BL male pregnancy rant
I swear to God, every time I decide to read a historical fantasy or any supernatural/fantasy BL, it always ends with fucking pregnancy. I try to tiptoe around it, double-check to make sure there’s no pregnancy plot, and guess what? IT'S STILL END WITH PREGNANCY! And the authors give zero indication it’s going to happen. It's always something random like, “Oh, there’s this man/family who makes potions or pills to get men pregnant,” or, “Me sucking your blood will make you pregnant.” Like, this comes out of nowhere in the fucking 70th chapter! Sometimes they don’t even bother with an explanation—just, “Oh, by the way, he’s pregnant.”
And the MC? No reaction. Like, dude, you thought this was impossible, and now it’s happening, and you’re just… chill about it? Even women have mixed reactions to pregnancy—fear, horror, or just processing what’s happening—but these MCs are always like, “Meh.”
Supporting authors on T A P P Y T O O N S is a nightmare, especially if you’re from a third-world country. Companies couldn’t care less about us because they know we don’t have the money to pay for the stuff that we see on ads, so they don’t even give us those damn ads. I have to use a damn VPN that keeps disconnecting—it’s literal torture. And when I finally manage to scrape together enough to buy all the chapters of a manhwa I like (because I want to support authors who make BLs with actual plots), it all ends in male pregnancy!
The only time I felt good about my purchase was with Her ShimCheong. Everything else? A scam. I had to drop so many series because of that damn male pregnancy trope.
Let’s be real: BLs with male pregnancy are mostly heteronormative. It’s this idea of “You can’t be happy without kids,” so authors shove babies into the story out of nowhere. And don’t hit me with the “But men can get pregnant” excuse. THEN THEY DO THAT, why is it always a cis man? Oh, I know why—because most BL fans are transphobic, and authors won’t touch trans characters with a ten-foot pole.
I would love to read and support BLs with trans men, but let's be honest that will never happen the author will get shit for that. Male pregnancy keeps happening in BL because of society’s obsession with the “You need kids to be happy” narrative. There’s nothing deep about it—it’s just another heteronormative idea that society likes to push and people follow it like sheep.
