Astonishing Logic
The New York Times ran an article today on the authors of a new book, “Three Wishes: A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood.” The book consists of the joint memoirs of three women, at ages when they were on the brink of losing their fertility, who, intending to become artificially inseminated, passed a vile of sperm between them. Before any of them used it, they each got knocked up and had babies with guys the “old-fashioned way.”
The Times quotes one of the women, Carey Goldberg, stating, “Every time we told someone our story, they said you have to write it down.” I don’t think I’m going out on a limb here by stating that its safe to assume that most if not all of the “[e]very time … someone[s]” were their girl friends.
Of course, its perfectly natural that a woman who has gone to the lengths of buying sperm would consider the expense, hard work, and social impact that having a child on her own would entail, and decide to get less hypergamous on the eve of making that leap. Women like Lori Gottlieb have been spreading the word – after the fact, of course – about their own tales of woe trying to be a responsible mother on their own. In fact, Gottlieb has turned her belated revelation into a career. The contempt these women – who had planned to use sperm from a guy 6’5″ tall - have for the saps who became the fathers of their children is palpable in the article. All three “bristle[d and fidgeted] at the suggestion that theirs is a Cinderella story times three, with men coming to their rescue.” Goldberg added, “my happy ending began when I became a mother.”
Pamela Ferdinand: "Thanks for the sperm. Now keep away from me and my, uh, er, our daughter, or I'll hit you up for court-ordered child support."
There’s nothing – let alone “astonishingly” lucky – that a lot of women would settle rather than purposely confront motherhood on their own. It would seem like pure logic.
Then again, since when are more than the most minute slice of womanhood logical?! The coincidence that two women (the third woman ended up with the married guy who was cheating with her) who were connected by a mutual friend all came to the same logical conclusion about something is truly astonishing!
Wow! The astonishing nature of the coincidence which forms the core of this book cannot possibly be understated.
Then again, it could just be that the three women aren’t being candid about their opportunism. Just sayin’.
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