In high school and college, when men leered at me from truck windows, construction sites, and from behind lawnmowers (sorry, as classist as this sounds, it’s where these men generally operate) I was horrified. Stop objectifying my body! Stop looking at my boobs! Oh, but I was an indignant young thing, an autonomous, anti-patriarchy, feminizi woman goddess who screeched and screamed about such injustices while I jogged about the world.
Twenty pounds heavier than usual, more than halfway through this pregnancy, huffing and chugging around the neighborhood at a “brisk” walking pace, these leers are heavenly.
Horrah for the garbage collectors checking me out from their high perches.
Here’s a shout out to the chimney masons smiling at me from their scaffolding.
Thank you, landscaper on lunch break, giving me a cheery hello.
God bless ‘em all.
(Yes. Shaddup. I know that at this point I am more of a rounded pregnant creature rather than a twiggly-everywhere but the boobs and belly pregnant creature AND that it’s mostly curiosity at the sight of someone moving about outside of a car PLUS the current size of my chest. But can I just pretend? )

4 Comments
May 9, 2008 at 3:39 pm
The staring and cat-calling has always really pissed me off too, but it’s nice to know that my perspective might change once I’m carrying a child!!!
May 9, 2008 at 9:11 pm
I totally get it.
I’ve been flipping the finger at the whistlers since I was 16 – and now that I am pregnant, I do kind of miss it in the strangest of ways, secretly hoping it won’t be too long until I get to shoot a man the evil eye again.
BHW
May 11, 2008 at 11:26 am
I’m with you!! I haven’t been leered or whistled at in ages!! But I’ll take it whenever I can get it! And do…on occassion
You’re allowed to believe the leers were whatever youw ant them to be. It IS mother’s day after all *lol*
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