They give him hormonal mood swings and the inability to wear Prada. Wouldn't it be funny if HE were pregnant? And so, her husband Brian Kinney gets pregnant and is thus punished for his misogynistic ways by being forced to suffer stretch marks and swollen ankles and the indignity that is pregnancy. "Or sometimes," she expounded, "It's not Justin who gets pregnant, but Brian. You see, being pregnant is no fun and the guy of her dreams being there would make it fun and thus, she would write the ultimate in fantasy, she would make pregnancy sexy." The fact that this requires assbabies, medical impossibilities, turning Brian into something he's not, turning Justin into, essentially, a woman, makes not a bit of difference to her. "Yes, you see, the author is in love with some guy in her fandom, say Brian Kinney, and so she writes her ultimate fantasy, pregnancy. Instead, I emailed a fan fiction author who, under the pen name “vamphile,” writes fan fiction set in the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Queer as Folk worlds, and asked what she thought of mpreg. And yet … I couldn't bring myself to read even one mpreg story. Now, I did go to journalism school and I sincerely try to investigate all my stories. "They have the babies out of their butts." (She didn't actually say "butt.")Īfter I soaked my brain in bleach for a few hours, I called her just to make sure it wasn't a hallucinatory nightmare. "It's stories about men from television shows, books, and movies who get pregnant." She looked at me, as if wondering whether to go on. "What do you mean?" I bleated to the friend who explained it was fan fiction written about male pregnancy. I didn't know what it was, and oh, how I long for those innocent days of yesteryear.
I don't know when or where I first heard of something called "mpreg," although I know it was online.