Mariah Carey: Don't Violate Me, Baby

Mariah Carey thinks that maybe she doesn't want to have kids. Which, fine. No one is obligated to have children, and frankly, I don't know that the world would really be all that much worse off if Mariah didn't procreate. At least the world's supply of diamante binkies and glitter-stamped onesies wouldn't be at risk of decimation. Which, you know, matters to some people.

But it's one thing to say that children aren't really your bag, and another to equate them, as Mariah seems to have done, with some sort of grave violation against one's person.

On the subject of having children and why she feels that she isn't - and may never be - ready, she said this:

“I never wanted to feel violated and I know that’s a kind of weird thing to say, but that’s how I am.”

Now, granted, it's not clear in the interview from whence this soundbite came whether she regards children themselves as violations against one's person, or sees childbirth as some kind of personal violation, or thinks that all children are somehow at risk of violation, but my read of it is that she perceives motherhood as somehow involving personal violation.

Which, fine, maybe, if you count having your hoo-ha torn open and your nipples chewed off as violations of one person, but I really prefer - for the sake of my own sanity - to not view those things in that way. And in any case, is having one's hoo-ha torn open any more of a violation than being forced to live in a world where movies like Glitter get made? Very probably not.

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[Laura]

I agree that Mariah should never had children and if she is sane enough to admit that for whatever reason she chooses than she is better off than many of the other parents who shouldn't have ever reproduced and did anyway.