WTF Friday

I could say its been a helluva week...but we all knew with everyone gone bi-polar would be on her "best" behavior. Currently up to 2 vodka & grapefruit after work this week. LOL
So like this week hasn't been a hoot already with her various "rants and raves" I open up my news website today and THIS is what I get slapped with!

Oprah Winfrey
By Michael Conlon, Reuters
4 hours ago
CHICAGO —
A transgender man who is six months pregnant said in an interview aired by Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that he always wanted to have a child and considers it a miracle.

"It's not a male or female desire to have a child. It's a human desire," a thinly bearded Thomas Beatie said. "I have a very stable male identity," he added, saying that pregnancy neither defines him nor makes him feel feminine.

Beatie, 34, who lives in Oregon, was born a woman but decided to become a man 10 years ago. He began taking testosterone treatments and had breast surgery to remove glands and flatten his chest.

"I opted not to do anything with my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day," he told the talk show host. Beatie's wife Nancy said she inseminated him with a syringe using sperm purchased from a bank.

Now, he said, his size 32 jeans are getting a bit tight and his shirts are a bit stretched.

Nancy, to whom he has been married for five years and who has two grown daughters by a previous marriage, also appeared on the show, saying the couple's roles will not change once the baby is born.

"He's going to be the father and I'm going to be the mother," she said. Their marriage is legal and he is recognized under state law as a man.

The couple was shown on video provided by People Magazine, which collaborated with Winfrey on the show, showing the room that will be the baby's nursery. Beatie said the little girl was going to be "daddy's little princess."

The couple was also filmed in their hometown of Bend, Oregon, where he underwent an ultrasound showing the baby in his womb.

"I can't believe it. I can't believe she's inside me," Beatie said while watching the ultrasound image. "We see her as our little miracle."

His obstetrician, Dr. Kimberly James, who practices in the Oregon town, told Winfrey, "This is a normal pregnancy."

She said Beatie stopped taking testosterone two years ago and his levels of the hormone are normal.

"This baby is totally healthy," she said. "This is what I consider a normal pregnancy."

OK, I shortened the article for posting BUT, a couple of key points here just made me do another Friday WTF!!!!

"This is a normal pregnancy."
"I have a very stable male identity"

First, define "normal"?
Will we now hear women ask men "OOOO whens your baby due"?

Will we have men's' maternity wear? You know for the business man that has to look professional even with swollen ankles?

Who gets the breast pump at the baby shower? Do you invite only men to the baby shower? What kind of shower games do you play? Pin the tail on the quarterback? WHAT IS proper baby shower etiquette?

WHY didn't the wife get pregnant? Yes, she could be unable to after already having two grown children....but WHY would she want her husband to experience childbirth?
That changes the whole "Until you can squeeze a watermelon out of your ass" argument.

Frankly regardless of "his" innards if you want to be a MAN be a MAN! Men who want children usually let their wives handle the "burp and squat". Matter of fact I can't think of one man I know who is willing to take on the whole pregnancy/childbirth experience.

How does/will society treat this? I mean true Oprah does carry some weight on a lot of topics but how far can she actually carry this man-preggers thing?

At 50yo when I was in the 3rd grade the kinda thing the "future" held was flying cars, totally cool "Flash Gordon" clothes and life was pretty much "The Jetsons".
NO WHERE did "men" get pregnant, There were no pregnant men walking around. Now I know he isn't really a "he" physically BUT he looks like a "he" now and I'm not sure how I feel about seeing a mans body preggers.

We are a nation of "prudes" in a whole lot of ways. Abortion, gay rights, racism, cloning etc. etc. What about this child as she grows up? Will her parents be honest about her conception and birth? I can hear the first "Mommy where did I come from"? conversation. "Well, honey you were in daddy's' tummy and..."

Will she be ostracized because her daddy gave birth to her? Well there be more of these birth experiences and this will not be abnormal or should I say out of the ordinary?

Who knows in the meantime I wonder if hes' going to have an "eppie" or natural childbirth? Will he go to Lamaze classes? That in its self would make an interesting post..don'tcha' think?