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June 4th 2008 05:00
I was talking to a co-worker some time ago - a 45 year old male, loves his mother, has 2 dominating sisters. I made a mistake of ruefully remarking how much weight I'd gained at 3 months pregnant. All too heartily and readily, he agreed and proceeded to stretch out his cheeks with his fingers to demonstrate just how puffy my face had become. Now, I don't find this remotely amusing from a 3-year old and to see a 45-year old doing it...well, I immediately felt that hot itch (that is now becoming so familiar to me) at the back of my head and I pounded on the desk, toppling the cup of coffee into his lap and swore my head off for about 5 minutes, before promptly bursting into tears.
Within that same week, another male co-worker - 65, with a loving wife, a daughter my age -approached me in the midst of my third snack for the morning and said with that 'Oh, you are SO going to think I'm hilarious' smirk, "You do realise you're eating for two, not for six?" My reply resulted in my boss sending out warning emails to all employees to stay away.
As I began to think that perhaps some of the men I work with are simply dicks, an old friend of mine from Uni - newly married, 31 years - said matter-of-factly that I'd be very ugly when I start ballooning from 5 months as pregnant women are wont to do. Even a male stranger who had nothing better to do but observe my eating habits at a random party came up and said, "Guess it's time to say goodybe to the waistline, huh?" to which I replied, "I'm pregnant. What's your f*ing excuse, you a*hole?"
Now all this happened within 2 weeks approaching the end of my first trimester, and I was forced to ask, in this age where men are working more alongside women on a daily basis, the plethora of chick flicks, chick shows, chick lits and I thought, a more sensitive apporach and general awareness of what women are like, why are there still dicks in the world who risk their lives by making a joke about a pregnant woman's weight? I mean, you don't joke about the weight of a non-pregnant woman, for goodness' sake!
You see, pregnant women are at the mercy of their hormones as they have at least 8 mood-altering hormones. This means that some of us are drawn to totally insane outbursts - such as when I got into my car with the intent of ramming it into the back of a male co-worker or almost buying an apparatus to accompany my now spectacular road rages.
On top of these blessed hormones, there are other worries and insecurites we go through, especially for first-time mothers such as myself : Will I be a good mother? Will I be able to provide for my child financially? Will I have my figure back? To what extent will my life change?
So, for the sake of our beauty and your health, men, please think twice before you make a joke about a pregnant woman's weight. You do not want to mess with one. Trust me.
*image from clipart
Within that same week, another male co-worker - 65, with a loving wife, a daughter my age -approached me in the midst of my third snack for the morning and said with that 'Oh, you are SO going to think I'm hilarious' smirk, "You do realise you're eating for two, not for six?" My reply resulted in my boss sending out warning emails to all employees to stay away.
As I began to think that perhaps some of the men I work with are simply dicks, an old friend of mine from Uni - newly married, 31 years - said matter-of-factly that I'd be very ugly when I start ballooning from 5 months as pregnant women are wont to do. Even a male stranger who had nothing better to do but observe my eating habits at a random party came up and said, "Guess it's time to say goodybe to the waistline, huh?" to which I replied, "I'm pregnant. What's your f*ing excuse, you a*hole?"
Now all this happened within 2 weeks approaching the end of my first trimester, and I was forced to ask, in this age where men are working more alongside women on a daily basis, the plethora of chick flicks, chick shows, chick lits and I thought, a more sensitive apporach and general awareness of what women are like, why are there still dicks in the world who risk their lives by making a joke about a pregnant woman's weight? I mean, you don't joke about the weight of a non-pregnant woman, for goodness' sake!
You see, pregnant women are at the mercy of their hormones as they have at least 8 mood-altering hormones. This means that some of us are drawn to totally insane outbursts - such as when I got into my car with the intent of ramming it into the back of a male co-worker or almost buying an apparatus to accompany my now spectacular road rages.
On top of these blessed hormones, there are other worries and insecurites we go through, especially for first-time mothers such as myself : Will I be a good mother? Will I be able to provide for my child financially? Will I have my figure back? To what extent will my life change?
So, for the sake of our beauty and your health, men, please think twice before you make a joke about a pregnant woman's weight. You do not want to mess with one. Trust me.
*image from clipart
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Congrats to you first and well I do agree the sudden change of your body gets you edgy. I have seen my friends and my own sister-in-law going through it.
But be proud and happy that we women can do such changes.
The good part is all my friends who gave birth and breast feed lost about 2 sizes before they pregnant and now lovelier as ever more.
So do look forward for this miracle process and the cost-free weight lost at the end of the day. ^_^
Have a blessed day and congrats again.
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Congrats on the pregnancy. I love pregnancy. It gives me licence to laugh, cry, yell, EAT, and no-one can tell otherwise. I usually put it back on them with a remark like "are you really going to pick on the pregnant woman?"
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