my eccentric thoughts of today
Two things I've been thinking about today that seem somehow related.
I'm not the mother type. Never have been, never will be (screw the notion that you just have to meet the right person and suddenly you want to bear their children, the right person for me would be one who doesn't want children either). The idea of a little zygote growing into a little embryo and then into a larger embryo, thence into a tiny terror does nothing to stir my emotions, unless you count the stirring of distaste. If it's the thing for you, great. It's not the thing for me.
But I was thinking today, as I sometimes have been known to think, that I would get a nice warm fuzzy feeling if I were allowed to donate eggs to stem cell research. They should set something up like that, not that they can because of insane people, but if they could, they should. The idea of my ovarian contents growing into an infant is completely unappealing to me, but the notion of them being used in the creation of a zygote which could assist in stem cell research is a happy fuzzy thought.
And my other thought. This film called K-Pax with Kevin Spacey was on telly last night, and there was this intersting notion put forth of a society where there are no families as we know them. The children are circulated around the society "learning from each person" [sic]. Some people might say, "What a loss that would be, to have no families."
I can hardly think of a more appealing concept. The family as an institution has never appealed to me. It seems a fine way to pass down generations of guilt, issues, abuse, hangups. I've thought before it would be nice if children had the opportunity instead to have a well-round experience of growing up, a variety of guardians and role models.
I may just be speaking as someone who found childhood to be a very alienating and damaging experience, but, heh. To me the idea of not being subjected to an entire childhood of one family's issues sounds wise and lovely.
I'm not the mother type. Never have been, never will be (screw the notion that you just have to meet the right person and suddenly you want to bear their children, the right person for me would be one who doesn't want children either). The idea of a little zygote growing into a little embryo and then into a larger embryo, thence into a tiny terror does nothing to stir my emotions, unless you count the stirring of distaste. If it's the thing for you, great. It's not the thing for me.
But I was thinking today, as I sometimes have been known to think, that I would get a nice warm fuzzy feeling if I were allowed to donate eggs to stem cell research. They should set something up like that, not that they can because of insane people, but if they could, they should. The idea of my ovarian contents growing into an infant is completely unappealing to me, but the notion of them being used in the creation of a zygote which could assist in stem cell research is a happy fuzzy thought.
And my other thought. This film called K-Pax with Kevin Spacey was on telly last night, and there was this intersting notion put forth of a society where there are no families as we know them. The children are circulated around the society "learning from each person" [sic]. Some people might say, "What a loss that would be, to have no families."
I can hardly think of a more appealing concept. The family as an institution has never appealed to me. It seems a fine way to pass down generations of guilt, issues, abuse, hangups. I've thought before it would be nice if children had the opportunity instead to have a well-round experience of growing up, a variety of guardians and role models.
I may just be speaking as someone who found childhood to be a very alienating and damaging experience, but, heh. To me the idea of not being subjected to an entire childhood of one family's issues sounds wise and lovely.