Some thoughts about men's giving birth

There is some thoughts I got when I was reviewing the chapters about men's giving birth.

John Frog was written in the era of Renaissance when the society was based on hierarchy. John Frog was a double-sided person: he was a successful comedian while in his personal life, he conducted sodomy. Sodomy was a sin so severe under the ethical terms of that era that the person who conducted should be sentenced to death. However John frog survived and was released without any investigation. The main reason was that Joh Frog served those people who were in upper classes. This was a clear demonstration about the hierarchy of the society at that time. The ethical code was succumb to class. The play writer took advantage of John Frog's dual characteristics to produce comedies about Men's giving birth, in order to warm audience (at that time people who were able to watch plays were those who had high statuses) up, from which we can see among upper class, such anti-ethnicity behavior was a source of fun.

One thing that I conclude from the phenomenon is that during Renaissance, ethnicity was a method of ruling ordinary people. Those who stayed at the lower classes were strictly ruled according to these codes (sodomy = death penalty), while people in upper class used this theme for fun.


Men's giving birth on the one hand warned men that women had the evil power that could torture them, and on the other hand, it showed that men, though ruled women, felt unsafe because women could give them child from other men. Bearing their own baby could guarantee the identities of the off springs. The inter-ruling built up the barrier between men and women and such confrontation (men overtly oppress women, and women covertly harmed men) existed for so long that women's offense finally turned above-table which in my opinion became the movements of feminisms.