Thank you. I'm very glad your brother was able to pull it together. Mine is now middle-aged and is a ruin of a man. I still have hope that he'll be able to make something of his life, but he's already squandered his gifts and left fatherless children behind.

So true. We've pretty much accepted that my brother will never recover as long as my grandmother lives, because she loves the "savior" role too much and ends up financing his addictions.

Purse dogs are so out! Everyone will have an ear spider in 2015.

Also true.

It started out with an online friend asking me if I'd give "something she'd written" a once-over. I've worked in teaching and media forever and had already done a lot of free writing and editing for friends with causes, mostly just checking or rewriting press releases. This opened the door to a whole freaky world.…

It was absolutely written by women, but a lot of it was also as sexist as hell. I was only editing for a few people - all middle aged women who were pretty good writers - but I got sucked into the vortex for a while and it was pretty creepy at times.

You're bringing back some weird memories. No matter how abrasive or mature the adult character is, the de-aged version is always some Keane painting brought to life - hiding behind skirts, thumb in mouth. Oh, and all adult female characters instantly become maternal no matter how OOC that might be.

I'm sure it's out there!

I don't know if it's changed, but when I was editing fanfic in the dark ages, most of the mpreg was written by women, some of whom were grossly misogynist. I think a lot of that was because they were immature and in order to get James and Snape into bed, they had (!) to trash Lily. It's a mixed up muddled up shook up…

Baby!Snape is so adorable! Scully enjoys taking care of Li'l Mulder!

Check out the dude's site, but not from work.

When I was about 8 all my mother's friends were pregnant and talking about it graphically unaware that my little ears were flapping as I pretended to read. I started then to think about growing babies in jars with wet paper towels like we were doing in science class.

Hmm. Gender swapping? Group marriage? Everyone de-aged into sexy teens?

As one of my 12-year-old students wrote on the feedback form after a sex-ed class. "I learned a lot. I thought the baby came out of the ass."

I suspect that a lot of mpeg fiction (and there is so much of it out there) is about bringing male objects of desire down to a vulnerable woman's level in a weird hurt/comfort way, or shoehorning two men (or three men, or three men and an alien) into the most cliched heteronormative domestic bliss situation. I used to…

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.

If you're not a male-preg enthusiast, this doesn't apply to you.

It seems like they're combining a fetish for pregnancy with the assumption that anything women can do, men can do better, so nothing new here.

Anything containing peanuts is automatically second-rate.

Fear + Loudness = Profit!