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

[chayam.livejournal.com]

This may sound horrible in more than one way, but although I have four children I have almost never thought about whether it's the right time to have a baby. Strangely, I've never been a kid-crazy kind of gal-- I still don't like children all that much--and if I hadn't have accidentally gotten pregnant with my first I probably never would have known how awesome having children is. (My kids are the greatest things on the planet; every other child, not so much. :-P )

That said, my husband and I have spoken of having another, so for the first real time in my life I give thought to when would be a good time to do so, if we do.

Craving babies and pregnancy is a little difficult for me to understand.

[otterkin.livejournal.com]

...I probably never would have known how awesome having children is.

That, in a nutshell, is my one lingering worry about deciding not to have kids. On the other hand, I've experienced much more misery in my life by doing things that I feel I should (but don't want to) than from regret of not having done something.