It makes me cringe too. There are legitimate critiques to make about having a large number of children, but this is just nasty, plus the “joke” is at a woman’s expense, as usual.
And, if the “joke” itself weren’t bad enough, the photo — in which the heads appear to have been cut and pasted on slightly-too-small bodies — is super creepy!
Gevalt! But the “joke” — which puts all the onus on Mrs. Duggar’s vagina while ignoring the role of Mr. Duggar’s testicles — is still nasty and misogynistic.
Huh– my reading of it was actually the exact opposite, perhaps because of the context: I think I’ve only come across it on feministe weblogs. In that context, it seemed to be mocking the way that the ‘quiverfull’ movement treats women’s reproductive capacity as simply a tool to be used for the purpose of generating as many of god’s soldiers as possible. So the tagline is intended to draw attention to this objectification, to the way it ignores or downplays the real nature of pregnancy/childbirth.
Maybe I was too generous, but that was how I read it, at least.
It makes me cringe too. There are legitimate critiques to make about having a large number of children, but this is just nasty, plus the “joke” is at a woman’s expense, as usual.
And, if the “joke” itself weren’t bad enough, the photo — in which the heads appear to have been cut and pasted on slightly-too-small bodies — is super creepy!
Actually Eric, I think the photo is “legit” – it was probably copied without permission from this site:
http://www.duggarfamily.com/
The photo is not only “legit,” it’s already out of date. Just last week she had another child.
That’s one full quiver they have there.
Gevalt! But the “joke” — which puts all the onus on Mrs. Duggar’s vagina while ignoring the role of Mr. Duggar’s testicles — is still nasty and misogynistic.
Huh– my reading of it was actually the exact opposite, perhaps because of the context: I think I’ve only come across it on feministe weblogs. In that context, it seemed to be mocking the way that the ‘quiverfull’ movement treats women’s reproductive capacity as simply a tool to be used for the purpose of generating as many of god’s soldiers as possible. So the tagline is intended to draw attention to this objectification, to the way it ignores or downplays the real nature of pregnancy/childbirth.
Maybe I was too generous, but that was how I read it, at least.