Thoughts on Nadya Suleman (CAUTION: Contains copious amounts of snark and hyperbole)

[matrixrefugee]

Aka "Litter Lady"

First off, her and that doctor who phone-booth stuffed her uterus fail Anatomy 101. Humans were *NOT* designed to carry litters. If we were, we'd have multiple sets of breasts/nipples/teats like a pig or a cat or a dog or some mammal that actually *has* a litter. I'm sure there are immature guys out there who'd think that would be awesome, but I'd be handing those guys some bags of bird seed to strap to their chests to see what it's like. Yes, I know twins and triplets and quads and quints sometimes happen naturally, but they're rare. Or at least they used to be, till the advent of fertility drugs and other reproductive technology (my personal jury is out on fertility drugs, but I believe IVF is a Very Bad Idea, for the reasons above and to come).

Also, what is this guy? One of the Bene Tleilaxu in Frank Herbert's "Dune" novels, the ones who used captured women (and the females of their own kind) for their axlotl tanks to grow gholas, etc? (Major spoilers, but for those not familiar with the Dune-verse, the Bene Tlielaxu were a race of bio-engineers whose main specialty seemed to be doing things that would give David Cronenberg and H.R. Giger both bad cases of PTSD. This includes using women to grow full-size clones of the deceased. Full-sized. Clones. Yeah. Think about that mental image for a moment...) Whoever that doctor is, he needs to have his medical license revoked to the point that he can't even offer an Advil to a person with a headache.

Second, while I know parental licensing is impossible to enforce without it becoming draconian, it's people like Ms. Suleman who cause me to think it's Not Such a Bad Idea. If you are not mentally stable enough to take care of yourself, let alone a child, removing you from the gene pool would not be such a bad idea. But then we get onto that slippery slope of eugenics, and think about how that's been used...

Third, Ms. Suleman, you are you. You are not Angelina Jolie, you don't look anything like her, plastic surgery or no. A few things that make you different: you haven't made all the movies that she's made. You therefore don't have the kind of money that Angelina has. Plus, you don't have Brad Pitt for a baby-daddy/common-law spouse. You've got some anonymous donor giving you his semen in test tubes or little plastic containers, or whatever it is they put it into to deliver it to the sperm bank.

However, you do have her tabloid notoriety. Up to and including *DEATH THREATS*. I have a sinking feeling you didn't see that one coming, in your quest for fame so you can get a handout for all those kids.

On top of this, you have three disabled kids -- including one who's autistic --, and the eight you just dragged into the world are all probably going to have health problems as well. What a way to mess up a kid's life from the follicular stage onward. To quote John Constantine in the movie, "They did what any good parent would do: they made it worse."

I wish to God that California CPS would take custody of all those kids, put them in good homes and put Ms. Suleman somewhere where she can't hurt anyone, including herself. And have only certified female caretakers looking after her, so she can't seduce some male caretaker and get herself knocked-up. Give this woman a collection of those animatronic baby dolls that they're using to teach teenagers about how high-maintenance babies are to encourage them to wait before they start popping kids out.

Yes, I'm mad as hell with this woman's actions.

Comments

[koemiko.livejournal.com]

My sister works in the medical field... she says you see shit like this happen all the time. It's not that the Doctors are stupid, it's just that these idiots threaten lawsuits if doctors don't cram that many eggs up there. Worst part is that even if the doctors refuse, whether or not they get in a huge money battle with some batshit insane twatmuffin or not, they earn a nice dark stain on their reputation.

She (my sister) has also seen:
- People making babies stating, "hopefully, child services won't take THIS one away!"
- People making babies who are struggling with income. Upon receiving donations, they start bragging about the new big screen TV they got
- A couple who were standing in the check-in area, while the wife is about to go into labor, waving away the staff (who are trying to get her checked in) so she and her family could respond to the local news station.

My Mom (who ALSO works in the medical field) suspects the reason she queefed out more is so she could ride the welfare/sympathy wave into a vacation from responsibility.





I bet her uterus isn't on speaking terms with her.