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.

And for the record, I'm really really happy to do some personal mud slinging against Radcliffe because he's an odious talentless oik @LookingOldTheseDays

There's a current, very sad, article about the death of Andrew Lloyd Webber's son. His mother (Sarah Hugill) is not mentioned at all, even in the text, presumably because she is not famous, although personally I think she should be.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65078024

You will pick on any damn thing about people who do not agree with your right wing GC agenda, just to give the ole ideology a bit more air time on Mumsnet (not that it needs it).

I've actually just seen the headline on the BBC and had the exact same thought. He is not expecting a child His wife or girlfriend is.

How else should it be phrased?

But he didn't write the headline so you're slinging your mud in the wrong direction.

How else should it be phrased?

Well quite. If you can say that a couple is expecting a baby (which you definitely can), then logically speaking, both of the partners are expecting the baby. Just because 'expecting' is also used as a euphemism for 'pregnant', that doesn't mean it stops meaning 'anticipating/looking forward to the birth of one's child'.

Great news!
He must be so relieved to find that his wife is the sort of woman that generally comes with ovaries and uterus.

I totally agree about Radcliffe being an arse though.

But... more important.. how will he know whether he has a boy or girl...

Well, I found it funny.

I'm with the PP who hates hearing 'we're pregnant' though. No, only one of you is, and it's never the man.

Not quite as bad as one I recently saw in print. Of a couple: 'they will be giving birth in [location].'

He does seem to have discovered what a woman is,

How is believing that women deserve sex based spaces 'right wing'?!

Eh? Don't get the issue. This is big funny just nasty.

😂I see what you did there

I lol'd.

I have no respect for him after the shit he came away with.

Maybe they drew straws to see which of them would give birth.

Well I’m disappointed op. I thought you were going to report that he had realised what a massive twat he has been and apologised to JK Rowling.

@Birdsweepsin Oh FFS!

Nothing wrong with this headline at all. What a silly thread, and a daft thing to get irate about. He IS expecting a baby. It's not like the headline said he's pregnant. How daft.

He is expecting a baby. He's not pregnant but is expecting his child to be born. Its correct.

Completely agree OP - it’s surprising that they chose to ignore the woman who is a well known actor in her own right and who is actually carrying the baby, but perhaps the journalist thought his feelz would be hurt if they printed something that reminded him of the absence of his uterus.

Other media outlets have managed to use their words properly to reflect the presence of the woman in their headlines, thank goodness.

Eh? How the hell can this be a reverse? Do you even know what a reverse is?

Actually, so was I. I was really hoping that he'd finally seen the light and that he was announcing that he'd been wrong, and that actually, transwomen are MEN.

Because they are men, and DR has always claimed they're women. And distanced himself from JK Rowling because of this.

I do not think that having GC views equates to being right-wing.

I saw the headline and thought the same thing, @Birdsweepsin.

Can't wait for when he's in labour pushing out a 10 pound baby.