The pregnant man, the pregnant man…

Lol, if you’ve been anywhere in America over the last few days, you’ve had to hear about, seen pictures of or seen the Oprah interview with the pregnant man. Okay, I’ll admit it, when I first saw the pictures, my brain had a hard time comprehending the information it was getting. Apparently some of the idea behind Oprah’s show was the shock value, so the audience hadn’t been warned beforehand. You got to see many jaws drop as Oprah announced the “show topic”.

Obviously it’s interesting. You couldn’t be human and not be curious about things. This pregnant man was not a pregnant man at all really though. He is a man externally but still a woman internally with woman organs. I suppose we would call him trans-gender in this day and age. So it isn’t really the crazy miracle that everyone automatically thinks, however it may be the Pandora’s box of it. It’s interesting to see people’s reactions to it.

I wasn’t so impressed with David Letterman’s. I happen to be a fan of Dave, but his remark concerning a freak show was a little lacking in the compassion or tolerance to say the least. Living in a world where we don’t want race to be an issue, how can we expect for gender to be? Beyond the identity and into the core of things, that’s great.

So how many times have women griped and complained about being the carrier of a child. The weight gain, physical ailments, labor and pain, time out of work, career sacrifices…the list goes on. This “man” is making history, lol. My husband actually said at one point that if could’ve done it, he would’ve, lol. So there’s no secret that women have been secretly or not so secretly wishing the day would come when men could feel their pain, literally.

So what does this mean? Will there finally be justice, finally real family/child friendly policy’s in the work place? Forget in the workplace, what about in the world? Will child rearing finally get the attention and respect it deserves? Will there not be any more expectations of having them in the fields and be up and working shucking the corn an hour later? Who knows, maybe parenting will become a career in itself and people who want to parent and parent alone will not have to be dependent on a spouse, other family or the government? The possibilities are endless! One man I would like to see knocked up…Donald Trump. Wonder if that would slow that heavy hitter down a little, lol!

Wow, what a year of firsts, first diverse political ticket for president and first pregnant man. The world may end up okay after all.