Mother Nature is a personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it, in the form of the mother. 1)
We have been taught to address nature as the ‘Mother Earth’. In this symbol, nature is allegorised as a powerful maternal force, the womb of all human production that ‘takes care’ of our needs and necessities from time and again.
The idea is a comforting analogy except it has a lining of gendered and sexist language that is reinforced in the lives of women, expecting them to possess the ‘same nature’ as the nature of Mother earth.
The entire saviour complex that a man is supposed to protect a woman is also reflected here. 2)
This is a judgmental recipe how the nature has become a mother of human.
1. Huge push, push, push, keep pushing darling, you’re doing good. Little more, little more! Well done……
2. Take a big breath, and huge push! Fantastic baby! Keep pushing, big huge push! I can see your baby’s head…! Keep pushing, one more time darling! Great, again!
3. His head is coming! Leave your hands relaxed! Big breath in! And a huge push down! Push with pressure! Push it more! More than that! Keep pushing! Push, push! Yeah, you’re baby is coming out! Come on, come on!