If men, as well as women, could physically have children, how do you think that would change our dynamic?

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Flatmanlewis · Accepted Answer

Well, this is kind of a loaded question because it short changes the actual dynamic as if the discomfort of pregnancy is the only thing actually changing: Men could get pregnant so how would men change society because of this? This implies the giant scary “patriarchy” is running the show and therefore would make changes that coddle to them which currently don’t happen for women.

However, if things really did change so the male/masculine were the ones getting pregnant does this equally mean women would take over those tasks almost universally dominated by males now? Would we expect to see women working away from home for weeks or months on end as commercial fishermen? (Fisherwomen?) Producing the energy we use on deep sea oil platforms, coal mines, and gas production? Would they take over firefighting, military combat units, construction, Highway maintenance, and such? Would women accept that nearly 8 times as many of them would die at work as they currently do?

Sure - women endure a lot for the beauty of creating life but never lose sight that men & women equally endure their own share of a burden that the other doesn’t.

wiltingrosepetal · Accepted Answer

Maternal leave would be mandatory, abortions would be less scrutinised, and everyone would be on the pill.

Realistically though, if this was our world, women would still be expected to birth the child. Maybe 30-20% of pregnancies would be carried by men

TheeTrybrid · Accepted Answer

They’d have more respect for their bodies and want abortion to be legalized again 😂😂😂

TheRealPepperPotts · Answer

Please note: I am going to use some terminology here to avoid another topic/discussion. My use of this terminology is not representative of my personal perspective on trangenderism. It is simply to avoid being sidetracked or someone taking offense.

It isn't physically possible for this to happen in men, which I assume most people understand. AFAB who transition and then become pregnant are not AMAB having a baby, they are AFAB who have transitioned, and then decided to become pregnant. If it theoretically became possible, so few men would do it that it would be irrelevant.

However, if it had always been something men could do, then they would be designed to do it, and they would be women. Childbirth wouldn't come as a shock because again, it would be normal. However, that begs the question: How would pregnancy happen without the male? Because otherwise, humanity would have ceased to exist. If, theoretically, there was a way for women to become pregnant without men, the earth would be only one sex.

RetroAlpha · Answer

Controversial take, here...

If men could also get pregnant, we probably wouldn't put up with women anymore. At all. I'm pretty sure most guys are tired of being blamed for the evils of less than 5% of our gender.

Some of us would just artificially fertilize. Some of us would isolate from women. Some would actively ostracize or even harm women.

I, for one, would probably still have women as friends, but I certainly wouldn't cohabitate with one.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Answer

Abortion would be an uncontested right. All forms of birth control would be free of charge by law nationwide. There wouldn’t be any issues of victim blaming in cases of assault and rape. Male rape would be taken much more seriously and it would never be a case of “he probably liked it” and predators would be recognized for exactly what they are regardless of gender. I imagine male predator counts would also be way, way down.

HawkPerception · Answer

Men can do pretty much everything physically better than women other than actions that require flexibility. If anything, if men could have kids as well, women would not even be needed to have society and they would be reduced to sex objects, more so than they already are.

Bagerl · Answer

It would certainly equal a few things out, like bias and prejudices in home and work life. Suddenly a lot of people would realize that a womb doesn't make you hysterical, and a penis doesn't make you invulnerable. Laws and society could maybe finally adapt to accommodate both equally.

normalice · Answer

There would be no way to distinguish between genders and so we'd just assign the weakest to the task since they would be the least helpful in hunting anyway. Eventually, an evolutionary advantage would develop for these weaker people that favors their ability to care for the young while evolutionary advantages for the strong emerge that favors their ability to hunt.

Oh wait..

patois · Answer

Clearly you wouldn't be a sexually reproductive organism if there are no sexes. Sex wouldn't exist for you. You probably wouldn't communicate with one another either because there is no reason to build relationships. Furthermore, you probably wouldn't have legs, because you wouldn't need to move around to meet other organisms like you in order to reproduce. You'd be a plant and just sit in the dirt making clones of yourself that grow out of your ass when the weather isn't terrible.

AviatorTom · Answer

My buy buddies and I sometimes have discussions about this. The only way men would ever get pregnant and produce a baby is if the pregnancy lasted no more than 48 hours, and labor was 5 minutes... max. We guys don't know how you women put up with a creature growing inside you for 9 months, and then take up to 24 hours of constant pain to deliver a baby. Our hats are off to women!

82lynx · Answer

The queers would be on that bandwagon like ants on a picnic lunch.

Incidentally, I started watching Junior (1994) shortly before I saw this question. Props to the Governator for being willing to take on the role of a pregnant man for the sake of comedy, as opposed to making a political statement.

Pohjolan · Answer

If we talk about biology then that would be a way more far reaching change in history than Hitler getting accepted to art school.

Artificial wombs and robots with artificial wombs however will be a thing in the future within the next 1000 years which will help reducing declining birth rates.

Unless if Islam has taken over before then.

At3mis24 · Answer

If men can be pregnant, that's clear for me: it will never change my mind about not having kids, because it's not only pregnancy that I fear, I'm sure I'm not able to rise a kid (I have ADHD and autistic issues)

Xayatot · Answer

That means that men would have the organs necessary for that. Then men would do it just fine. Better than women actually since there are thousands of pains especially during wars that are worse than childbirth and are only experienced by men and not women. Not to mention since we men are bigger, our organs would be bigger as well and it would be tiny bit easier to pop a baby out. Men don’t cry about little things as women do.

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

Seeing a woman pregnant is beautiful while seeing a man with his hands like this over his belly makes me disgusted... God made women to get pregnant!

ManInChains · Answer

If men could get pregnant the same as women, and it were considered common and natural instead of uncommon and unnatural, it would change the whole pro choice argument quite a bit.

RossyBoi · Answer

It wouldn't make any difference. Most people nowadays are choosing not to have children, that's why the reproduction rate is so low. At this rate the human race will become extinct within the next 1,700 years.

IslaTheWitch · Answer

come on... common flu is a man's killer and you want them go throught the child birth? undoable :D

codytoe · Answer

Of coarse! I'm guessing you mean were it a total craps shoot as to wither the male or female became pregnant? For one I think the man-cold would not longer exist because anyone who can handle giving birth is tough enough to ignore a cold or flu!)

jahaims · Answer

Duh. If I try to drive a car with no tires will it change how things work. That is how stupid of a question it was. Changing something fundamental is obviously going to change other things as well.

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Sure, just like if women had to go to war and do all the dangerous jobs in the world, but this isn't reality.

MsProsperity · Answer

Men will stop sleeping around and women will get to choose to stay with the pregnant man or leave him. Families will be stable

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

Having a womb and vagina would make them female, so they would not be men unless they were hermaphrodites and thus are both. What dynamic?

John_Cobretti · Answer

Women will be the one still being mostly pregnant since most households have men as the primary bread winner , so the pregnancy would be the woman's role

thegreenyogi · Answer

I think it would be pretty empowering for women because finally men would get a taste of what we women have to experience.

jshm2 · Answer

It would be the end of the human race.  Women have a different pelvis to men and a different genetic makeup.

Purpleronnie · Answer

What a bizarre thought , and how would the men get pregnant? 😂

DrPepper12 · Answer

It would make "Enemy Mine" an even better flick than it already is!!  We would probably be halfway to alpha centauri by now if there was only one gender.

SotiCoto · Answer

You're talking about the #1 thing that defines what it means to be female. Men can't do that because then they wouldn't be men. Simple as that.

Raaj4you · Answer

It's not possible. Men can't impregnate themselves. If it happens then we don't need girls / women, love, dating, wedding, sex. A lot of time, money can be saved without girls/ women. Men can't produce sperms and eggs at the same time.

ProbablyClueless · Answer

I don't think we would basically put up with each other anymore, unfortunately. I think that would be the death of relationships.

HelpfulWoman · Answer

-Abortions would be readily accessible to men and encouraged

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

Assuming we'd get to keep our testosterone level and continue to be the one's who have to do the hunting and building, women would be obsolete. But if not, we'd just basically be another women

grega239 · Answer

Women would be reduced to sex objects or made obsolete entirely

Bricealan · Answer

Well, they can,,,,,,,,, Arnold was knocked up !!!

Unit1 · Answer

This doesn't change anything for me. Girls do not like me and getting sterilized is redundant.

genericname85 · Answer

i think many societies would have WAY more children like that. cause there's so many gay and lesbian and sexually confused people.

I_am_a_human · Answer

I suspect women would be treated better because guys would have first hand experience what is like to be woman (have period, get pregnant).

Anonymous · Answer

The world would be over populated, but with men only going through it once.. if they make it the whole way.

thisAppIsGarbage · Answer

It's already happened. we have artificial wombs and men pretending to be women. More than half the world can't even define women. They are obsolete.

Cubus · Answer

I thought that men can have children if they identify as such.

serious_miss419 · Answer

Men wouldn’t be able to! It would take over 5,000 years for this to even work.

Anonymous · Answer

heck yeah! no more unjust court decisions, giving the whore of a woman all the man's money for "child support". :D

Charliefretz329 · Answer

We would ruin the concept that childbirth is the hardest thing on earth.

PreferNot2Say · Answer

Screwing with God's creations can only end badly.

Anonymous · Answer

Seeing as how birthing children is really all women bring to the table…. Women would be even more useless

TycheKairos · Answer

There would be equality between men and women.

lightbulb27 · Answer

that totally mess up the NFL playoffs.

Drumlin2001 · Answer

It would stop women using kids as a weapon.

CrabCakes11 · Answer

Men wouldn’t be such wusses

Booklover_90 · Answer

There would be less people on Earth. 😅

Filthy_Immigrant · Answer

yet more reasons not to start a damn family

Sofie1994 · Answer

They complain about cramping and bloating.

DishLady · Answer

🤣🤣🤣 my goodness…

handsomelad70 · Answer

Yes.

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