PETE GADGET

"Pregnancy is NOT a death sentence". Since I've made jokes about the matter, I feel compelled to lay my own arguments also. I will start with a defining premise: Everytime a conversation pops on the timeline, I am rudely reminded that arguing on the internet is mostly useless. The internet arms everyone with an ego, even when obvious comprehension mismatch exists. Gaps in knowledge, gaps in intellect, gaps in experience, gaps in comprehension - but same ego level. Arguments are useless. Back to the conversation - again here I come with analogies: "The Sky is NOT black" - This statement is indicating that the sky can be any kind of color but it DEFINITELY is not black. "The Sky is black" - This statement is indicating that, of every kind of color that exists, the sky is DEFINITELY black. -+-+-+-+-+++++++++++++ "Pregnancy is NOT a death sentence" - This statement is indicating that Pregnancy can be lifethreatening, can come with risks, can be complicated but it is not a death sentence. It doesn't in any way reduce the experience of the carrier. "Pregnancy is a death sentence" - This statement is definitive and conclusive. It doesn't highlight the risk, it defines it as a situation where the definitive outcome ALWAYS is death. That is a dangerous narrative, especially when peddled by health professionals - infact, the latter is more disrespectful than the former. Feel free to advocate for better healthcare for women especially in your country & feel free to exercise your rights not to have children but stop perpetuating dangerous health tropes. And while at it, please learn how to apply statistics. If I say: "Stop paying for tech courses. There are no jobs in tech" You will be a fool to tell me about your uncle's brother wife's cousin who got a job last week - because statistically, the job availability has dwindled drastically. If out of every 2000 tech newbies and 10 secure job roles, there are actually no jobs in tech. Other variables constant, a woman is more likely to be pregnant, carry her pregnancy to term and give birth without dying than she is. Some of your mothers gave birth to a dozen. So, instead of peddling pregnancy as a death sentence, advocate for better healthcare in your country. Pregnancy isn't the problem, the politics in your country is. Again, I don't expect this unnecessary epistle to make sense to you if your entire internet existence is to seek new clothings on victimhood. There are enough panderers on the timeline supplying you with that material - I'm not selling what you intend to buy.

I've wanted to make this tweet for a while - from the time Korty EO made that stupid video about Nigerian male nurses/doctors. This new pattern of portraying Nigerian male doctors as predators will backfire - and it will be on the day of someone's emergency.