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Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for March 14, 2025
March 13, 2025
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She’s A Human Being, Not A Wonderball!
I knew a guy from a country that was apparently conservative to the point where things like labor and birth weren’t discussed much. He had absolutely no idea how it worked. He knew the fun guy part of the process, but the ugly details about giving birth were women’s things that men didn’t need to be — and should not be — present for. (I’m also male.)
We discovered this when [Guy] watched a movie with me that had a delivery scene in it. He was very confused to see the doctor pull a baby out from underneath a towel tastefully concealing the supposed birth.
Guy: “Wait, how did he get the baby out? Where’s the knife?”
Me: “Um, giving birth usually doesn’t require a knife, unless something went wrong. Then they do a C-section.”
Guy: “But then how did the baby get out?”
I had to pause to think about how to delicately explain this to a grown man.
Me: “Well, the baby comes out the same way it went in.”
I have never seen someone cycle through pensiveness, realization, disgust, and shock so quickly. We ended up with an impromptu biology lesson, supplemented with the Internet and pictures. [Guy] experienced a mix of horrified disgust and morbid fascination. On the plus side, he was listening and learning, so here’s hoping.