"Today Show" weighs in on male biological clock issue

The Today Show's Dr. Nancy Snyderman did a piece Tuesday on the issue of the male biological clock, making the comparison that if a woman's biological clock is like Big Ben, then a male's clock is like a pocketwatch ticking away less noticed.

I was impressed that the devoted so much time to the issue, a total of about four minutes. (The video actually runs about five minutes, but some of it is unrelated talk about Regis' bypass surgery.) At the same time, I thought the piece had an odd feel to it. As I have noted here earlier, some people have argued that the male biological clock concept has been surpressed for political reasons. I have opined on these cyberpages that it has possibly been under-reported because so few men read preganancy/parenting publications. But as it has become more and more a mainstream story (can you get more mainstream than the Today Show?) I'm starting to see a repeated theme in the stories - a lot of them have a kind of bemused comeuppance tone to them. It's not like this is a boy-girl "Mad About You" storyline here - these are serious issues that women and men need to consider together as they get older but still want children. I mean, do we really need the David Bowie/Queen song "Under Pressure" overdubbed during the interview of the guy talking about his decision to wait?

anyway, here's the link (See under "Tuesday's video." if this gets outdated, I was also able to find it by searching for "biological clock" under the show's video search page): http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/12065856/