casseyrod Wrote:
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> kidlesskim Wrote:
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> > She justified fucking a married man because he
> > didn't have any kids? That woman is a HUGE
> whore
> > for having an attitude like that. I have heard
> SO
> > many moocows say, after finding out their
> husband
> > is cheating, "What about our
> chylllldren!!!!!???".
>
> I see lots of people who seem to think its okay to
> run over, or disregard, a CF woman. If you are a
> woman over age 21 and don't have kids, you are a
> second class citizen and that's a fact. It can
> even affect the quality of medical treatment that
> you receive at a doctor's office or in a hospital.
> For example, ob/gyns put their pregnant patients
> first, they will even admit to this. Pregnant
> patients are seen first ahead of any other patient
> in an ob/gyn office. I once was having a medical
> issue that frightened me and I had to call the
> after-hours message service, who then paged the
> ob/gyn. The ob/gyn calls me at home, and her FIRST
> question was "are you pregnant?" and I said "no"
> and she said "well, then this isn't serious,
> sorry". My problem turned out to not be serious,
> but if it HAD been, I would not have received
> medical advice or treatment.
I know this to be a fact as well and if I thought I could get away with it then I would lie and tell doctors that I had two kyds, just so I could get some respect. It's not only that the OBGYN's care more about preggos, although they certainly do, I get this feeling that somehow your life isn't as valuable to them, OR to the general public, if you are not a moocow. I know I am not being overly sensitive about this because I have had a few friends and my younger sister who have kids tell me that they noticed a BIG difference in the medical attention and care they received WHILE preggo AND after they had kyds. They probably noticed it because they didn't have kyds until they were in their 30's, so they had 15 years or so experience with OBGYN's BEFORE to be able to see a difference in AFTER.
As sad and unfair as it is, society in general places more value on the lives of mothers than it does childless/CF women. You can see it in the media when they report that a woman was saved from a burning building for instance, it's ALWAYS about how she is a "mother of three kyds". If a mother or ESPECIALLY a pregnant moocow is killed or murdered, the media can't get enough of it. I just wonder how many women were brutally killed by their husbands or boyfriends the year that Laci Peterson and "Conner" were murdered? I wonder if we would have ever even HEARD the name Laci Peterson if she had not been knocked up? Actually, I don't wonder because I already know the answer.