[ SECRET POST #4438 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4438 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, het preg plays entirely too neatly into standard gender roles. Like, you could almost say that if a het-based story goes on long enough, the woman will get pregnant. It almost feels inevitable with most het fiction - a foregone conclusion that of course she'll get pregnant eventually. Which turns me right off, to the point of being a squick for me.

Mpreg, on the other hand, subverts those gender roles. It can definitely still be squicky to me, depending on how it's handled, but it's not a turn-off by default, because "Yooo, I'm knocked up," isn't treated like a default occurrence in male characters' stories, nor, more importantly, in actual men's lives.

[(Anonymous)]

So you'd also be squicked by m-preg in omegaverse fic? Because in those it's even more likely for characters to get pregnant eventually, much more so than in het stories.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. Because if you haven't noticed, omegaverse is not, in and of itself, ubiquitous - which is kind of the point of my initial comment. The omegaverse is not the fictional standard universe, and every story is not an omegaverse story. The omegaverse is a niche that exists specifically to create a context in which certain kinks and tropes can exist - and mpreg is one of those kinks/tropes. And men in the omegaverse are still men, regardless of it being a weird fantasy AU with secondary genders.

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You bet! It's one of the biggest reasons why omegaverse is squicky to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Makes sense to me. I don't mind women being pregnant in stories; in fact I wrote a fanfic that was about a canon female character getting pregnant and having a baby. (Which was not horrible but also was not fun, painless or easy either) and still I can completely understand the appeal of mpreg. Maybe the weepiness is being suggested in the story as a symptom of pregnancy hormones?