[Marxism] In Defense of Nadya Suleman (or, Hetero Breeding Running Amok)

[David Thorstad <binesi@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Workers World article is typical of their Manichaean worldview. 
Everything reduces to them or us, evil or good. So naturally this 
pathetic woman smiling stupidly on TV interviews and apparently unaware 
of how self-centered and idiotic her rampant breeding is, even if she 
hopes to use surviving offspring as a cash cow at the public trough, is 
just another poor victim of right-wing misogyny.
    Whether or not the woman's family is truthful in declaring her 
mentally impaired, it is the height of irresponsibility for her--and the 
doctors who facilitated her two broods--to bring fourteen babies into 
the world with no way of supporting them short of resorting to 
taxpayers. Her behavior is unethical, immoral, and selfish. On a smaller 
scale, she resembles the bankers feeding at the public trough. She is a 
caricature of the prevailing hetero ideology of breeding as a positive 
public good.
    Heteros (and Workers World) ought to ask themselves why 
out-of-control breeding is something they support. What has the world 
come to when a woman chooses to live through her (way too many) 
children? What kind of fulfilling life do they think her offspring (if 
they survive) will have with such a mom? Would they be overjoyed to face 
life as one of her kids? Why did the message of feminism fail to reach 
her? Of course, increasing numbers of same-sexers are busy joining the 
breeding cohort and aping the worst aspects of heterosexuality, of which 
she is only an extreme example.
David

J Rothermel wrote:
 > Motherhood, malice & the media
 > <http://www.workers.org/2009/editorials/media_0226>*
 >
 > Nadya Suleman, the mother of octuplets born on Jan. 26, immediately ran
 > into a well-orchestrated cacophony of vitriol. Much of the furor has
 > centered on the 33-year-old California womanâs mental stability or lack
 > thereof in bringing eight more ....

Louis Proyect wrote:
I personally think that the woman *is* nuts. In fact, her mother and
father have said this in television interviews. However, the WWP article
is correct in pointing out the reactionary character of the attack on
her, including from "radical" lawyer Ron Kuby who has ranted against her
for days on end on his Air America radio show.


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