WHAT IF DADS BECAME MOTHERS?

Might there be a reason why all of a sudden we are thrust into the centre of a controversy on the ancient boy beats girl phenomenon, which this time takes us behind the scenes of the multi-million dollar world of glamour and glitz.

All through the past week we learned that a fellow who seemingly had the talent to recognise shapes the world sought, and had the oomph to realise the girls' dreams for them, also desired those aspiring starlets for himself.

Naturally we readers and viewers weren't told what the poor innocents won from the oldest routine in the world.

Maybe these starlet hopefuls were left starving by the wayside, babe in arms, shame stamped upon their foreheads. However, it just might be that they were launched into a celluloid showbiz world, winning astonishing fame and rather a lot of money.

As a journalist for many years, I know we're unlikely to discover what really lies behind these headlines, what motivated the story and its follow-on stories to dominate world news.

A smoke screen

However, as I suggested in the previous blog, I'm certainly up to guessing why this was sprung on us internationally.

It's more than likely that the passion palava was a smokescreen for a far more inconsiderate and long-term failure by my gender, to divert attention from its inattention to the result of successful loving. I'm airing a feeling I have about giving birth. Attend one, and I believe that any human who hasn't witnessed it before will be astonished that we cling to such an archaic form of torture.

Can you name even one medical procedure that has changed so little since the days of Eve? Take the now simple, once agonising, aspects of life. I remember how dentistry even sixty years ago was torture. Men need dentistry, and men found the answer. Now even the worst procedures in the dental chair are just about a doddle. It's certainly so if your dentist is even half as caring as the expert I see, Mr Joe Narcisi.

Take medical matters - inoculations, injections, blood tests. They're almost a pleasure these days.

In fact, any medical or surgical procedure involving my gender, is far better than humane. Why then has the suffering side of giving birth changed so little? My answer is on the blogs for my sailing adventure book, Sailing to Purgatory, at >>> SailingToPurgatory.com