mother looked upon as something righteous and holy, but then on the other hand when it comes to actual position in society, finance and and respect mothers tend to be marginalised and generally screwed over.

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's that whole damned if you do, damned if you don't thing. Women are encouraged to have babies (and called selfish or "barren" if they don't or can't) but when they do have babies they get totally sidelined, socially and financially. I also think that society only favours certain people reproducing under certain circumstances; single teenage mothers don't tend to get much encouragement, for example.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Nup. Reproduction bad unless you're rich, white and married.

[snyde-remark.livejournal.com]

Did I miss something? Where are these idiots that need to be slapped? I would like to hear/read their idiotic statements first hand if I may!

One of my friends had the fun of having the nausious feeling the whole way through her pregnancy, eating was her fun and that was taken away from her for months. Then she had to be careful what she ate cause it affected the baby through the breastmilk.