Call Me Old-Fashioned, But …
Posted on | June 3, 2014 | 48 Comments
. . . as the father of six children, the standard method of procreation has always seemed to me both efficient and fun.
Others, however, consider the natural way of baby-making to be too messy and unscientific, and so Progress demands a Brave New World of “reproductive technology,” about which Alexis Madigral of The Atlantic enthusiastically cheers. Synthetic gametes? Excuse my skepticism, Doctor Frankenstein, but I still prefer the messy natural way.
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June 3rd, 2014 @ 11:35 am
Call Me Old-Fashioned, But …: , , , as the father of six children, the standard penis-in-vagina method of proc… http://t.co/cx7vcGu8aH
June 3rd, 2014 @ 11:35 am
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June 3rd, 2014 @ 11:35 am
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June 3rd, 2014 @ 11:35 am
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June 3rd, 2014 @ 11:35 am
Call Me Old-Fashioned, But …: , , , as the father of six children, the standard penis-in-vagina method of proc… http://t.co/EmKD0ZV7k1
June 3rd, 2014 @ 11:41 am
What’s the opposite of a Luddite? Is there a word for that? Is there a word for people who think science is ALWAYS right, ALWAYS beneficial, ALWAYS “progress”?
We have no trouble creating people. The damned things are everywhere!
June 3rd, 2014 @ 11:53 am
Yes, it’s Sheldon Cooper. And he prefers this method, much to the consternation of Amy Farah Fowler.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 11:53 am
Look at the bright side. Synthetic gametes would do away with the need for immigration amnesty since we could just tailor our passive, dependent voters right in the womb.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 12:10 pm
[…] TOM: Call me old fashioned…. […]
June 3rd, 2014 @ 12:11 pm
http://batshitcrazynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/tumblr_mt6oiwU5Bg1s6xwwoo1_500.gif
Old school!
June 3rd, 2014 @ 12:11 pm
Call Me Old-Fashioned, But … http://t.co/SHwz5qVGy8 #tcot @JVLast @jmattbarber @instapundit
June 3rd, 2014 @ 12:19 pm
The word that comes to mind for the dogmatic faith in “science” as the universal answer to all human inquiry is “scientism.” I’m not sure if there’s a good word for the adherents of “scientism.”
June 3rd, 2014 @ 12:53 pm
.@rsmccain How funny!
http://t.co/bn5q4ubNs2 …
@JVLast @jmattbarber @instapundit
June 3rd, 2014 @ 1:14 pm
RT @rsmccain: Call Me Old-Fashioned, But … http://t.co/SHwz5qVGy8 #tcot @JVLast @jmattbarber @instapundit
June 3rd, 2014 @ 1:18 pm
But p-i-v sex is always rape, and you are now revealed as a rape supporter, and rapist! I denounce you!
June 3rd, 2014 @ 1:24 pm
Consider what the author seems to think is a good thing, the ability to move beyond natural copulation to procreate, has wrought. We have had fifty million unborn children slaughtered in this country since 1973, while, at the same time, couples who cannot procreate normally have been spending tens, and sometimes hundreds, of thousands of dollars to have their “own” children. We have people seeking to adopt unwanted babies from Russia and China and other places.
The obvious, humane solution, would have been to have those couple who want children, but cannot have them, to be able to adopt without so many stupid and expensive restrictions. But I guess that such a simple idea is wrong for our oh-so-sophisticated society.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 1:34 pm
If you have something I want or need, and I have something to trade in return, like money, it’s the job of people like barack to insert themselves between us and extort the exchange from both sides.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 1:35 pm
Cling-ons.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 2:05 pm
Unnatural methods for unnatural people who do unnatural things to each other.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 2:11 pm
“Kissed”… I believe we understand what was really said!
June 3rd, 2014 @ 2:53 pm
Alexis Madrigal is male.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 2:59 pm
And yet somehow conservatives are the repressed prudes.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 3:00 pm
[…] Call Me Old-Fashioned, But … […]
June 3rd, 2014 @ 3:49 pm
That lesbian “throuple” from Massachusetts is ready to embrace these new technologies…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10872361/Three-parent-babies-are-not-unsafe-as-human-trials-planned.html
June 3rd, 2014 @ 4:11 pm
LOL!!!
June 3rd, 2014 @ 4:13 pm
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly86gq2eo01qjl8b7o1_500.gif
Anti Science? Come on, there is chemistry!
June 3rd, 2014 @ 4:14 pm
That’s siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick!
June 3rd, 2014 @ 4:47 pm
RT @LiesDestroy: .@rsmccain How funny!
http://t.co/bn5q4ubNs2 …
@JVLast @jmattbarber @instapundit
June 3rd, 2014 @ 4:52 pm
Those folks just love their eugenics ,don’t they. And, why are they so ashamed of their offspring, or potential offspring. So ashamed that they feel the need to remove nature and all of her vagaries from life.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 4:56 pm
I suspect the one in the middle can do it the old fashioned way (has anyone checked “her” equipment or chromosomes?)
June 3rd, 2014 @ 5:11 pm
Heh. The trnny in the middle probably has his original equipment attached.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 5:17 pm
Stupid liberals seems to fit (if repetitively redundant).
June 3rd, 2014 @ 5:29 pm
Oh, I don’t know: the silver haired lady is hot, hot hot!
June 3rd, 2014 @ 6:16 pm
I always thought the opposite of Luddite was technoweenie.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 6:16 pm
Love is a matter of chemistry, sex is a matter of physics.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 6:18 pm
Grin grin wink wink nudge nudge say no more.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 6:27 pm
Why, yes… Yes it is!
June 3rd, 2014 @ 6:35 pm
Hmmm…
June 3rd, 2014 @ 6:38 pm
I rather fancy the blue-haired one…
June 3rd, 2014 @ 7:50 pm
At the end of the room a loud speaker projected from the wall. The Director walked up to it and pressed a switch.
“… all wear green,” said a soft but very distinct voice, beginning in the middle of a sentence, “and Delta Children wear khaki. Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I’m so glad I’m a Beta.”
There was a pause; then the voice began again.
“Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid to be able …”
The Director pushed back the switch. The voice was silent. Only its thin ghost continued to mutter from beneath the eighty pillows.
–Brave New World, Chapter 2
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:21 pm
Call Me Old-Fashioned, But … http://t.co/KI5GXk0oif
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:28 pm
Actually, none of these items are especially radical (#3 is amped-up natural family planning/fertility awareness). The game-changer would be an artificial womb, and I think were a long ways away from that. But everything I see about the “future of reproduction” tends to remove fathers from the picture.
http://janetheactuary.blogspot.com/2014/06/brave-new-world.html
June 3rd, 2014 @ 8:40 pm
And sometimes engineering but I don’t judge.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 9:16 pm
#4 is extremely radical. They are contemplating the production of “female sperm” and “male eggs”. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_sperm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_egg
This would allow homosexual couples to reproduce, or for that matter, it would allow asexual reproduction.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 9:19 pm
Well, you would, but I’m 61 years old, and the silver-haired lady appears to be much more age appropriate to me.
Which brings me to another point, which will (probably) not win wide acceptance: ladies, when your hair starts turning grey, you don’t have to color it! Men know that you’re getting older, and we really don’t care all that much, given that we’re getting older at the same rate.
June 3rd, 2014 @ 9:35 pm
The silver-haired tabby is “Brynn” and she’s only 34!
(The blue-aired tom is “Doll” and 27 and the tall, dodgy looking lemon in the middle is “Kitten”, 30…)
June 3rd, 2014 @ 10:34 pm
That’s a fair point, but it’s not a game-changer, since lesbian couples seem to be find with sperm donors, and gay men still need a uterus, not just an egg.
June 4th, 2014 @ 6:56 am
Us Engineers agree.