Thread by @ProtectYoFaith

Let’s discuss this supposed traumatic experience of men in birthing rooms. It’s bullshit.
Men who are made to go to war? To kill strangers? Stab their guts and chop their heads, torture them for intel, and who then go home and eat supper as normal? These men can’t watch a birth?

https://twitter.com/Baarey1965/status/1403061921222438912

Men who are not fazed by watching women tortured and abused? Not fazed by women being raped? Not fazed by all the violent porn they watch? Men who boast about how all real men should slaughter animals. Men who promote public executions and lashings and amputations ? trauma?

bullshit.
Yes men are “traumatized” during birth. But let me explain what it actually is they’re traumatized of. Being forced to empathize with the woman they f***. Forced to center her and her needs, everyone attentive to her and not him.
Traumatized by humanizing her.

That’s what this guy admits in his tweet. men are not able to have sex with their wives as easily As before. Because theyve humanized her too much. They have empathized with a woman more than they ever have before.
A man who watched his wife give birth will hesitate to hurt her

That is why the more misogynist a society is, the more likely it is that men will never enter a birthing room. If they can prevent men from ever fully humanizing and feeling the pain that women endures, they will. Being present with a wife giving birth is extremely connective

Misogyny does not allow women and men to be connected in that way. And it does not allow women to humanized in that way. So it will prevent this practice at all costs.
The negative effects are continued callousness of men to their wives, lack of sympathy for their struggle

It also results in men being less likely to intervene to alleviate their wife’s load and help her out, or get others around her to give her a break. And of course, A lack of care for their recovery and pressing them into sex before their bodies are healed and ready.

Girls, your husband being there with you as your child is born is SO important. It is the most important bonding moment, you enter into a new level of companionship and understanding.
I could never have given birth and gone through postpartum without my husband By my side

And it is so stupid that we even have to say this, but the person who suffers the most trauma during birth is the mother. Period. It is traumatic.
And yet she has to do it again and again.
Nothing the man experiences can even compare.