I understand her point and she's probably right.

How about developmental abnormalities, or birth defects? How about pregnancy complications, such as preeclampsia, or placenta previa, or gestational diabetes?

Thank you for your willingness to discuss Mpreg, you shouldn't be hung out to dry over a single word but it is loaded in this context. Especially since rights to control birth control and pregnancy decisions are under fire today. Squandered brought to mind A Handmaid's Tale for me.

Well, as an actual romance novelist, I have no problem with that. Bring on the mpreg romance novels! I just find it interesting that in the whole scope of the mpreg community, according to Lyric's interview above, there is virtually no attention given to abortion or other heavier issues surrounding pregnancy. How…

Exactly. His Tumblr pissed me off. Especially the post with the pregnant guy saying, "Don't know what all these women moan about. Pregnancy is a toddle." Fuck him and that noise. I almost lost my life during my pregnancy with eclampsia.

This right here. He isn't coming across as Pro Life Fascist, at all, but also very obtuse. Pregnancy is a fantasy for him, not a reality to be dealt with and contained. He isn't fantasizing about being a parent, he's fantasizing about being pregnant. He wouldn't like me telling him he's squandering his testosterone…

Yeah. I'm not telling anybody how to feel about not being able to physically carry a child, but I'm not squandering shit. My choices don't affect your fantasies.

I had similar discussions in infertility communities a lot. Pregnancy is not a zero sum game. Nobody is "squandering" a pregnancy and making you unable to get pregnant. Jesus.

I didn't like that any either. I had my tubes tied recently, simply because I don't want children now or ever, and I had to fight doctors for five years before they allowed be to make that decision about my body and my life. Him waltzing in and telling me I don't appreciate the missed opportunity to fuck up everything…

There is, but they want artificial wombs. Apparently when the Masters of the Universe can reproduce parthenogenetically, they'll have no further use for women, so women will therefore die off as a species. Yes, women are a separate species in their world.

And I think the sentiment is further problematic when he says later that most mpreg fiction ends at or soon after birth. Evidently, they don't take into account how having a baby really, actually changes your life, whether you give that child up for adoption, or become a parent. It's just pregnancy / birth make…

I can definitely see how some women might feel that way, but the idea of a young guy saying the same squiks me out for some reason.

"...watch as youths squander early pregnancies." That statement didn't sit well with me.

Ohhhhh. That is truly scary. When I was in my teens I was friends with two sisters who had two older brothers. One of the brothers had killed himself, and the family was struggling to deal. The older brother, over the time I knew him, became progressively stranger and had really weird experiences and thoughts that, it…

When I was a kid I used to go to church with my aunt and uncle every Sunday, and after church, my aunt would go up in her painting studio and paint and I would mess around and play pretend or whatever in the living room. One weekend in November when I was 9, my uncle went out of town to go hunting, so my aunt and I…

Dude, I LOVE stories about the Fairies and give them a wide goddamn berth in general. She got off light.

A friend of mine had a story growing up about a fairy thorn in a field. The farmer wanted rid of it but everytime he tried to dig it up, something would happen. The shovel would snap, he'd fall in some mud - just narky little things that irritated and embarrassed him. 'It's because you're irritating the fey,' he was…

must have been the seelie court. unseelies woulda murdered a bitch.

As far as retaliation from the Fair Folk goes, that's pretty mild. She was lucky!

My mother comes from the Isle of Man, which is about halfway between England and Ireland. There's a place called the Fairy Bridge and it's considered wise to greet the fairies when you're passing it, or they might get angry with you and you don't want that. When Mum was about 10, she had a girl friend from England who…