Date: 11/05/2025 07:52:53
From: roughbarked
ID: 2281085
Subject: Mother's Day
Carrick Ryan
I wrote this earlier this year, but thought it was worth re-sharing for Mother’s Day.
Nature demands a lot from Women.
By assigning their bodies the overwhelming burden of responsibility for the task of reproduction, we ask significantly more of Women’s bodies than we ever do of Men’s.
Men’s bodies are tasked with only one obligation, to sustain the life of the host.
Women’s bodies are tasked with creating it.
…then nurturing this new life when it cannot possibly sustain itself, with providing anything this new life needs, to growing it, and protecting it… then, and only then, will it commit to the task of sustaining itself.
By merely possessing a reproductive system, a woman is more prone to chronic diseases than men. They have seven unique organs that men don’t, all committed to the reproductive process. Which means more organs that must be developed, cared for, and can at any point become cancerous or malfunction.
Menstrual cycles are at best a monthly inconvenience for most of their lives, and at worst an endless excruciating physical torture from within their own bodies… and that’s all before the physical duress of carrying a child.
During pregnancy a Woman’s body is twisted and stretched in a way no Man’s could ever endure, their organs are squashed, its nutrients and vitamins are diverted, often with months of debilitating nausea and fatigue, and at least a few weeks of almost complete incapacitation.
Only then to be compelled to endure hours of anatomically defying physical trauma which often literally tears through her skin. Or perhaps she is afforded the comparably less glorified pain of invasive surgery being conducted on her WHILE SHE’S AWAKE!!!
Over the course of human history, more Women have died in child birth than all the Men that have ever died in all of history’s wars.
By bearing humanity’s children, we ask a lot of Women.
…all they ask for in return is the right to choose if and when they do it.
Every woman should have that right.
