The UCC Pregnancy Contradiction

What does this say about how women perceive modern pregnancy, if anything?

Ted Bauer
3 min readJul 7, 2024

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I used to work at this church in Fort Worth called UCC. If you follow college football, it’s right next to TCU, who does well in that sport periodically. I lasted about 97 days at this job. It was a mix of “job didn’t need to exist” + “supervisor didn’t like me” + “the church was undergoing renovations and they got expensive, so some positions had to be cut back.” I liked the job in pockets, but ultimately I was not a good fit there.

So, when I worked there, the church had a day school that was mostly the domain of rich moms, i.e. SAHM types, i.e. you might call them “trad-wives.” Well, said school was run by a woman — not of this ilk, because she had a job, but close to this ilk — named Rebecca. In those 97 days I mentioned above, Rebecca spoke me to all of zero times, but sent me three emails with a red exclamation point, if you want to get a sense of her personality.

Around January of ’24, based on the construction I mentioned above, there was a chance…

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Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.