Special on the news my aunt is watching this minute:
Reporter goes to a women's gym to horrify the 20- and 30-somethings exercising by telling them that, oh noes! by the age of thirty they only have 12% of their eggs left!
I can't quite pin down exactly what's so facepalmy about this.
Is it the assumption that all women want to have children? That was definitely there. The concern that the human race might come to an end because educated able-bodied white women aren't popping out babies? There was the whole "oh no, women are having careers instead of having babies" thing.
Meh. Just a moment of annoyance while I happened to be online.
3 comments:
I hate that kind of alarmist shit. And then if they did become housewives and mothers and have no time to exercise at the gym, that same reporter would try to scare them at the playground with their toddlers because, oh noes! Women who don't exercise enough will die of heart attacks or something, and you want to be around for those children, don't you?
There's a *lot* of facepalmy to be found in your description alone, never mind the actual news piece.
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