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Massive Daniel Radcliffe News!

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Birdsweepsin · 26/03/2023 07:31

Wow! I mean , congratulations Dan! You really are taking gender-non-conformity to the extreme.

Total respect. I mean, c-section, obviously, no?

And is your partner supportive? How exciting. For her to become a dad, that's just ... amazing!

What?

Oh. Oh, I see.

Sorry. Wrong end of the stick.

Massive Daniel Radcliffe News!
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MidsomerMurmurs · 26/03/2023 08:46

BertieBotts · 26/03/2023 07:36

Surely expecting doesn't mean pregnant and has always been used this way?

Er things must have changed pretty recently then! Of course “expecting” means pregnant - in an old-fashioned, 1950s, Call The Midwife, jolly hockeysticks vibe.

Picture an early 1960s docker addressing a nun:
“My wife’s expecting, sister”
”My wife’s in the family way” etc.

For a man to say “I’m expecting” in this particular context is just cringe. (And obviously it’s a different usage from “I’m expecting the number 3 bus to turn up in a minute”).

But times change, and I have heard couples (the male partner speaking) saying “we’re pregnant”. Again: cringe.

midsomermurderess · 26/03/2023 08:45

‘Amusing’. Others will be the judge of that. We do t need your point explaining, it’s just a bit of desperate shoehorning.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 26/03/2023 08:39

I find that news report jarring. It takes two people to make a baby, one male, one female. I would find it less jarring if it was a headline about a pregnant woman as it's not uncommon for a pregnant woman not to reveal who the father is, but in the case of a man, he is only expecting because a woman is pregnant, and she has simply been erased from this headline. Why not write 'Daniel Radcliffe and partner expecting ...'? It just feels like part of a pattern of minimising what an enormous thing it is for a woman to go through pregnancy and childbirth. This casual taking of women's reproductive labour for granted is what's made it possible for surrogacy to be accepted in some countries and circles.

It's probably just a thoughtless bit of wording but it's telling that it can happen.

OhVicIveFallen · 26/03/2023 08:37

Aww, you got my hopes up. I thought he'd made a public apology to jkr admitting he shouldn't be speaking for women. What an odious little twerp he is.

WickedSerious · 26/03/2023 08:32

FlickFlackTrap · 26/03/2023 08:00

He clearly knows what a woman is when he wants to procreate.

Yep,they always do.

GoodChat · 26/03/2023 08:30

raspberrywine · 26/03/2023 08:29

Why are posters saying "pick your battles"? I think OP was making fun, being amusing. Not taking things seriously. Hardly a battle.

Nobody posts lightheartedly on the Feminism board. It's used for serious discussion or the naughty corner as MNHQ sees fit

raspberrywine · 26/03/2023 08:29

Why are posters saying "pick your battles"? I think OP was making fun, being amusing. Not taking things seriously. Hardly a battle.

Meandfour · 26/03/2023 08:28

Abhannmor · 26/03/2023 07:51

He isn't pregnant ; she is.

Although , at a stretch , one might say ' they' are expecting a baby.

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Well yes: he is still “expecting” his first child to be born isn’t he…. It doesn’t say he is pregnant.
Think people are reading too much into this tbh.

picklemewalnuts · 26/03/2023 08:27

It's just an example of his rank hypocrisy. He apparently knows enough about biology to work out how to be a dad, yet can't see the difference between a trans woman and a woman.

Iwonder08 · 26/03/2023 08:23

So just because he disagreed with your trans views he is not allowed to have a child? 'expecting' doesn't mean pregnant..it is a really poor choice of battle to pick.

Coxspurplepippin · 26/03/2023 08:18

AnyMucca · 26/03/2023 08:15

Pick your battles. Picking up and ranting about a non-issue isn't doing us any favours. To the point, I am wondering if this is a reverse.

How on earth is it a reverse?

AnyMucca · 26/03/2023 08:15

Pick your battles. Picking up and ranting about a non-issue isn't doing us any favours. To the point, I am wondering if this is a reverse.

SettlingForANewPassword · 26/03/2023 08:06

FlickFlackTrap · 26/03/2023 08:00

He clearly knows what a woman is when he wants to procreate.

And this.

SettlingForANewPassword · 26/03/2023 08:05

Coxspurplepippin · 26/03/2023 07:53

Daniel Radcliffe has been somewhat unsupportive of JK Rowling, the woman whose incredible body of work made him a multimillionaire while he was still in his early teens, and gave him the platform to further his acting career, over her advocacy of the rights of women and girls he's such a feminist.

Daniel Radcliffe says he believes trans women are women. He doesn't seem to think sex is immutable. It therefore doesn't seem such a stretch that he believes he could become pregnant. As per the headline.

Lovely and succinct.

Fluffodils · 26/03/2023 08:03

I guess it's differing views of "expecting"

NotBadConsidering · 26/03/2023 08:01

Hard to tell with celebrities. “Expecting first child” could mean

”Expecting first child to be taken from its mother as part of surrogacy arrangement within minutes of its birth.”

FlickFlackTrap · 26/03/2023 08:00

He clearly knows what a woman is when he wants to procreate.

Greenolivetrees · 26/03/2023 07:59

I'm as terfy as they come but the headline is correct. Pregnant is a biological state, expecting is a mental one. He IS expecting a baby. I'm expecting to go to a farm in an hour...

Fluffodils · 26/03/2023 07:58

@Birdsweepsin Ah I think I'm getting it. Thank you. No you don't need to apologise I just wanted to learn. Thank you.

Lydiahateswashing · 26/03/2023 07:57

Get your goat?

Stop bleating on!

Slothtoes · 26/03/2023 07:57

Smile birdsweepin

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Birdsweepsin · 26/03/2023 07:56

And also, what @Coxspurplepippin said

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Birdsweepsin · 26/03/2023 07:54

Sorry if I have confused you, and I understand that the BBC are going with the more famous half of the couple.

But frankly the male contribution to the whole pregnancy thing is fairly effortless in comparison. And yet she is completely erased in that headline.

That's the point I was trying to make, albeit ina circuitous and amusing way. Clearly I failed. I'll get my goat.

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Fluffodils · 26/03/2023 07:53

Abhannmor · 26/03/2023 07:51

He isn't pregnant ; she is.

Although , at a stretch , one might say ' they' are expecting a baby.

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But its still his baby? So he's expecting one?

Like I expect a bus to turn up - or interest rates to rise.