Mothers are Sluts and I am Fucking Sick of Their Bullshit. A Contrarian Mother’s Day Post.

Even in a non-patriarchal context, unless non-technological parthenogenesis has been achieved, creating a pregnancy would necessarily entail procuring sperm, and that normally means that a male somewhere has achieved orgasm which is usually considered pleasing to men. Human reproduction itself in every context may therefore be dependent on (or at least inexorably linked to) male-pleasing.

However, in a patriarchal context, the male-pleasing is even more clear and even more problematic, especially where and if mothers think that they are better than non-mothers, and that they hold a position of legitimate power and authority over anyone and Holy Shit, mothers do think that, don’t they? Mothers think they have a legitimate claim of authority over everyone, including their own children, other people’s children, and importantly over child-free women, who mothers regard as overgrown babies no matter how old or experienced we are. But this claim of authority is not based in anything legitimate, and maternal authority is therefore not a legitimate authority at all.

To wit, in my estimation, under the current paradigm, women become impregnated, and thus become mothers, under the following conditions: by engaging in heterosexual sex, which for females is a sexuality rather defined by pleasing men; through rape, which is also pleasing to men and which many men find indistinguishable from sex; and via patriarchal reproductive technologies, where women let Big Medicine and Western medical doctors torture and experiment on them, where males are known to enjoy torturing females, males, and nonhuman animals and they do it for sport, and have elevated torture to an artform. Women can also become “mothers” by stealing other women’s babies, which hardly cements their claim of legitimate authority over anyone.