Massive Daniel Radcliffe News!

[Birdsweepsin]

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.

Erin Darke isn't a household name so she's not on the front page link - the full BBC article headline says 'Daniel Radcliffe and Erin Darke expecting first child'. That seems fair enough to me. Congratulations to them both.

HUMOUR IS NOT ALLOWED

Can I just chip on here and say "we are having a baby/ pregnant" really winds me up?

So men aren’t allowed to be acknowledged when they’re having a child?

If he was getting married it would also just say his name, even though he’s not marrying himself.

The media uses his name so people can click on it.
If they put just his wife’s name then no one would click on it.
If they put both names the headline would be too long.

Stop trying to make an issue out of something when there is none.

In the context of pregnancy, "expecting" has traditionally referred to the state of being pregnant. This is reflected in the Cambridge dictionary definition:
"expect verb (BE PREGNANT)".

Headline writers, pressed for space, are fond of ellipses. This particular one did have a certain irony to it, which the OP highlighted in a humorous way.

There's a difference between 'expecting' with no qualification; and 'expecting a child'.

I think this thread is in poor taste

If that's the bar for threads then most of mm threads would disappear.

Pretty sure he didn't write the headline

Where is the ranting?

congrats to the happy couple 💐

Sorry clymene

wasnt expecting that to cut off the original quote

Where is the ranting?

‘We are pregnant’ is obviously incorrect but ‘we are having a baby’ I’m fine with.

Do you want parters to only say ‘my partner is pregnant’? Or is there another way you’d word it?

To me that sounds dismissive in a way; like they have no responsibility to either their partner or their unborn child. Like the pregnancy is nothing to do with them.

Come on it's the menz isn't it??
I half expected this to be about surrogacy

Its in amazingly poor taste for Radcliffe to turn on the woman who created the work that has defined his entire professional life

The point is Daniel believes transwomen are women, and castigated JKR for saying only women could give birth. I think he’s also on the side of “lesbians are bigots if they don’t do dick”. It does therefore seem rather funny that he seems to know as a straight bloke exactly what a woman is when it comes to relationships and creating a family. As they say…. Ally on the streets, transphobe in the sheets 😂😂

I agree. The phrase "expectant father" has been around for donkey's years, and no one thinks it means the man is the one carrying the child.

We all know men's role in conception and birth is small compared to women's, but men do become fathers, and when a woman is carrying their child they are expecting a baby.

I agree. Expectant father

That's a whole different argument from wether he is expecting a baby though.

I actually think 'expecting' when it refers to pregnancy usually refers to women. Men say 'my wife is expecting a baby' or 'we're expecting a baby'. They don't say 'I'm expecting a baby'.

That's what is ridiculous about the headline. The fact that his wife has been cut out altogether.

It must have been exciting for them waiting to see which one got pregnant. It's about 50/50 these days, isn't it?

But that is what makes it funny @Somebodiesmother

God this is painful

Come on you disingenuous wassocks...this headline never used to be written. It would have been Daniel Twatcliffe and his partner blah blah blah are expecting.

I thought exactly the same as you OP.

But he didn't write the headline did he?

If you want to criticise DR for what he's said about JKR, or his views on the trans issue - fine.

But personal mudslinging just because his partner is having a baby and an editor chose to write the headline in a certain way is ridiculous, and just looks petty. Of course the headline was going to focus on the most famous half of the couple!

But the headline is in the third person. A man might not say 'I'm expecting a baby' but that isn't the same as saying 'Daniel Radcliffe is expecting his first child'.

@PlateBilledDuckyPerson yes it is. I've just done a search of headlines for famous men I can think of with much less famous wives and the wife is always mentioned.

In any event, the reason this is funny is because of the shit about women that Radcliffe comes out with. If he didn't, this wouldn't be funny.