Oprah Winfrey Is Starting To Really Annoy Me

When I saw the article title, "Pregnant Man Tells Oprah: It's A Miracle", I thought it was one of those supermarket tabloid stories.  Since I had made my transactions for my fantasy baseball team for the night, I clicked the link to see how Oprah's name got caught up in this story. To be honest, I do not watch Oprah because she annoys me. Don't get me wrong, I respect her and all that she has accomplished.  I'm just not an Oprah fan. 

Now I am really annoyed because she allowed this "miracle" to be legitimized on her television show.  This is not a pregnant man.  This is a woman who decided she wanted to be a man, but kept her reproductive system intact because he/she wanted to have a child some day.  Where's the miracle?  Someone is going to have to explain this one to me. Never mind - I'm sure my wife will try and make me understand the "miracle" after she reads this posting.

A woman was injected with semen and she got pregnant.  I don't find that miraculous at all. I call it a successful injection.  It's a miracle if he/she was living alone in a studio apartment and woke up one morning and discovered that he/she were pregnant without having a relationship of any kind with any person.  Now that's a miracle.

I am a firm believer in the miracle of child birth.  After watching my wife deal with three pregnancies, I have no choice but to be a true believer.  The whole nine month process and the growth of the fetus still blows me away.  Therefore, I understand the excitement of the father/mother to be, but there is no need to go on a national media tour calling it a miracle. 

"The couple said they decided to go public with the pregnancy because they wanted to control the way the news got out. "We're just going to have the baby now," Nancy said. "If we have to, we'll go hide."

Who goes on Oprah's show and decides to hide later?  Would this really have been a big deal to the rest of the country?  The couple lives in Bend, Oregon.  I would have respected them more if they just said they wanted some publicity on a popular talk show that would produce some positive buzz about their future business ventures.

"Beatie is working on a book about his childhood, his mother's suicide and his life growing in Hawaii where, as a girl, he was a teen beauty pageant contestant and earned a martial arts black belt."

See - this experience is not a miracle at all.  This is a planned pregnancy.  I guarantee that when this book is completed, it will be also be publicized on Oprah's show.  She probably is working on securing the movie rights to the story. Despite the circus nature of it all, I hope that the couple has a successful pregnancy that results in a healthy child.  I do know one thing - that kid is going to have some interesting stories to tell when he or she gets older.