Mariah Carey: Don't Violate Me, Baby

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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27 MamaPop Published 4/22/08   Message Add to Friends