A Conversation About Babies
Apr. 8th, 2009 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo"Now there are real babies around," says Ailz. "I can see that my pets are simply baby substitutes."
"That's a woman thing," I say. "Women must have something in their brains that makes them respond to small helpless creatures. I know I don't have it."
"The need to have something totally dependent on you," she says.
"For me," I say, "babies are just potential human beings. I value them for what they're going to become. The sooner they're out of the drooling, up-chucking, helpless stage the better."
"I suspect the babies feel that way too," says Ailz.
"That's a woman thing," I say. "Women must have something in their brains that makes them respond to small helpless creatures. I know I don't have it."
"The need to have something totally dependent on you," she says.
"For me," I say, "babies are just potential human beings. I value them for what they're going to become. The sooner they're out of the drooling, up-chucking, helpless stage the better."
"I suspect the babies feel that way too," says Ailz.
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Date: 2009-04-08 02:33 pm (UTC)I like them when they're about three and up. I love their potential. I love their limitless worlds when they're between that magical age of 3 and 7.
My boyfriend and I have this conversation all the time. He says "women cute/miniature things what the hell yadda yadda" and then I laugh when he succumbs to it. :)
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Date: 2009-04-08 03:41 pm (UTC)I'm quite good with small people- and I think that's precisely because I relate to them as people- and not as fuzzy little packets of cute.
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Date: 2009-04-08 03:57 pm (UTC)I suppose I should say the kind of cute, small, and/or fuzzy I fall for is mostly all the animal kingdom except humans, heh.
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Date: 2009-04-08 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-08 03:59 pm (UTC)Tom F
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Date: 2009-04-08 04:29 pm (UTC)It must be a bit of an anxious time for the two of you
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Date: 2009-04-09 07:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-09 08:15 am (UTC)I can vaguely remember what it was like to be an expectant father for the first time. Most everything else faded into insignificance.