What is wrong with this picture?

Well, this proves that men can be pregnant, doesn't it?

I mean, an illustration is only one step away from reality so I fully expect TRAs to demand that drawing be included in textbooks and health education.

A woman's body will strip the calcium from her teeth if the baby needs it

Pregnant women know their teeth are vulnerable during pregnancy.

Seeing it described like that is quite amazing.

It's difficult to articulate this exactly as I mean it, but I'm not surprised that some men have a raging envy over what women's bodies are capable of.

All those complicated, interdependent mechanisms that go towards perpetrating the species. It's nothing short of miraculous.

Having to haul your pregnant ass to the dentist because your fillings are falling out, or you're getting raging toothache loses something of its mundanity when you realise it's because

A woman's body will strip the calcium from her teeth if the baby needs it

Ah yes but you see Disco, anything women can do, men can do better

Obviously you're totally right. Not all women's bodies can maintain the right hormonal levels to sustain a pregnancy, so how a womb transplanted into a man's body where there's no room is going to get enough blood AND form a placenta AND keep a baby alive is a total mystery. Magic, or unicorns, or something.

Isn't there more to growing a baby then just having the womb. Otherwise we could grow babies in labs or other species.

How would a man's body know to create the placenta and feed the baby. A woman's body will strip the calcium from her teeth if the baby needs it, will a man's body know to do that? What about all the hormones? What about the softening of the muscles and movement of the hip bones to allow room for the baby. What about the increase in blood to provide to the baby.

Maybe I'm being dumb but I'm sure the whole thing isn't done just by the womb and fertilised egg, is it?

It isn't two spines though. It's the spinal cord.

Something strange is going on here but I can't quite figure it out. The people pushing this don't believe* that men will carry babies for the foreseeable future but they're engaged in creating a myth that it's coming soon. It's something to do with invalidating the supremely female act. Something to do with devaluing what women's bodies are capable of to it just being a matter of rummaging around, doing some plumbing, and Bob's your uncle.

• that's not to say there aren't some very gullible people out there who will soak this up like sponges

AAK would I be right in guessing we share some of the same tastes in apallingly bad yet strangely fascinating reading material?

Dear queer theorists - ass babies aren't real. I know the fanfic you read about Harry having an affair with Draco you read when you were 12 told you they were, but it lied.

Also it's generally not considered ideal for a person to have more than one spine, and what I assume are the testicles in that illustration look like a corded mouse I had made by Logitech in the 2000s.

Two spinal columns and a cloaca...

And a partridge in a pear tree... 🎼

Well that's er.... interesting 😂

Well, did at least prompt me to look up the evolution of the vagina, which is quite fascinating. Marsupials birth via a cloaca, BUT fetus very undeveloped. Full term out yer bum ain't good engineering chaps, and even if it did wonderfully stimulate your prostate, you won't be doing it more than once and possibly a long time in adult diapers, or a recurrent anal fistula............
There is a reason females evolved a vagina!

ErrolTheDragon
That is what killed Lili Elbe/Einar Wegener. The person whose transition surgeries were romanticized in The Danish Girl.
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/04/14/the-tragic-true-story-behind-the-danish-girl/

obsession

There are a lot of thoroughly unpleasant people there, including the author.

There is money being spent on this research that could feed actual babies and prevent maternal and neonatal mortality.

So that's all I have to say about THAT.

That was 1931 .... the first successful transplants (kidneys) weren't till the 1950s.

@ErrolTheDragon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Elbe#Death

Ass babies

I genuinely can't decide whether to laugh or cry.

No one warns them that ever time they have tried to implant a womb in a male the person died.

What... it's actually been tried? Were there animal tests first... either way, surely must have been somewhere dodgy without any meaningful ethics committee type thing?

As I understand it the plan is that the infant will be surgically removed from the implanted womb at term.
No one warns them that ever time they have tried to implant a womb in a male the person died.
The lies that young people are being told about changing gender are creating terrible trauma in the victims who embrace the ideology and discovered they were duped.

Ewwww

I find all this pregnancy/motherhood appropriation - on top of the womanface - quite disturbing and distressing actually. Babies aren't objects to fetishise. Women aren't either but fgs have some semblance of decency...

So they're going to ... shit a baby?

They would be in for a bit of a shock finding out all the other downsides of pregnancy. lungs squished up somewhere near you right ear

I don't believe there's a bloke on earth who could tolerate his bladder being squished to about the size of an egg cup for months.