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Sunday, February 18, 2007



Surrogacy an Option for Chernovetsky’s Businesslike Deputy

Irena Kilchytska, Kyiv’s vivacious 38-year-old Deputy Mayor and former Pravex Bank Vice President, has more revelations. Aside from professing Christianity while expecting her firstborn by a boyfriend of unknown identity, what more could she impress us with? In an interview with Ukrainian daily Fakty, Kilchytska elaborated on her family planning, unveiling a vision that may strike traditional believers as a bit unorthodox.

So here are some memorable quotes from a self-made lady who takes pains to “project an image of success at all times” (American Beauty) and exudes the sort of acrid affluenza that Paris Hilton can only dream about.

Слава Богу, ни в каком отдыхе и реабилитации, как беременная женщина, я весь этот срок не нуждалась. Но не уверена, что так же будет с последующими моими детьми, которых я планирую иметь. Не исключаю, что следующего моего ребенка доверю вынашивать суррогатной матери.

Но полет в космос, клонирование и прочие достижения прогресса тоже поначалу казались чем-то страшным и непонятным. Сегодня это уже явь. Я не пророк, но думаю, лет через десять к суррогатному материнству женщины будут прибегать не только в том случае, когда сами не могут выносить детей. Многие деловые занятые женщины, которые пробиваются в жизни сами, а не сидят на шее у мужчины, захотят иметь собственного ребенка, не отвлекаясь на его рождение. И будут пользоваться услугами суррогатных матерей.

Thank God, I’ve experienced no need for rest and rehabilitative therapy throughout my pregnancy term. But I’m not sure that this will be the case with the babies I’m going to have next. I wouldn’t discount the possibility that my next child will be borne by a surrogate mother.

But space travel, cloning, and other advances in the progress of humankind, too, initially came as something terrific and incomprehensible. Now it’s history. I’m not a prophet, but I believe that ten years from now women will be opting for surrogate motherhood not just when they can’t bear children physically. Many time-strapped business women who are out there making it on their own and are not dependent on their partners will want to have a baby without diverting much time to its birth. And they will use the services of surrogate mothers.

Careful as we should be not to step on gender issues and the progress of humankind, let’s pause to note that space travel must have supplied the theme for Kilchytska’s boss, Mayor Chernovetsky (aka Lyonya Kosmos, or Leo the Loony). Quite a few Kyivites would spend their last hryvnya to buy him a one way-ticket to the Moon.

And what about all those Buck$treet Boys squatting in the City Hall? (Two of Chernovetsky’s male deputies are former Pravex Bank employees in their twenties.) This may sound like player haterism of the purest kind, but we expect them to resort to surrogate fatherhood as well?

Of course, in a depopulating nation children are more than welcome, regardless of the biological know-how. But the thought of some children being born “more equal” than others becomes unbearable. A surrogate democracy is not an option.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you pushed a little too hard.

Surrogate parenthood for women is a controversial issue and it is intertwined somewhat with elitism, but we do want capable women to be able to serve in leadership positions and the time spent being pregnant does impede that somewhat.

I'd focus more on the acts of Chernoco.

dlw

Anonymous said...

on 2nd thought, I believe in Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals", that he does say that it is good to focus on individuals and to employ ridicule.

So I guess if these remarks would show the further alienation between Chernoco and Kyiv, then go for it...

dlw

Anonymous said...

Better excerpt...
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a2c81004877.htm

dlw

Taras said...

Pushed a little too hard:)? I wish I did. In fact, I only tried to give my audience a little taste of how hard it is to have a bunch of materialistic exhibitionists talk and play God to us.

Believe it or not, she’s an act of Chernoco, and she's as capable as you can imagine. This is not the first story out there. It would take me weekends to run the whole gamut of background information, a project that I believe would both overtax my translation stamina and the audience’s interest in the subject.

To pass objective judgment on what’s going on here, one has to read these people. One has to monitor and analyze their every move and word. Of course, this would require a set of cultural and linguistic lenses that I just can’t equip my audience with.

The story I picked up has absolutely nothing to do with gender. It’s all about greed.

Man or woman, some nouveau riche Ukrainians are so intoxicated with power they don’t want to miss a single day of it. Unless you’re one of us, you will never appreciate the extent of how silly our lustful leaders can knock themselves without even noticing it.

So don’t even think about it:) Be thankful to God you’re in a different boat. Be thankful you’re not one of us poor creatures, with a GDP per capita of about $8K (PPP:(

I wish it were all demonization on my part. And I certainly wish Chernoco were a bad dream. I’m having enough fun with Yanuco:)))

Taras said...

Wow! That's quite a treasure trove of useful tips;)I'd say they make perfect sense:)

Still, I guess I'm not much of a radical. I'm more of a liberal. I'm one of those people who'd love to get the oligarchy off this country's back. I'm for a Ukraine where everyone can be what they want to be, as long as no one gets hurt:)

DLW said...

I realized in the 2nd post that I had misspoke in the first.

I am aware of how so many Ukrainians are upset about how a relatively few are getting rich while they remain poor. My pastor friend told me about how his congregation asks him about this and I replied that we could point to Luke 16:19-23.

I think that that is an import complement for the political activism tools of Alinsky. Ultimately, one of the big diffs between US and many other countries is that we developed traditions where our rich people give money away to charity. I think we shamed them into this.

The same thing needs to be done in Ukraine, along with reforms that curtail the ability of politicians to profit from their positions. Laws are never as effective if the people they are supposed to affect do not accept their basic rightness and are more likely to comply even when they could get away with breaking them.

dlw

Taras said...

It's OK:) Ukraine can puzzle even Ukrainians. That’s the mental adware the Communists put in our brains, and one the oligarchs have thrived on. With my English, I figured I could help the West sort through the mess. Well, I’m trying to.

As the younger generation takes over and the aging oligarchs realize they can’t take it past the grave, some of them, I hope, will rediscover the Ten Commandments and Matthew 19:24.

But for now, I’m bookmarking Alinsky's commandments as well;)

Anonymous said...

Well, I wouldn't wait for them to get old.

http://foreignnotes.blogspot.com/2007/02/first-crisis-for-anti-crisisites.html

Point out how good things happen when politicos are more selfless and political-decisionmaking is transparent and civil.

Shake things up. Call on that Sunday Adelaja dude to remind Cherno about the example of Zacchaeus the Publican. Jesus may have eaten with money-grubbing tax-collectors and sinners, but he also pricked their hearts not to steal and to return the money taken.

dlw

Taras said...

Who says we’re waiting?:) We can’t wait till we fill the streets and have Chernoco land on its ass. We can’t wait till we see it hobble back to its core competency, the banking business. We Kyivites have a lesson to teach this spring semester.

As a student and admirer of African American culture, I had no quarrel with Sunday Adelaja until reports emerged in the media, portraying him as a man of questionable reputation and surprising political connections. One could also see how Cherno, once elected, distanced himself from the Embassy of God.

Interestingly enough, Adelaja’s site, http://www.pastorsunday.com, has only two versions, English and Russian, but no Ukrainian version, which kind of makes me feel uncomfortable. Hey, isn’t Kyiv the capital of U-K-R-A-I-N-E? To be frank, I feel like an N-word in my own land. Does Mr. Adelaja realize that this noninclusive linguistic menu pulls on the heartstrings of a colonial legacy that rivals that of his native Nigeria?

I also wonder what this means:

“Thousands of Mafia members have come to the Lord through the activities of the Embassy of God.”

http://www.pastorsunday.com/about.php

Does it mean they’ve come to prison as well? I believe one can come to the Lord through crime, but not the other way around. One cannot come to crime through the Lord.

Anonymous said...

TR:Who says we’re waiting?:) We can’t wait till we fill the streets and have Chernoco land on its ass. We can’t wait till we see it hobble back to its core competency, the banking business. We Kyivites have a lesson to teach this spring semester.

dlw: It's one thing to politically upend your opponents, it's another to appeal to them to change their behavior. I wd argue that I think the two must be mixed for a healthy democracy to ensue.

TR:As a student and admirer of African American culture, I had no quarrel with Sunday Adelaja until reports emerged in the media, portraying him as a man of questionable reputation and surprising political connections.

dlw: I don't trust media attacks, but I don't care for (very large) churches to be centered around one charismatic leader as well. Power tends to corrupt everyone.

TR:One could also see how Cherno, once elected, distanced himself from the Embassy of God.

dlw:What do you expect from politicians?

Interestingly enough, Adelaja’s site, http://www.pastorsunday.com, has only two versions, English and Russian, but no Ukrainian version, which kind of makes me feel uncomfortable. Hey, isn’t Kyiv the capital of U-K-R-A-I-N-E? To be frank, I feel like an N-word in my own land. Does Mr. Adelaja realize that this noninclusive linguistic menu pulls on the heartstrings of a colonial legacy that rivals that of his native Nigeria?

dlw: I'd write a complaint for them. Perhaps, it's because Adelaja is better at Russian than Ukrainian? As an outsider who was trained under the communist system, this would be understandable.

TR:I also wonder what this means:

“Thousands of Mafia members have come to the Lord through the activities of the Embassy of God.”

http://www.pastorsunday.com/about.php

dlw: It's worth looking into. Did they stop being mafia members after this? Or are they bifurcating their lives? Ministry to gang members is a way to change things. There was a famous book written in the seventies titled "the Cross and the Switchblade".

TR:Does it mean they’ve come to prison as well? I believe one can come to the Lord through crime, but not the other way around. One cannot come to crime through the Lord.

dlw: Earthly justice is always going to be flawed that is part of why changing the way people see things is critical for long-term reforms. Hopefully, the mafia-members left their employment after being "saved". If Adelaja's church did not press for this, that would be wrong.

dlw

Taras said...

I too hope that Adelaja’s site refers to conversion along the lines of “The Cross and the Switchblade.” A Ukrainian version of his Web ministry would be very much appreciated. It’s always been a pleasure to be addressed in Ukrainian by good-natured American Mormon missionaries roaming the streets of Kyiv:)

As I see it, Lutsenko’s March on Kyiv will lay down the marker for the spring campaign. Further action involves a ruling by the Constitutional Court that would invalidate the legitimacy of the Yanukovych Cabinet. In Kyiv, we need a cease-and-desist order that would end Cherno’s stonewalling of the petitioning groups. This chain of events makes up the “open Sesame” incantation that would open the gates of repeat elections:)

Anonymous said...

Watch out for those mormons, they'll tell you you can't drink alcohol or caffeine...

I hope Lutsenko's march works.

As an outsider, it's not really my business but I believe that new elections are in order.

cheers,
dlw

Taras said...

Mormons never encroached on my drinking habits, since I’m not much of a drinker anyway:)

And of course, you’re not the only one who believes that new elections need to be held to clean things up in this country:)