I love/hate science fiction.

[featherynscale]

So, I'm reading this book called Mockymen. It's not a good book. Let's leave aside for the moment the fact that the author took all that writing advice about showing, not telling, and decided it was so much crap. Let's also leave aside the fact that it appears to have plot enough for several unrelated novels, all jammed together in one short book (this feat largely being accomplished by taking out all the motivation and most of the transition between plot points).

Aside from that stuff, what I don't like about this book is that the main character (so far) is female, and the (apparently male) author has decided that it will make her a more realistic female character if she thinks about having a baby, and when would be the right time to have a baby, and why she and her partner haven't had a baby, and so on, about once every three pages.

Now, as you might be aware if you know me, or even if you read my journal regularly, I gave up trying to be female when I realized that a) it was sort of a crap game, and b) I was never going to be any good at it anyway. So I'm willing to believe that it's possible that women really do constantly think about having babies, and that's normal for the population. Therefore, I'm seeking further data. If you're a female-type person with female-type biology (or you used to be and/or used to have same), please enlighten me by making the clicky on the poll, below.

[Poll #1095206]

Comments

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

I just turned 30. I'm not old enough to start thinking about grandbabies *quite* yet. :P

I don't even really want a dog. I enjoy being with my mother-in-law's 6, but they're also a perfect illustration of why I don't need one of those either. I do good to take care of myself & my husband with cooking, laundry, & other domesticness. Forget a 4-footed or a wee one.

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

Loretta Lyn was a grammy at 29! Guess that's what happens when one starts dropping babies when they are 13. Can you imagine? I can't.

I'm well over 30 though, and my sons are certainly old enough to be drug onto Maury and have a forced paternity test thrust upon them, but no... :)_ I'm kidding, I'm proud of them, but still...get with it already sons!