[LMB] Feminism, uterine replicators, and Lois Bujold

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Elizabeth Mitchell wrote:

> I have to say I always found Bujold's view to be
> more....optimistic than Huxley's. She turned into another
> choice for women, for the most part. (Not counting Athos, which
> is its own special case.) It wasn't meant to control people in
> a new way, but to let people control their reproductive
> choices.

Well, simply put, there is no useful technology that cannot be
used in harmful ways, and a human mind determined on evil is as
creative as one determined on good.  One could always suppress
all technologies, but all that would really do is put the
ultimate power into the hands of those with the most brute
strength and the greatest charisma, and it certainly wouldn't
last long, nor would it make human lifetimes longer, less tedious
or happier.

The uterine replicator is a choice.  It's no-one's business other
than an individual woman's why she prefers this option over
natural pregnancy--whether, for health reasons, she can't have a
healthy pregnancy or birth, or whether she's an athlete or dancer
who needs to use her body for other things and doesn't want the
permanent, profound changes that come from even the easiest,
healthiest pregnancy, or whether she just finds the idea of being
a host for another living being profoundly unappealing.

~malfoy :)
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