A Seahorse Worldview

Just a bit of drabble that came out after reading some comments on an article explaining the difference between pro-life and pro-birth, and the hypocrisy that is embedded in the subject.

Sometimes I wonder what our world would be like if we were like seahorses. 

The male seahorses are the ones who carry the children. 

If men were the ones who had to take responsibility for having sex and getting pregnant without the means or preparedness to support their children...

Would society still be trying to take their reproductive rights away? 

I think about that, but then I think that the human binary way of thinking would just completely reverse the roles.

Men would be the new women. 

The oppressed sex. 

The ones who are always fighting for rights that they have been denied by the privileged. 

Because people just don't seem to have enough empathy or willingness to give up some of their own privilege. 

"The more you have, the less I have" mentality is going to be our demise if we don't

shape 

the 

f**k 

up.

Author's Note

Talk to me. Thoughts?

Reviews

[aleezae khan]

I agree, you have some interesting thoughts. Men getting pregnant and children being there responsibility, its so good,

[Igarin]

I do agree with the reverse roles and how indeed one group will be dominant and the other passive. However, that is the problem and equality then becomes confusing and ridiculous, because for men to even have an opinion as to what women can and cannot do with their bodies is absurd

[maissa]

" Men would be the new women. " i love this line the most , it shows that no matter how ,society is still the same

[Hand]

"If men were the ones who had to take responsibility for having sex and getting pregnant"

I'd want to be ten years younger...and a woman.

There will always be someone who has but doesn't deserve and someone who deserves but doesn't have. The difference between having and not having is simply the luck of the draw (most of the time). You could also argue that we determine our own destiny. Try making that point to a gazelle getting eaten by a lion, or to a little kid dying of cancer. There will always be someone or something that's handed the short straw in life. The female black widow spider eats the male after they mate. Some people fly around in private jets while others are born into poverty and without legs to walk on. Almost every angle you look at it from it's a seemingly endless sea of undeserved privileges and punishments. It doesn't even matter what species you're a member of. There will always be opposing forces. One group trying to stomp on another group just for being different.

We'll figure it out one day.

OH AND YOU WATCH!!!......THE SECOND...and I do mean THE SECOND us humans figure it all out and start singing Kumbaya together in perfect harmony and discover the cure for all disease and the secrets to sustaining our bodies on nothing but love and skittles...YOU WATCH...Some freaking alien half BORG half shark half clown race is gonna come out of the universal woodwork to enslave us and breed us for their own food source and use the remainder of our uneaten bodies as an alternative bio fuel to help offset the proton emissions from their limited edition star cruisers. Typical.

[Sjay]

That's exactly what I've thought about so many times. I totally agree with you.

[Delmar Cooper]

I am never the one who touts the "Plan" of the universe. But, I think about men being in charge of, and responsible for, children and my next thought is "Go Plan, good job."

[hardeep sabharwal]

Very interesting, you raised some questions which are needed to answer, thank you for such a thought provoking write

[Eliot Knight]

I never understood the mentality of pro-lifers, their arguments are lacking and repetitive, based on theoretical possibilities rather than real life examples. Male privilege is getting out of hand to be honest. Completely agree with everything you have said.

[Ruth]

Shaping up is more needed than ever yet some choose ignorance as a survival mode to life, sadly, interesting thoughts :)

[Lyan]

You bring up interesting points. It would be quite a trip if men were the ones to bear children. How would our society be different from the way it is now? Would we then want woman to bear? Or whether man or woman it doesn't matter, we'd still find something wrong.