you know what I JUST GOT

all those ‘80s-’90s jokes or scenes about your wife trying to conceive so she’d track her cycle and then take you on her back with her cervix tipped up

so on the surface it was about how she was being a bitchy cunt that even the idea of fucking her bent over and cumming in her was a chore

BUT FURTHER it was about how the last attempt at professional women had failed because they weren’t proper fuck-mothers

(COMPARE BABY BOOM 1987 OR FROZEN ASSETS 1992 FOR THE REDEMPTION ARC)

this was before we got fertility drugs good, for a while there the started-too-late tried adopting, I remember one Upper West Side ‘80s memoir essay where he was the only non-Vietnamese in his year of bar mitzvahs

(update: haha already made this post years ago)