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How to illustrate a story about falling sperm counts

1 Comment Posted by on December 6, 2012

So how should one illustrate a story about falling sperm counts?

Headless pregnant woman

Headless pregnant woman

With a headless pregnant woman, of course!

Well done, New Zealand Herald. Well done.

Tick the tropes: men’s illness = women’s problem, women as bearers of fetuses, women responsible for the human race, women reduced to a state of pregnancy, women reduced to body parts. Any more?

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One Response to How to illustrate a story about falling sperm counts

  1. Pingback: How to illustrate a story about falling sperm counts « A Bee of a Certain Age

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