Random News

Two things in the news, disturbing me for different reasons and in different ways, or two different news items that I just don’t know how to write about.

1) Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who imprisoned his own daughter in his cellar for 24 years, and fathered her seven children.

2) Michelle Duggar, the woman in Arkansas who is happily pregnant with her 18th child.

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Addendum:

I tagged this blog post “Feminism,” when I think I should have tagged it “Family Values.”

I realize the two individuals I name above don’t have anything to do with each other. I think at least Duggar is happy and healthy (physically and mentally).

I am just thinking about what women’s bodies are for, what are the limits on this, and who decides these things.

I am thinking also of family, and the role of women and the role of women’s bodies in family. Must we be reproduction machines?

Or maybe I should have tagged this entry, “Shit that Confuses Me.”