Sunday, January 27, 2019

We Tried to Choose the Sex of Our Baby

We Tried to Choose the Sex of Our Baby
Even though we knew it shouldn't matter.

Published in P. S. I Love You on Medium.
My baby peeking at you. Photo Credit: Author

"We thought about all the cultures that favored boy babies, and wanted to offset that. Smash the patriarchy, and all that.
And we both appreciated how, currently, it’s a lot easier to raise a female to be whoever she wants to be (quiet or loud, wild or bookish, beautifully embodying every contradiction). Raising males this way is important work too, but it sounded harder, and we are lazy.
So why not just choose a girl?"



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