Everyone has said quite accurately that as soon as you get engaged the most asked question is, "Have you set a date?" and that as soon as you get married that turns into, "When are you having babies?"
IT'S TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY TRUE.
Interestingly enough, it hasn't bothered me the same way that the wedding questions did. It's actually surprising to me how much it hasn't bothered me. I think that may be because I viewed my wedding as a party forced upon me by a patriarchal institution, and having babies is my biological privilege as a woman. There is a difference, in my mind, between what is given to me by nature and what is forced upon me by society. (Side note: what I DO mind is the implication that you must be married in order to have babies. Or that you can't be married without the desire to have babies. That's just silly.)
Anyway, as I said in my disclaimer, babies are not in our immediate future, but there have been a plethora of new babies in my life from various friends and coworkers. And so from time to time my friends and coworkers will post sites that I will peruse at my leisure. I came across this site, Let's Panic About Babies!, which is hilarious. I found myself wandering into the What Kind of New Mother Stereotype Are You quiz, and I think that eventually, this will be me:
Reluctant mom
Motto: That baby's here somewhere.
Characteristics: Calls baby "Dude"; doesn’t want to nurse, because hasn't she done enough?
Can be found: Performing Google searches for "mother who doesn’t lose identity just because of some kid."
Warning signs that this might be you: What's your baby's name? Quick! No looking at the birth certificate!
Hilario. Though admittedly, for only a select group of people with like-minded senses of humor.
2 comments:
That "Let's Panic" thing is HILARIOUS.
Yup...I'm going to be old mom.
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