Here’s something that pisses me off: Clear-Blue pregnancy test commercials. They’re the one with the feature that tell you roughly how long you’ve been pregnant in weeks. At the end, the woman says “the only thing it can’t tell is whether it’s a boy or girl”. Are you fucking kidding me, lady? Here are some reasons I think you're annoying:
1. Why is the only question that comes to mind when you discover you’re pregnant? To me, it sounds like this woman is using her kid’s sex to determine its future.
2. She uses the terms “boy” and “girl”. Gender is constructed and is hardly something one can predict when they’re six weeks pregnant. The terms “male” and “female” are more appropriate. If you don’t like the way it sounds in the commercial, leave that stupid bit out.
3. Are we assuming that we will know something about the kid if we do find out the probable sex?
4. The test can’t tell you if your kid is healthy, or if it’s going to have blue eyes, if it’s going to be a schizophrenic genius who will plot to kill you when it turns nine. The test can’t tell you who the father is. It can’t tell you if there are multiple things growing in your womb.
5. There are more than two sexes, there are even more genders. Stop trying to shove your binary down my throat.
No doubt there's more, but this was just a distraction from psychology for a few minutes. I'll be posting tonight or tomorrow about sexuality, bodies, language... that could hardly be more vague if I tried. .
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