Rapture, Rapture, Rapture

[brigid]

12-18-2022

This is the last Sunday before Christmas, with all the room for a large Sunday strip full of detail and extra story. This Sunday strip could feature the two small children of indeterminate age and their preparation for Santa's visit. Maybe they're decorating the tree with their parents, or making gingerbread houses, or making snow men, or visiting their grandmother or great grandmother. Maybe they're wrapping gifts in a hilariously inept way, or learning Christmas carols.

Oh wait, never mind, instead of the actual children who exist in the strip we get a flashback of Young Edda and Young Amos Who Looks Like A Turtle asking Edda's mom what "having a baby" is like.

Now, bear in mind that Juliette had a baby in an attempt to spackle her marriage back together. It delayed the inevitable but ultimately failed, at least in relation to her marriage. She was the ultimate winner in that she got Edda, though. It's a gambit that paid off in the long run. Given her history, her motivation, she no doubt has a lot to say about choosing to have a baby. She could go into detail here, but... no. It's a string of generalities that might work in a stand up routine but it's not quite appropriate for kids, nor does it answer the question.

She fires off a list of potential experiences, which exist of:
Logistics
Decision making
Making the decision
Having sex
Having sex
Having a lot of sex
Getting a positive pregnancy test
Morning sickness
More morning sickness
Looking good
Having sex
Getting large
Experiencing all of this alone while your partner has sex and then falls asleep
Giving birth
Holding your baby

Edda, of course, wants to know about the "rapture" (having sex) park, which Juliette mentions multiple times but then refuses to discuss.

Amos wants to know about the size thing, harkening back to his childhood drawing of a pregnant Edda where she looks like she's carrying a litter.

He has an entire set of subfolders on his computer about inflationism.

Once again, McEldowney would rather dwell on hypothetical babies than the actual children that he's already created, that exist in his comic. He'd rather depict his adult children as small children endlessly discussing having children than depict the small children he's written for his strip.

This is VERY MUCH a pro-forced-birth point of view. Obsession over babies that don't exist, while ignoring children that already exist and need caring for.