With his personal essay about how unfair it would be for him to judge his wife's postpartum body, Brett Ortler stands up for the mother of his two children and what women go through to bring a child into the world. In an attempt to put it into perspective for guys who think that just because they are married to a woman, what her body looks like automatically is his business to comment on, Brett wrote:
Think about this way: if one of your beer-league softball buddies is laid up from work for months, gains a lot of weight in the process, and then has to undergo a major abdominal surgery, I can guarantee you'd never find yourself wondering aloud about his abs, scars, or less-perky pecs. That's because you'd be too busy high-fiving him and saying, "Dude, you lived!" The only difference between that scenario and a pregnancy is, assuming all went well, your partner not only survived but also miraculously produced a human.
