Welcome one and all to the mystifying world of Fudgepudge.

I’m very excited about this project and will wholly use it as a medium for self-improvement. I’ll try to write a lot, to draw a lot, to design a lot, but mostly to think a lot. Most of my posts will probably be in reference to contemporary feminist issues, and the beautiful thing about that is that it encompasses…well, everything.

But rather than begining with something complicated or subverted, I’d like to start with something a bit more formulaic (but nonetheless important). Upon my adventures traveling through the internets, I happened upon the blog of someone who had a bad experience with a cesarean birth; she and the baby are alive and relatively healthy but she has a lot of mental and emotional issues regarding the unnecessary procedure. What worries me about the blog is not the inaccuracies she displays as a form of cathartic healing to get her rage and hurt out, but that she blatantly perpetuates dangerous misinformation under the guise of wanting to educate people from her experience. She believes that all women should have home-births and that any woman who chooses to have a medicated hospital birth or unnecessary cesarean is by default relinquishing her maternal responsibilities.

She claims that she will not stop screaming until the medical world releases women from their avaricious grip of scaring and guilting expectant mothers into making childbirth a medical procedure and claims she wants all the”womb pods” to be unplugged; she then goes on to post a comic stating that the female body was meant to give birth. I don’t know about you, but my body was made for a hell of a lot more than just giving birth.

I’ll post a link and a detailed response, which I will be e-mailing to the author, in a future post.

Hello, and welcome to FudgePudge.