Months after giving birth to a child, the pregnant man is still fighting the stereotypes. But, what are the stereotypes of a pregnant man? I mean we can all think of some stereotypes for nearly every divide in society (from the fun - ex. pot smoking hippie to the cruel - ex. baby eating republican) but how do you stereotype a group as small as men who have given birth?
Since I can only think of one other man who has given birth I assume that the general stereotypes of a pregnant man are similar to him personally - Austrian accent, former body building champ, possibly a robot from the future come back to the past to kill and/or save John Connor and most likely harbours Gubernatorial aspirations.
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One needn't fight a stereotype about their own group to fight stereotypes, because stereotypes bite you going as well as coming. People may think x, y, or z about a given group of people, which can be bad. Those guys are lazy These are dishonest, and them over there are pushy. But it can also be bad if you don't match enough stereotypes to be included anywhere. I suspect the pregnant man's problem has less to do with stereotypes about pregnant men than with stereotypes about men, women, and pregnancy, all of which exclude him in at least some small respect.
- Dan
Don't we all fight stereotypes on some level? I fight the "Moms can't be smart enough to ____" stereotype. In college it was, "Cute girls don't make good engineers." I've come to realize that people will never know me by any stereotype they might theoretically place me in. On the other hand, when you see each person as unique...the world becomes a richly decorated creation.
The "pregnant man" needn't worry about stereotypes about pregnant men, because she's not a man. Just because a woman cuts off her breasts and glues on a penis doesn't make her a man. It makes her a year-round Halloween costume. The sad thing, in my opinion, is that her partner thinks that if "PM" calls herself a "man" it means she's not a lesbian. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. They're both gay. One's just drssed up like a guy to perpetuate the gross denial.
I think he was a man then became a woman and is now returning to manhood?
this is absolutely retarded.
maybe the stereotype(s) he is struggling with is that men can't give birth...
what does this guy want, an asterisk in every biology textbook in the world?
Yes! That is perfect. It worked for the home run record. Or did it?
I just don't understand all the Hype...why has he/she decided to do this?? For the money...I'm sure they have been paid quite nicely for the scoop on this. If someone wants to change sex..then fine..but it's their business and it shouldn't have been brought out to the public. They wanted the attention and now it's going to be the children (yes..he/she is pregnant again)that will have to deal with all this "stereotype" crap. I say..fine...just keep it to your self...I don't need to know about it..it's not my business.
I think a lot of the reason why the media hype this up is just to gain publicity, and arguably the person (pregnant woman/man) as well.
One thing that is that this person is biologically a woman (hence why s/he could give birth). The first woman to give birth from transplanted uterus was very recent (try googling this) hence cannot be this person.
But even though s/he is biologically a woman, s/he is legally a man, hence why "pregnant man". Strictly speaking it is just a woman giving birth. Going back to my point earlier, the media hyped it up as "pregnant man" for publicity and they can do that because s/he is legally a man.
As for stereotype, I think people probably need more examples of "pregnant man" before a stereotype is attached. So far, I believe there is only this person.
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