We live in a day and time where anything is possible and if you believe it you can achieve it. In April of 2008, a man from Hawaii named Thomas Beatie came out to the public as the first pregnant man. Although this shocked the world for months and was difficult for many people to accept and understand, we can look back at documents from the past that show the idea has actually been conceived before. In 1606, a news pamphlet titled “Portrait of a Monster” came out alleging that a man gave birth to a devil baby after taking a potion from a witch. Although the Thomas Beatie saga and “Portrait of a Monster” were 400 years apart, history shows us that people have reacted to a similar situation in similar ways.
Upon coming out with his story, Thomas …show more content…
On Oprah’s special, one strategy she constantly used was asking very personal questions and cutting the answers off when she heard what she wanted. She asked many questions in which she knew the answers would shock her audience and cut the cameras to their faces every chance possible to show their astonished faces, attempting to make Thomas look like some kind of freak. In the interview, Oprah brought up how the transgender community wanted Thomas to hide his story and not go public explaining that the world isn’t ready for this yet and I believe they were correct. As past evidence shows, in the “Portrait of a Monster” the witch who impregnated the man paid the consequence by being burned alive because what she did was considered evil. The witch and her potion in this story symbolize the procedure that Thomas Beatie went through to impregnate him. The reactions of the man giving birth to the demon child were extremely negative and led them to killing the woman in charge of it. Today, we live in an amazing time period where society has learned to accept the fact that one can freely change his or her gender, however people’s views on a male pregnancy have persistently been rejected. This is consistent with the reactions of even the closest members in his family such as his brother and father who oppose the idea of Thomas’s …show more content…
There is definitely a religious aspect that comes into this equation because as many as 9 doctors turned down Thomas Beatie because they felt the procedure was a sin and went against their religion. The act of impregnating the man was considered sinful to the people of 1606 and we can see that in 400 years most people still feel the same way. It is incorporated into our human nature to believe that a woman is to carry a baby but Thomas Beatie has taught us otherwise. Although the Thomas Beatie saga and “Portrait of a Monster” were 400 years apart, history shows us that people react to a similar situation in similar
Upon coming out with his story, Thomas …show more content…
On Oprah’s special, one strategy she constantly used was asking very personal questions and cutting the answers off when she heard what she wanted. She asked many questions in which she knew the answers would shock her audience and cut the cameras to their faces every chance possible to show their astonished faces, attempting to make Thomas look like some kind of freak. In the interview, Oprah brought up how the transgender community wanted Thomas to hide his story and not go public explaining that the world isn’t ready for this yet and I believe they were correct. As past evidence shows, in the “Portrait of a Monster” the witch who impregnated the man paid the consequence by being burned alive because what she did was considered evil. The witch and her potion in this story symbolize the procedure that Thomas Beatie went through to impregnate him. The reactions of the man giving birth to the demon child were extremely negative and led them to killing the woman in charge of it. Today, we live in an amazing time period where society has learned to accept the fact that one can freely change his or her gender, however people’s views on a male pregnancy have persistently been rejected. This is consistent with the reactions of even the closest members in his family such as his brother and father who oppose the idea of Thomas’s …show more content…
There is definitely a religious aspect that comes into this equation because as many as 9 doctors turned down Thomas Beatie because they felt the procedure was a sin and went against their religion. The act of impregnating the man was considered sinful to the people of 1606 and we can see that in 400 years most people still feel the same way. It is incorporated into our human nature to believe that a woman is to carry a baby but Thomas Beatie has taught us otherwise. Although the Thomas Beatie saga and “Portrait of a Monster” were 400 years apart, history shows us that people react to a similar situation in similar