Also, regarding MPreg, I seriously want to see a *good* take on it.
I don't care if you make hand-wavey explanations about the actual science or magic, but at least make the reactions to it believable. Like, me? I'd also be looking funny at my neighbour if he said *he* was pregnant, by his boyfriend or otherwise. And if I were a guy who'd gotten pregnant? I'd be freaking the hell out because this is NOT POSSIBLE, I DON'T HAVE OVARIES *OR* A FUCKING UTERUS.
I think that MPreg would severely fuck up most gay relationships. I mean, even if both guys were receptive to the idea of a kid once they get their heads around the fact that they have one a-baking... A pregnancy, and later the baby itself when it pops, is a big strain on a relationship and it's not one they went into the relationship prepared for the possiblity. I mean, most M-F couples are aware that there is a *possiblity* of pregnancy no matter what form(s) of birth control they use. M-M couples? Not so much. It's gonna put some wear and tear and Papa and Daddy's Pure, Gay Love, at least, even if they do get through it. Which, dude, I'm betting a lot of couples wouldn't.
Also, I tend to get the feeling that a lot of MPreg is both misogynistic AND misandristic. On the one hand, the Writer feels that the Gay Love and the GayBaby is pure and holy, where on the other they are simultaneously reducing the impregnated male to below their own level, where they can comfortably deal with him. They inflict every possible 'female' torment on him, to get even for every torment that has ever befallen them. And then again back on the other hand, you have the 'father' and his reaction to this radical change in behaviour in the female-coded pregnant!guy, thus mocking and belittling women who are so weak and ridiculous while pregnant.
It's severely fucked up, even more so than a lot of the stuff wherein you have the 13 y/o girls in male bodies--because on top of all *that* fuckedupedness, you have the procreative aspect piling on yet more fuckedup.
It's a shame that those problems seem to really and truly permeate the subgenre so thoroughly, cos I think the concept of a pregnant male is a fascinating one and I think one worth exploring.
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I don't care if you make hand-wavey explanations about the actual science or magic, but at least make the reactions to it believable. Like, me? I'd also be looking funny at my neighbour if he said *he* was pregnant, by his boyfriend or otherwise. And if I were a guy who'd gotten pregnant? I'd be freaking the hell out because this is NOT POSSIBLE, I DON'T HAVE OVARIES *OR* A FUCKING UTERUS.
I think that MPreg would severely fuck up most gay relationships. I mean, even if both guys were receptive to the idea of a kid once they get their heads around the fact that they have one a-baking... A pregnancy, and later the baby itself when it pops, is a big strain on a relationship and it's not one they went into the relationship prepared for the possiblity. I mean, most M-F couples are aware that there is a *possiblity* of pregnancy no matter what form(s) of birth control they use. M-M couples? Not so much. It's gonna put some wear and tear and Papa and Daddy's Pure, Gay Love, at least, even if they do get through it. Which, dude, I'm betting a lot of couples wouldn't.
Also, I tend to get the feeling that a lot of MPreg is both misogynistic AND misandristic. On the one hand, the Writer feels that the Gay Love and the GayBaby is pure and holy, where on the other they are simultaneously reducing the impregnated male to below their own level, where they can comfortably deal with him. They inflict every possible 'female' torment on him, to get even for every torment that has ever befallen them. And then again back on the other hand, you have the 'father' and his reaction to this radical change in behaviour in the female-coded pregnant!guy, thus mocking and belittling women who are so weak and ridiculous while pregnant.
It's severely fucked up, even more so than a lot of the stuff wherein you have the 13 y/o girls in male bodies--because on top of all *that* fuckedupedness, you have the procreative aspect piling on yet more fuckedup.
It's a shame that those problems seem to really and truly permeate the subgenre so thoroughly, cos I think the concept of a pregnant male is a fascinating one and I think one worth exploring.