Response to “Your Gamete, Myself”

When I turned to this article and read the “Before You Read” box, I was surprised by my immediate answer to the question posed. I was sure that if I could not have a child, I would want to adopt. When I thought about why I felt this way, I initially believed it was because I would not want my spouse to essentially have a child with someone else. When I thought a little deeper, I found that the reason was even more selfish. I realized that I would not want my husband to be able to biologically linked to our child and have me be left out of the family circle. It would probably make me jealous and resentful. So to be equal, I would want to adopt. After reading the article and learning about other women’s experiences with adoption, egg donation, and infertility, I totally changed my mind. I recognized that if I were unable to conceive, using an egg donation would probably result in a more fulfilling and unconditional love for my child. I would have carried it, delivered it, and nurtured it and it would be a genetic product of the person I love, my husband. It would be as if the child really was my own even though no physical part of me was a part of the child.

Response to "Facebook: Why I Hate It..."

I think that overall, I agree with the author of this essay. I am also not that big a fan of Facebook or MySpace. I have one of each, but I rarely check them. I’m just not that interested in it anymore. I always have more important things to do than update my profile or peruse my friends’ profiles. I think it is sad how addicted our society has become to these technological forms of entertainment. I have heard of someone who is constantly on these websites being called a “MySpace whore” or a “Facebook slut”. It means that they spend a ridiculous amount of time doing nothing on these sites. For me, however, my time is too precious to waste it on a website. I keep my profiles in order to stay in touch with long lost friends. I will admit that these websites are fabulous for finding and contacting people you once knew. I have reacquainted myself with tons of people that I hadn’t spoken to since elementary school. In that way, I like Facebook and MySpace. For anything else it does, I am not interested.