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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Um, I'm inclined to believe that what people read into my posts was motivated far more by the politics of birth than it was by, say, my actual tone. Elsewhere on these boards I could say that anyone who eats meat is a murderer, or people who seek out DP encounters are total fucking whores, and it would not be seen as tramping on anyone's feelings. But if you say "We chose Demerol over an epidural because our midwife convinced us the risk was lower" and you're shitting on anyone who had an epidural, apparently, because someone in the room is going to think you're saying they unnecessarily put their baby at risk (or whatever).
Considering the endless pro-drug caveats with which I qualified my original posts on this topic, and my expressed support for a woman who flatly stated she would seek out a c-section instead of having another 42 hours of back labor, I have learned that even talking about one's own birth experience is judging even when you say it's not. It's too much of a minefield.
I think it says something that we can talk about "spanking or no spanking?" without calling anyone an abuser, but we can't talk about NCB without someone being called a misogynist who wants women to suffer. I'm a misogynist and my wife is both a misogynist and a masochist.
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My main point is that "drug-based pain control" and "epidural" should not be used interchangeably. My secondary point is that an entire society that delivers children while having an otherworldly detachment from their nether regions will probably not have the same understanding as their millions of female ancestors that life has a cost.
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We all misread you? If everyone else thinks that you are saying something that you are not saying, maybe you misread the way the above statement reads to the general population. I couldn't even follow the 80% argument you claimed I was making. I was just interpreting the plain meaning of your statement.
I am not sending you Kim Possible's phone number if you keep up this charade that we've jumped all over you for no good reason.
