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Do you think pregnancy is a sexist process?

Only women can get pregnant. Why? Why is that? Only women have to deal with it. And before you say "oh just deal with it" or whatever, listen. All pregnancies and pregnancy symptoms are different, but every woman WILL have to go through: - Labor and delivery. Sure, not all women push the 8 pound thing out of their vagina, and even if you do there's medicine to numb pain, but does that make it an easy task? No. There's complications with it, and complications with the alternative cesaran section, so. - Nausea and vomiting. Some get lucky and get one but not the other, and some get a limited amount of time like only one month's worth of it. But it still happens. - Getting big and carrying around a growing baby for 9 months. This can cause self-consciousness, back pain, limited mobility, etc. - Constant peeing. - The pains of prenatal care. Gyno anyone? - Other and multiple physical and emotional changes. Not to mention the things that some women MAY have to deal with, while others may not... - Sore/leaking breasts. - The worry of telling parents/friends. - Getting looked at wherever you go. - The question of what to do with it: keep it, abort it, adopt it. - Bathroom problems like constipation, hemorrhoids, bladder infection. - The actual parenting once the kid is out, for those that decide to keep it. - The guilt/loss of aborting or adopting. - For teenagers and young/unmarried adults, the shame of being pregnant. - Endless and multiple physical and emotional changes. Now you may be saying "the guy has to deal with sh*t, too so it's not sexist." Really? What does the guy have to deal with? Moodiness? The fact that the girl may not want to have sex as often anymore? Being woken up at 5 in the morning because she's getting sick in the toilet? Having to run out to the store at 3am to get pickles and ice cream because she has the weirdest cravings? BIG F***ING DEAL. How about you be the one who has to run and puke the very second you wake up? Would you like to be depressed one second, horny the next, and uncontrollably angry after that without even knowing why? How about changing your diet and eating schedule to accommodate for the fetus growing inside you? Do men have to deal with any of that? No. Sure, if the couple wants to have kids and has to go through miscarriages first, it's sad for the dad too... But he's not the one whose body has to deal with it. Men play one part and one part only in pregnancy, and that is knocking the girl up. After that, it's all the woman. Some men don't even stick around to help make it easier on her. I know I missed a lot of symptoms and things that can completely blow about pregnancy, but my point remains... No matter how you feel about it, maybe you wanted a kid or you didn't, pregnancy is not pain free. Even if you've wanted a kid your whole life and are SOOO EXCITED about it finally coming true, the entire 9 months are not going to be filled with nothing but joy. (continued in updates)
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There will be aches, there will be pains, there will be changes you don't expect or want, there will be lots of things that you don't like. And by 'you' I am talking to all the women, because pregnancy can only be done by a woman. That. Is. Sexist.
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I don't believe in god but if I did, I would have to tell you: he is definitely a male. Only a male would say "well gee let's see, pregnancy looks awful hard and painful... f*** it, the woman can deal with it."
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If god was a woman, pregnancy would go both ways. Just saying. Guys? Don't have to deal with it. It's a sexist invention. Agree? Disagree?
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  • First of all, if you're going to discuss a controversial issue that people may or may not agree, please make sure that you are defending both sides, so that it is a healthy debate, rather than a one-sided argument.

    Now, for your information, pregnancy is not an invention. It is a natural process. It is not meant to discriminate women, because it is not "meant" to do anything other than growing a baby inside a woman's uterus.

    Let's go back to the Archaic ages, where humans were indistinguishable from animals. Wait, we don't even need to go back that much. Just observe street animals. Males DO suffer almost as much as the females, because in the last stage of pregnancy, the mother is totally dependent on the food and protection that the father provides.

    The father risks his life to protect the nest from wild predators and to find enough meat to feed the mother, while the mother just sits around in the nest, looking tired.

    Plus, I always thought that getting pregnant is a privilege, rather than an ubligation. If you don't like pregnancy, then just use condoms and adopt someone else's baby. Geez...

    Finally, there is no point in arguing against things that you can't possibly change. What are you going to do? When you are pregnant, you will suffer the same way you have described. You CAN'T CHANGE THAT, no matter how much you bicker about it. So, just accept it as it is, unless you have a new "anti-sexist" (!) invention that can make guys get pregnant.

    Just suck it up and move on girl.

  • What a crock of sh*te! You're disputing this like someone has chosen women to be the pregnant sex becaue they are sexist?!?!?

    In history it was always the women who bore, mothered and cared for the children, the men who worked to support his family, defended his family and even his country.

    Do you think it's 'sexist' that in the past if your country was at war, if you were male YOU WERE FORCED to go and risk your life just because you were male?!?! In some much older cases if you were old enough to hold a sword you were made to go into battle, young lads as young as 14-15 being MADE by thier king/leader etc fight for thier live's?!?! In a state of disaster 'women and children' being the priority?!?! Still to this day there are some jobs that are considered 'too dangerous' for women.

    Think of the millions of men who have died in battles, wars, on sinking ships BECAUSE THEY ARE MEN next time you become worried about giving birth. I'm not saying it's nice, I'm not saying it's nothing to be anxious about, I'm saying you shouldn't feel hard done by!

    • Uhhh, that’s true it’s a natural process and sadly men have to give up there lives for this country. 😭

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  • a sexist invention ? nobody invented it ? a man in a white lab coat didn't say lets invent a way to procreate and make women suffer in the process, as a women that has given birth twice I have to say that giving birth was the most wondrous thing I have ever accomplished, yes it is hard work, yes it is painful, and yes I swore blind that I would never do it again but I did go on to do it again, because the end result was worth it, bringing a new life into the world and growing it inside my stomach wasn't a chore it was a blessing, it is something we should be proud to be able to do, I really don't understand what the hell you are on about, to be sexist you would have to be biased against a certain sex, who exactly is being sexist ? mother nature ?

    • sorry I just have to add that I am pleased I am a women and got to grow and nurture my babies I think men are the ones missing out !

    • also dumbest sh*t I ever read, can't quite believe I wasted a good 3 minutes reading that crap and another 3 replying ?

    • This is a very good post, women should feel special that they are of great importance since they bring new lives to this world.

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  • no I completely disagree with you on pregnancy being sexist. it's the one thing a "sexist Mesogynist" doesn't and can't do. NO man can create a person. to me being pregnant is a very beautiful thing that I went through, I'd do it ALL over again. all the labor, all the sickness, all the streching my body did (while I do wish every now and then that I could have my old body back) absolutely everything. looking at my beautiful baby is all it takes to make me think that way.

  • Sexism requires a bias. Bias requires a point of view. Nature is what developed the process of pregnancy, but nature does not have a point of view as it is not a living thing, therefore it is not sexist.

    If you are religious and believe in a higher power, then, sure, that higher power is sexist, but, otherwise, no it's not.

    Saying that it's a woman's *duty* to get pregnant *is*, however, sexist. Not all women are required to through the ordeal of pregnancy.

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  • The only way you could view pregnancy as a "sexist invention" is if you DID believe in god. The fact that the god of the Christian Bible is sexist is not news. :D

    If you don't believe in god, then this whole post is stupid, since pregnancy wasn't "invented" and since it wasn't invented, and as such, it can't be described as "sexist".

  • Biology can't be sexist...please see a therapist and get on some medication

    • Agreed. Definitely agreed. (+1)

  • IMO Childbirth is similar to a guy peeing out a kidney stone... the principle is much the same, pushing something too big for the hole, out of the hole. The only difference is things like morning sickness and swollen breasts, but it's not like a guy has never thrown up or felt like he's pulled or torn a chest muscle...

  • Brainless feminist, or troll?

  • I don't even have to read this whole thing to realize how dumb you are. Guys don't have the "equipment" for pregnancy. They have a penis and sperm to get the woman pregnant. Sorry that's just how it is. Has been for thousands of years. If there were no guys then we couldn't reproduce. So get over it.

  • This has to be the stupidest post, and I almost certain you must be a feminist. After you deal with this sexist issue, why don't you scream at a rock for being too lazy

    • literally made me laugh out loud XD

    • hahahaha, nice suggestion!

    • I think someone got pregnant by accident and is now hell bent on making all men suffer because she couldn't keep her knickers on

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  • Don't want the sh*t, don't have kids.

    If you do want kids, then I'd have thought it'd be worth the pain.

    It's not sexist because men didn't choose for women to be the ones who have babies.

    Stop complaining, you just made yourself look retarded.

    Feminists suck, and have to make everything a f***ing debate, don't you?

  • Lmao! Yes, a group of guys got together and said "let's make it so women can get pregnant and we can't!". It's damn biology, we didn't just make it up one day.

  • girls have a higher pain tolerance and that's a fact. but girls use pregnancy as a weapon also. I broke up with my last girlfriend and she told me she was preggo. then her best friend told me she was lying to keep me around. how do you think I felt?

  • It's the way we were created, so stop bitching about it. There is nothing we can do to change the way the whole human population reproduces, so I disagree that women being the selected sex of the human population to carry an offspring is sexist.

    Sexist- Discrimination on the basis of sex; For example: The oppression of women by men.

    Is carrying a child discrimination against women?

    No.

    Is pregnancy oppression of women from men?

    No.

    Get your thoughts straight before giving us a lesson on pregnancy and calling it sexist, if you think its that bad then don't get pregnant. Simple solution.

  • this sounds more like an argument than a question

  • No. It's not sexist at all.

  • No offense, well actually, yeah offense, but you're a complete idiot.

  • it's just the way it is.. you can either keep cursing the darkness or light a candle. in this case, get your tubes tied or something

  • lol, it's the way nature created it what can you do? and I don't think set out to make women miserable. If you believe in god you can blame him for that then.

    • Eve is a dumb bitch

  • oh God not this again...*facepalm*

  • It's not sexist. That's like saying air conditioning is sexist. Women have the organs necessary to have babies, so obviously they are the ones getting pregnant. Also, think about it like this. In cavemen times, the men had to risk their lives for the tribe to hunt game, build, and more. That leaves the women to birth the children, gather food and resources, and take care of the children. If the men had to stay home to take care of the babies that THEY birthed, nobody would be protecting the tribe!

  • wow, no way was I going to read all of that. it may be sexist, but there is nothing we can do about it. its not like by us bitching that guys will suddenly be able to have kids. and if you don't want to have kids, you can prevent it. and girls also have periods which guys don't have to deal with, but again, we can't change that.

  • are you stupid?did you just refer to pregnancy as a sexist invention?Read the book of genesis and maybe this entire waste of everything it took that you call a post could have been avoided. what don't you get about men aren't engineered to have children and a baby can't come through a penis, I know at least ten pregnant women who would glady punch you in the face.?

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