the sensibilities of the week took a downward direction when i overdid work and lifting my dog and put my back out. too much attention being paid to the noise in my head and not enough to the physical well-being of my being.
isolated myself to not subject others to my woe-is-me-ness and wallowed for a while in self pitty. still a bit sore but on the mend both emotionally and mentally. felt isolated by others who for what ever reason treated me with the attitude of one who was just complaining. we'll you know what, to you it might be complaining but to me it's an important aspect of who i am. and i don't think it's just me. the need to release the pressure and get things out of my head and off my chest have a cleansing cathartic effect needed to shift the gremlins.
once i stopped being so hard on myself and took a look at the world around me i discovered this whole controversy over the "pregnant man" which has been swirling. What a great story and one which is not in one sense new, other men have had babies before, but in another sense is new in that Thomas has come forward on a very public platform to tell his story, I mean come on, Oprah, how much more public can you get!
I love the challenging of the normativity assumed within sex, gender and sexuality this story provides. and i think the responses have been quite interesting, expected, and at least to me, dissapointing. But then again the normalizing of stories such as this wouldn't mean the challenging of 'conventional normality' has been overcome but that backlash agianst the perceived other remains unheard. i for one would prefer to have the discussion of these issues in the public forum, and i think it is quite brave of Thomas and his family to take this step.
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