"You going to keep it in a box?": Or, why I can't cope with mpreg

[celandineb]

We watched The Life of Brian several days ago and I realized that this is the scene that pops into my head every time I run into an mpreg story.

Stan: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But you can't have babies.
Stan: Don't you oppress me.
Reg: I'm not oppressing you, Stan -- you haven't got a womb. Where's the fetus

Comments

[jelazakazone]

Sorry to hear about the car. I hope you get to yoga. I'm so excited to get to go to yoga tomorrow (provided my fever doesn't disrupt life...)

Sorry to hear about the headache. Wish there was some magic bullet I could tell you about that would help. Is it a migraine? If so, you can try sniffing peppermint oil or extract.

[celandineb]

I have the car back, unfixed. They've ordered the necessary (and, of course, expensive) part and it might be in tomorrow, so that if I can get the car in to them by 4 it would be fixed; otherwise, not till next Tuesday. *sigh*

But at least I will get to yoga tonight. One small good thing today, about the only one.

Not a migraine - I don't get migraines. Just one of the Truly Evil Headaches I seem to get every several months or so. Tylenol and/or Advil helps some, unfortunately not enough.

[a_d_medievalist]

Alleve works better than advil for me, but anything works better with a nice cup of strong, sweet, tea. The caffeine really does help -- excedrin migraine is also pretty good, although it doesn't work for my migraines.

The one mpreg story that worked for me was in a recent Sheri Tepper book -- Maybe "The Visitor?" a couple of years ago. And it was the circumstances that made it work, rather than the physical explanation ...

[celandineb]

Yeah, I get caffeine headaches sometimes too, but it's not helping much this time. :-(

I've read a fair number of Sheri Tepper's books, but not that one. Have to look for it sometime and see if she can convince me. There are fandoms in which it might be workable, I imagine, just none that I read - magic in HP can only go so far and still be believable. There are things that magic can't do, like directly conquer death, for instance, and for me mpreg is definitely one of those things. Just ain't nowhere for that darned fetus to gestate, y'know?

[a_d_medievalist]

I've just remembered something -- it also probably works for Tepper because the fetuses are alien. The men chosen as hosts are those public figures most opposed to birth control and abortion, on the theory (the aliens having observed us for a while) that these are the humans most likely to preserve life ;-)

[celandineb]

I've always thought that men should have very little if any voice in the whole debate. It's not their bodies and lives at stake in the same way.

[a_d_medievalist]

Works for me!