Hey Glee!, Women Aren't Incubators*

*Title totally inspired by s.e. smith's recent piece in xoJane because it addresses the same problem, different perpetrator.

I love Glee! I do. I know the quality is uneven at best and it's not for everyone. But I still insist that the reason my husband doesn't like it is because he's a soulless husk.

Last night's episode, "The Spanish Teacher" with super hot guest star Rocky Martin was one of those so-so episodes. Though how thrilled must Naya Rivera have been to do a duet with Ricky freaking Martin?!

And NeNe Leakes has been doing a great job as a synchronized swimming coach who wears her Olympic bronze medal all the time and is after Sue Sylvester's job. Last night, the show had a lot of fun at Sue's expense thanks to never-gonna-work plan to get pregnant using eggs she froze in the 70s (and is storing in a supermarket meat freezer) and hormone shots she got from the internet. NeNe's character (whose name I can't be bothered to learn) had what the writer's must've thought was a great rant, right in Sue's face, telling her that because she's menopausal and unlikely to get pregnant that she's "done as a woman."

Seriously, writers of Glee!? Seriously? As I recently shared on my personal blog, I'm infertile. (Always knew it was a possibility, we're adopting an older child from the foster system, no biggie.) But does that mean that I'm done as a woman? That I was never a woman? Seriously?

People really need to say things in their head to see how they sound before they say them out loud. Or write them down and make an actress say them several times throughout rehearsal and filming.

Yes, that whole growing a human being inside your body is a pretty impressive trick. Our bodies do a lot of cool things--digestion, blood clotting, developing muscle as a response to exercise so that some people can become triatheletes (not ME, but some people).

Giving birth is awesome (in all definitions of the word), but there's a lot more to being a mother than giving birth and a lot more to being a woman than being a mother.

And though I really can't picture Sue Sylvester with an infant, I'd love to see her adopting an older child. I'm not going to make choices for other people, even fictional ones, but I think that would be a good choice for her.