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

probably tmi...

[dramaticaddict.livejournal.com]

hey, i know im a guy, and dont have ovaries, and havnt, and im not transgender, so i dont want them, i mean, i like my penis, and i like my boyfriends penis too... i guess where im going is, everyone says im as close to a girl as possible, without being one, even toi the point that i get cold in the same places as a girl and blah blah blah, just ask sometime..
so anyway, i took the quiz, because i think about wanting kids at least once a month, usually twice, which sux because a) im gay, b) im sterile, c) im too poor for alternatives and d) J doesnt want any. but still, i totally think about it... strangely, i sometimes think about being pregnant, even tho, as stated above, i have and love my penis.

Re: probably tmi...

[dramaticaddict.livejournal.com]

o, i forgot, when im in these moods, wanting a kid and thinking about being pregnant, i often rub my belly like i am pregnant...without realizing it...