I should be in bed right now. But I had to share this with you. Studying my blog statistics, two things struck me as odd.
- search term used: “joseph fiennes pregnant”
I can honestly say: I hope he’s not! I keep getting flashs of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Junior. Though I really loved this movie when I was a kid, I don’t want to see it happen in real life… - Somebody translated my entry about German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz to German with the google translator. I know that usually, only crap comes from automatic translating programs but google saw it fit to translate my perfectly neutral “the teacher” into “die Lehrerin”, which is female and especially wrong because it was a male teacher in the book.
I wouldn’t object to it if they made everything female but police officer stays male in the translation, as does painter and expressionist.
Not fair and not good.
Sorry, if I wasn’t completely coherent, I’m very tired right now. Sleep.
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Edit:
Ok, I almost got six hours of sleep so I can see that my first point might be misunderstood. So a quick note on that:
I’d love to see men get pregnant. That would really be cool. But I wouldn’t want it to end up like in Junior with all the hiding and being followed and the complications.
Also, men have no pain threshold to speak of when sport’s not involved [I know, I’m generalising and prejudiced and sooo PunC but that’s my experience], so I guess it could be easier to just get the child yourself.
Anyway, Joseph Fiennes, if you are pregnant, congratulations! And let the world know how it’s done! But only, if the child’s mother confirms that pregnant men are bearable. :P
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I dunno…mpreg = squick.
While I completely agree with the sentiment expressed in “The Life of Brian” – Men do, of course, have the right to be pregnant.
Still…I can’t even deal with that “We’re pregnant”-thing that seems to be so modern for men to say. We?!?
I honestly have to say, I don’t get “mpreg=squick”. What do you mean by that?
Quoting “The Life of Brian” proves you’re right. Everything’s right in that movie. :P
We’re pregnant – yeah, that’s awful. But if the man’s pregnant, the woman’s not (and vice versa) – no we there. As a pregnant man, I would resent my partner to say it just as much as as a pregnant woman.
mpreg -> male pregnancy…it’s a fanfic thing. (Crevette admits to liking+writing O.Bloom mpreg fics, for example)
squick -> also a fanfic thing…it means that something freaks you out or disgusts you. So it’s used either as feedback or as a warning (may squick).
I totally hated the movie Junior. I just couldnt stand the part where he is supposed to abandon the test and doesn’t -giving rise to the movie. Somehow .. it creeped me out ..
@deadra
mpreg I got, or better could guess. squick was new so thanks for explaining.
@Swen
I loved all the funny Arnie movies when I was a kid – Junior, Twins, Kindergarten Cop. And I still think they are – albeit very silly – really funny.
I never thought it strange though that he would decide to stay pregnant. I never freaked about that. But I can understand that that creeps someone out.
Es gibt echt mehr male pregnancy fanfics? Das ist eine eigene Gattung? Ja oarg! Ich hab nur eine einzige gelesen, vor Ewigkeiten, und die war von Smallville, da ist der Clark vom Lex schwanger geworden. Und da fand ich die Idee herrlich kreativ, weil der Clark gemeint hat, es könnt ja sein, dass er auf seinem Planeten eigentlich weiblich ist… Jetzt bin ich voll enttäuscht, dass das nicht eine einzigartige Geschichte ist, sondern, dass es da viel so Zeug gibt. (Orlando Bloom schwanger? WTF? Wer denkt sich denn sowas aus?)
Ja, eher Orlando Bloom als irgendein total männlicher Mann, oder? :P
Aber eigentlich ist es schon bedenklich, dass es eine eigene Gattung ist, da hast du schon recht.