Last week, I had the real pleasure of seeing real time evidence proving one my theories crop up. Last week, I wrote about the octuplets case to point out that claims that this woman had her childbirth urge go haywire didn’t make sense, because there is probably no biological urge to have children that’s a separate entity from the urge to fuck. To say this is not to say any of these things:
1) That nature has no way of encouraging childbirth
2) That women who feel a strong desire to give birth don’t exist
3) That biological urges are more real than cultural constructs. Cultural constructs are just as real, and maybe even more real in some cases.
I was specifically attacking the recent cultural invention of a fake biological urge called the “biological clock”, which is this weird belief that women have genetic programming that tells them to freak out if they haven’t given birth by age 30 or 35 or 25, whatever you want it to be. The “biological clock” was created to intimidate the willfully childless, sure, but mostly it’s there to strike out at women who do want children. It’s an attempt to pressure women into accepting marriage and childbirth before they’ve established themselves in their careers both to make them dependent on their husbands and to permanently hurt their ability to compete with men in the workplace on a more equal plane. Also, that the belief that women have a biological desire for childbirth instead of for sex was a traditional way for sexists to deny that women have a real sexuality worth respecting.
And as one, as if they were wanting to prove my point, a bunch of sexist asswipes rose up and screamed, “There is TOO a biological clock!” If my theory is true, then we would expect the sort of reaction I saw in my trackbacks. Humorously and predictably, male wingnuts like this one gathered around a woman who debases herself for male approval named Darleen Click, who I would say was an incompetent affirmative action pick at Protein Wisdom if the male bloggers weren’t just as dumb as she is. According to the linkers, Darleen “eviscerated” my argument. With evidence of this biological clock, which is the only real way to eviscerate my argument? Of course not. Sexists don’t need evidence—-stomping your feet is evidence.