July 31, 2014

"I don't need a dude. I mean, Neil and David, their twins are beautiful. It's 2014!"

"We are living in the future; we don't need anything. I don't think I'll have to, but we'll see. I'm not anti-men. I love men. But there is an option if someone doesn't present himself."

Katy Perry feels wonderful.

ADDED: I'd have felt wonderful too, if anyone had noticed my Talking Heads allusion. I'd be tipping over backwards.

39 comments:

The Godfather said...

Fish. Barrel. No challenge. No thanks.

MayBee said...

This always drives me crazy. At what time in history did people at the time consider themselves to be living in anything but the most modern of times?

"Come on, it's 1014!," said some 30 year old singer somewhere, before she realized she was just living in 2014's olden times.

David said...

I bet she does.

Left Bank of the Charles said...

I would imagine that after reading this a lot of men are going to present themselves. Well, maybe not men, but certainly dudes.

bleh said...

I don't quite understand what her point is. What does a gay couple raising a child together have to do with whether she decides to raise a child on her own? Is she saying that the gay couple will agree to act as a surrogate "man" in her life and "father" for her child?

It's very unclear. Is she just saying that nontraditional families can be successful, as demonstrated by the gay couple, and therefore whatever arrangement she chooses has to be presumed successful?

Anonymous said...

It's 2014 and everything's different. But 2032 will be just the same.

Anonymous said...

She may not need a "dude," but kids are better off with two partnered parents than a single mom (or dad) -- even a rich one.

n.n said...

2014 is the year of test tube babies. While several million more are flushed down the toilet or abandoned. Oh, well. This is what pseudo-normative men and women want.

Bob Ellison said...

She's pretty.

CatherineM said...

You know what I say? God bless. Good luck to you!

n.n said...

Rent-a-womb for Neil or David. Rent-a-sperm donor for Katy. So progressive.

Revenant said...

I like Chris Rock's comment on how "you don't need a man" to have a baby: you can drive a car with your feet if you want to, that doesn't make it a good fuckin' idea.

mccullough said...

Hopefully she'll be able to clone herself someday in the future.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

"present himself"?

And one wonders why she's single.

Fritz said...

Nothing is a step up from Russel Brand.

Bill, Republic of Texas said...

Left Bank of the Charles said...
I would imagine that after reading this a lot of men are going to present themselves. Well, maybe not men, but certainly dudes.

7/31/14, 5:27 PM

This dude would present himself repeatedly!

fivewheels said...

She's almost certainly right. She doesn't need a dude. Not these days.

The kid might, though. If that's any kind of a consideration.

Bobber Fleck said...

Who is Katy Perry and why do I care?

Oops, I just revealed my age and political leanings.

Browndog said...

"I don't need to post comments. I mean, Crack's and Freeman Hunt's are beautiful. I have a blog, welcome comments, but only I read them! They're moderated! It's 2014!"

Smilin' Jack said...

""I don't need a dude. I mean, Neil and David, their twins are beautiful. It's 2014!...We are living in the future; we don't need anything. I don't think I'll have to, but we'll see. I'm not anti-men. I love men. But there is an option if someone doesn't present himself""

If the someone who presents himself isn't a super-fucking-genius, her kids are going to be riding the short bus.

Anonymous said...

She is right. She doesn't need a dude.

Now her children on the other hand....

How sad what we've done to ourselves. Now we think its just fine depriving children, on purpose. of a mother or a father. Terrible.

eddie willers said...

Hopefully she'll be able to clone herself someday in the future.

One per customer.

Guaranteed not to speak.

jr565 said...

neil and David's twins? How did they get those? Was one the baby daddy or where they adopted.
Like it or not, we still need a man and a woman to have a baby.

jr565 said...

Katy Perry has to worry more about her biological clock than finding a man. If she wants a baby she has a window, is all I'm saying.

Anonymous said...

@maybee.

Me. I felt as a kid I was living in archaic times. The TOYS!! They didn't DO anything. The most "electronic" were all boys' toys leading my mother to worry and try to force baby dolls on me when all I wanted was something that responded in the real world outside my imagination. Even the early computers In jus and hs I felt were archaic and obscenely rudimentary.

What I wanted, of course, was a fully functional ipad,

I still feel I'm living in archaic times as far as political / societal structures, but then you can't build a state of the art spy plane out of wood and lead, and human beings are still the raw material we have to work with.

Renee said...

"If you're African American, there's about a one-in-two chance you grew up without a father in your house. If you're Latino, you have about a one-in-four chance. We've become numb to the statistics." -- President Barack Obama

So has Katy Perry

n.n said...

jr565:

Rent-a-womb. It's 2014.

Incidentally, Katy can rent-a-womb, too. It's tres chic in 2014.

To be fair to Neil and David, and Katy, too, the normalization of rent-a-womb and donor happened with technological progress long ago.

Anyway, the biological and social experiments must continue.

The Crack Emcee said...

"Katy Perry feels wonderful."

And I care why again?

rastajenk said...

My takeaway is that Rolling Stone is more useless and irrelevant than I could have ever imagined. I was only slightly aware that it even existed any more, but never thought it had become completely lightweight.

Ann Althouse said...

""Katy Perry feels wonderful." And I care why again?"

Because you, of all readers, had a shot at catching my Talking Heads allusion.

Biff said...

I only buy Rolling Stone for the pictures.

holdfast said...

"Me. I felt as a kid I was living in archaic times. The TOYS!! They didn't DO anything. The most "electronic" were all boys' toys leading my mother to worry and try to force baby dolls on me when all I wanted was something that responded in the real world outside my imagination. Even the early computers In jus and hs I felt were archaic and obscenely rudimentary."

I think we all felt that way - but there were some very smart kids in our generation, or maybe a little older, who grew up and actually built those toys. The iPad, and the X-Box and all these other fantastic toys that I can still enjoy as an adult and share with my kids. Of course, my kids probably think they're lame because there's no direct neural interface or something. But no worries, because somewhere there are really smart kids who are working on that too.

When I was a kid I also really thought there should be Star Wars Lego, and now there is. And my sons and I are going to spend part of this weekend building some. It doesn't get better than that.

Michael McNeil said...

Hopefully she'll be able to clone herself someday in the future.

Actually, quietly and without (much) fanfare, in the last year human cloning has been achieved.

Michael McNeil said...

Katy Perry has to worry more about her biological clock than finding a man.

Another long-standing biological fact that is in the process of quickly becoming inoperative. In the last couple of years stem cells have been discovered that can grow into wholly new (and young!) eggs.

Michael McNeil said...

Like it or not, we still need a man and a woman to have a baby.

Except that the same stem cell technologies that soon will make it possible for a woman to make fresh, new eggs for herself, may well also allow men to make eggs (that are genetically thers!) and women sperm (ditto).

Anonymous said...

"may well also allow men to make eggs"

Or may not.

Static Ping said...

"We are living in the future." Ah, I get it.

First time I have ever heard that song. Good tune. However, when I think of "Katy Perry" and "Talking Heads" in the same sentence that does not involve a "not" or an "unlike", the song that comes to mind is this one.

And when I think of "living in the future" the song that comes to mind is this one.

RonF said...

She doesn't need a dude, eh? So, it's all about her, not what her child might need. Typical.

Michael McNeil said...

"may well also allow men to make eggs"

Or may not.


I was going to write back at the time this thread was active and say something like — “‘Or may not’ indeed, but how are you going to bet?” — but I did not then make that additional point. Now we see that it only took a half of year for that seemingly incredible feat to be accomplished. Whether we like it or not, we live in a science fiction world.