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Thursday, April 17, 2008

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posted by bitchphd
And it's fascinating that she had to "[state] to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and that she did not induce any miscarriages." And that the reactions in the comment thread below were almost entirely about whether she had the right to do this, whether it was "responsible," and whether it was art. In other words, we absolutely cannot get past our sense of ownership of women's pregnancies.

In a way this is a good thing (and probably, to some extent, unavoidable in intelligent social animals).

And in a way, it's very very fucked up.

Good for her. Like I said, definitely an "A." I, for one, am proud to have been part of her project.

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