Today is a beautiful sunny day. This morning I'll be in a different seaside town to the one I usually work in, but I don't think I'll get to see the sea today either - it's a rare day that I do, when a home visit requires me to travel along the (slow) prom to get there.
My random thinking of the day is about whether it would be possible to have a baby and not let on to anyone else the baby's sex. I may have discussed here before the impact such a revelation has. A friend told me how on the ward after delivery she heard a brand new baby girl be told off for farting as it was not ladylike. And I once noticed a bloke talking to my daughter in her pushchair and the tone was different to the way she was usually spoken to, and at the end he called her "son" and I realised he had thought her to be a boy, and so was speaking in a different tone. Incredible.
I once watched a really interesting programme on inter sex babies, where gentalia isn't initially determinable and so parents sometimes choose to raise their child as one particular gender. How different would the world be if we didn't get seen as a certain way,. according to our bits, from the moment they are first visible,be it in or out of the womb.
Anyway, work.
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