Is anyone else sick of the Pregnant Man?

[Plant City Rebel]

At least he can answer us the age old question: Is giving birth really more painful than being kicked in the nuts?

No she can't.  She doesn't have nuts.

And that has already been answered.  It hurts worse to give birth, no doubt about it.  The kicker (teehee) is that men get hit in the nuts dozens (on average) of times in their life times whereas the ladies only give birth 1 or 2 times (again, average) and it can be controlled.  I'd trade one or two instances of slightly worse, yet planned pain for random and often (relatively) slightly less pain.  We men need to bring up this little factoid everytime a woman bitches about child birth.  I know I do.

LOL, it's not just the childbirth that hurts during the pregnancy.  There are other things that ache and hurt the whole nine months.  At least the pain in the nuts goes away after 5 or 10 minutes, the breasts ache the whole nine months! Then the Braxton hicks contractions the last two months, and then labor, and transition, not to mention the childbirth itself!   And yes it can be controlled, but then you men complain about other parts of you swelling and aching

Seriously though, whether she wants to be called a he or not, SHE is still female, until all her girlie bits are taken out, she is still a she.  Ditto with the guys, you got the banana, you're still a man, no matter how well it is tucked.  ( Or how well your makeup is done)

[Plant City Rebel]

Seriously though, whether she wants to be called a he or not, SHE is still female, until all her girlie bits are taken out, she is still a she.  Ditto with the guys, you got the banana, you're still a man, no matter how well it is tucked.  ( Or how well your makeup is done)

It's a little more complex than that. She's biologically female, which allows her to develop the child, but psychologically she feels she's a man. It's a gender identity issue.

Might be a gender identity issue, as it has been pointed out, she remains a female, genetically.  If follow the train of thought that allows that she views herself more as a man, that makes her one, then it stands to reason, that if any of us choose to feel that we are anything other than we are, than it is.  Which, as we well know, is just not true.  I'm sorry, I'm of the opinion, if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.  Uterus+Pregnant=Female, no matter how much she wants to be a he.   

[Plant City Rebel]

I'm just wondering, in today's society, with all of the traditional gender lines being so blurred, why would it be such an issue about a person identifying with the opposite gender. We know, that women can do traditional male jobs just as well, if not better than men, and have been breaking gender stereotypes for years.   On the same  hand, I know men, who are top in their fields, at traditional female arts.   Little girls now routinely play with toys that in the past have been marketed strictly to males, ditto with little boys and dolls.  Why is it such a big deal to have to have your outside match what you feel on the inside.  Seriously, I don't feel like a 31 brunette housewife, I still feel like I did when I was 18, and except for the fact that I look in the mirror and know that I'm not a size zero, I don't feel that I'm not. Do I feel as if I need cosmetic work to make both match?  No, I'm happy with myself as I am .  Goodness knows it took enough time and energy to get that way. Ditto with  my eldest daughter, started in Cheerleading, she's now loving Karate.  Do I care that I don't get to spend the amount of time doing her hair and makeup?  Heck no, I'm just tickled she's enjoying herself.   I'm just trying to figure out how to keep her gi white, when we were told not to bleach it.   Does that fact that she's kicking tail in competition make her less of a girl? Should she be encouraged, to be anything less than the little girlie girl she is outside of the dojo?  Should we stop going for the manicures and pedicures because she is now focusing more on katas than on toe touches?

I don't think we're ever going to agree on this.  I don't think that anyone will agree on this in 20 years, but hey, we're having fun right?