No maternal instinct (was: Sexism, division of labor

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "A. Vulgarweed" <fluxed at e...> wrote:

> See, I was born without the "maternal instinct" gene. Never felt
> it as a child (never had or wanted any baby or child dolls), have 
> never felt it since, and at 33, I think if it was ever going to
> kick in, it would have started by now. 

Me too! (And I'm 44 and in menopause, altho' my friends tell me it's 
too early, so it had better not kick in now.) My brother was born 
three days before my 2nd birthday. My mother told me (I don't 
remember this myself) that she gave me a fancy wets-itself-and-cries 
baby doll so I wouldn't be jealous of my new sibling, but I refused 
to play with it and kept throwing it aside. I played only with my 
teddy bear (whom I don't remember) and my teddy tigers (whom I 
remember as having lost their eyes from too much play and being 
generally ragged but greatly beloved).