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Thomas Beatie is legally married, legally male and pregnant. His pregnancy has caught the attention of numerous media outlets, even Oprah and People magazine. Originally thought to be a hoax, his ultrasound on Oprah along with an interview with him and his wife, seems to have convinced the public that this man is pregnant.

Thomas Beatie is transgendered man. The biology behind is pregnancy is pretty simple. By stopping testosterone injections Thomas Beatie was able to get pregnant through artificial insemination. It's hard for me to believe Thomas Beatie is the first pregnant man for this reason. Some websites claim the first pregnant man was a transgendered, homosexual man about 20 years ago. Some intersex individuals who live as men can also have children, so it's very possible Thomas Beatie is not the first pregnant man.

Big News: Nicole Richie's Baby is in Danger!

Well according to Star Magazine anyways. Her days of "hard living" could cause her 12 week old fetus to be miscarried or suffer from birth defects.

What about HER life? What about her dying from her anorexia that the media claims she has (I'm not saying that she does or does not have an eating disorder, just that the media is making that claim not Nicole Richie or her family), what about her dying when she was driving on the wrong side of an LA freeway, what about her life when the media claimed she was doing "heroin and pills"? Why when she makes the "right" decision according to the conservatives in our society and continues her pregnancy despite her battles with addiction, is she being set up to become the next "bad mommy" in our media? Why does our media care more about Nicole Richie's fetus, then Nicole Richie?

With each passing day, it is closer to the end of October. It is approaching Halloween, approaching NaNoWriMo, but most importantly approaching the anniversary of Daddy's death last year. Each day is another day gone from my life, another day less of the time I have to be unable to see my Daddy. It's also another day closer to the end of my mourning.

What does that mean? It means, as of November twenty-eighth, 2006, I will be allowed to wear colour again. I don't think I will, for sheer dislike of colour and all things happy. I've gone back to my normal, jaded self after a brief urge to be able to wear colour. It means my Daddy passed on nearly one year ago. Almost a year I've lived without him. Somehow I didn't think I would live this long.

I tried typing this entry up last night around 11 am. After about 2 hours of typing, searching, editing, I discovered my post was complete gibberish. So here is my second try...

Attachment Parenting is a rebellion against western, Freudian parenthood philosophies. Instead of attempting to force independence on to an infant, attachment parents would like to embrace the very spiritual bond between them and their children. According to Dr. Sears, the inventor of the philosophy (or leader of the rebellion) there are seven baby b's. They include breastfeeding, bonding, bed sharing, baby wearing, balance, listening to a babies cry and staying away from scheduling techniques of child rearing. Many attachment parents would like to include other ideas into the mix, such as raising their children vegan or homeschooling.

So I spent most of last week hanging out with my partner and catching up on way too much time apart. At one point, we were watching the Colbert Report and saw him interviewing feminist author Linda Hirshman about her new book, "Get to Work".

As far as I can tell, the general consensus is that feminism is all about making it possible for women to have choices. In the context of that, all choices should be valid choices. There is no 'right' or 'wrong'. There is only what any given individual woman wants to do with her life and how she choses to go about this.

Similarly, I assume we can all agree that even in our Western culture, being a stay-at-home-mom and being a homemaker has not always been a matter of free choice for women. Even those who do want children are oftentimes forced -either explicitly or implicitly- to stay at home and care for their children. Even with lack of complete evidence for this, the opinion that children whose mothers have a career will ultimately be damaged by this is still rampant.

I quit my job a little over a week ago and already I am bored out of my mind. The bright side is it seems like I quit just in time; with the temperature outside apporaching a 100 degrees, walking almost a mile in black pants and a dark shirt wouldn't be a good idea.

Yet, I am bored. So, I have been doing what any other unemployed teenager would be doing: watching hour after hour of TV. One of my favorate channels has always been Discovery Health. I have always found genetic conditions interesting and they do alot of speicals on such. As a pregnant woman, interest has turned into concern.