jesus christ, what a fucking tosser
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/12/pregnancy-pain-natural-birth-yoga
"A large number of women want to avoid pain. Some just don't fancy the pain [of childbirth]. More women should be prepared to withstand pain," he told the Observer. "Pain in labour is a purposeful, useful thing, which has quite a number of benefits, such as preparing a mother for the responsibility of nurturing a newborn baby."
Words cannot DESCRIBE how angry this makes me. A MAN, who will NEVER, EVER have a baby, EVER go through the pain of childbirth, describing it like a jaunt in the park. 'Oh, some women just don't fancy it, you know? Look, love, don't be a wimp and just get on with it. It'll teach you about being a mother!'
""Over recent decades there has been a loss of 'rites of passage' meaning to childbirth, so that pain and stress are viewed negatively," said Walsh. Patients should be told that labour pain is a timeless component of the "rites of passage" transition to motherhood, he added."
A fucking RITE OF PASSAGE? Pain and stress are viewed negative? MR fucking Walsh, if you had a baby ripped out of your vagina, I wonder how positively you would view that.
Yes, sometimes painkillers are over-used, yes of course we should explore yoga, hypnotherapy, and massage. But this critique is highly judgemental. It's entire tone strongly indicates that women who have painkillers are wimps, that they're not real mothers (after all, you need pain to 'face up to the responsibility of motherhood'), that in fact, pain, is a necessary part of being a woman and trying to escape it makes you unwomanly ('rite of passage.') And all this coming from someone for whom it is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to EVER experience this pain! To adopt this lecturing, judgemental, patronising tone!
Is that fucking helpful?
This is the kind of thing that makes me ashamed to be associated with western medicine.
"A large number of women want to avoid pain. Some just don't fancy the pain [of childbirth]. More women should be prepared to withstand pain," he told the Observer. "Pain in labour is a purposeful, useful thing, which has quite a number of benefits, such as preparing a mother for the responsibility of nurturing a newborn baby."
Words cannot DESCRIBE how angry this makes me. A MAN, who will NEVER, EVER have a baby, EVER go through the pain of childbirth, describing it like a jaunt in the park. 'Oh, some women just don't fancy it, you know? Look, love, don't be a wimp and just get on with it. It'll teach you about being a mother!'
""Over recent decades there has been a loss of 'rites of passage' meaning to childbirth, so that pain and stress are viewed negatively," said Walsh. Patients should be told that labour pain is a timeless component of the "rites of passage" transition to motherhood, he added."
A fucking RITE OF PASSAGE? Pain and stress are viewed negative? MR fucking Walsh, if you had a baby ripped out of your vagina, I wonder how positively you would view that.
Yes, sometimes painkillers are over-used, yes of course we should explore yoga, hypnotherapy, and massage. But this critique is highly judgemental. It's entire tone strongly indicates that women who have painkillers are wimps, that they're not real mothers (after all, you need pain to 'face up to the responsibility of motherhood'), that in fact, pain, is a necessary part of being a woman and trying to escape it makes you unwomanly ('rite of passage.') And all this coming from someone for whom it is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to EVER experience this pain! To adopt this lecturing, judgemental, patronising tone!
Is that fucking helpful?
This is the kind of thing that makes me ashamed to be associated with western medicine.