Can you please explain this to me ?

[confusedimmigrant]

I follow a friend of a friend online they are a gay couple (both men) . He just put a picture of an adorable newborn with the caption on august the 22nd my boyfriend gave birth to .... blah blah

what does that mean ? That they had a surrogate and his boyfriend is the father ? Is the the "politically correct" way to announce it ?
I find it very dissrespectful

Jesus love they have a baby, try and lighten up

To my mind, it's a silly phrase to use because, unless it's a transman having the baby then there is no biological structure for the man to "give birth".

No issue with "we're having a baby", or "we had the baby" - quite a big issue with "we're pregnant" and just pure nonsense to make out that a biological man has in any way delivered a baby through his non-existent chuff.

I don't need to chill out. But the homophobic and transphobic and surrogacy-phobic and adoption-phobic bashing really does need to stop.

Why everyone is so busy judging others and bashing others for their personal lives and choices, which has fuck all to do with them, frankly, they're not focusing on the real problems we're all facing in this very, very divided country and world right now.

It would have been much nicer if they had thanked the woman who had actually just gone through labour to provide them with a child, you know like most men do when they announce the birth of their children. They don't need to name her, just acknowledge what this woman has done rather than make it about them.

Ask him how his poorly lady bits are and if he's healing well? More care and respect needs to given to the body that nurtured and birthed the baby...

It would have been much nicer if they had thanked the woman who had actually just gone through labour to provide them with a child, you know like most men do when they announce the birth of their children. They don't need to name her, just acknowledge what this woman has done rather than make it about them.

^ This.

Because they're two penis owners they are clueless about anything this poor woman will be going through for their gain.

And clueless what SHE WILL CONTINUE TO GO THROUGH, for days, weeks, possibly even the rest of her life... but hey, cutesie Insta moment done and dusted...

All views of surrogacy and sexuality aside, if anyone claimed they'd just 'given birth' yet hadn't actually had a baby come out of their vagina or through a surgical slit in belly then they didn't give birth. What a weird thing to write.

Sounds like a funny comment taken far too seriously

Totally agree with you @holidaycountdown54321

Why is she a ‘poor woman’? She knew what she was doing and entered willingly. She should be praised for doing an amazing thing, not pitied for a choice she made to help others.
I imagine they did thank her plenty in private.

I dont find it disrespectful.
I find it mind numbingly ridiculous. Nothing at all to do with them being a same sex couple or being PC. Its the equivalent of saying my husband gave birth to our daughter.
Fucking dumbasses. Ugh.

A man cannot give birth.
The only way this man could have given birth is if he was born a woman and is still biologically a woman.

It's not 'disrespectful' . It's a joke. Sigh.

The next thing will be women telling us they have made their partner pregnant.
Well no, seeing as though you can't ejaculate sperm out of your vagina.