Response thread for Fandom Problem #13,600:
(Currently 2 replies with 7 sub-replies and 1 sub-sub-reply)
Reply 1 - Anon
Idc how natural it is, pregnancy is body horror, especially forced pregnancy, and I WILL tag it as such. There's no difference between a parasite and a fetus beyond potential emotional attachment and potential to become a baby after a birth and a real person once personality and non-instinctual desires and dislikes begin to develop, and both being in your body, permanently changing and disfiguring it, highjacking and stealing your resources even if means deprivating you of them and affecting your health (teeth lost/bone decay, hair loss, vision loss, etc), and putting you through bloody torture to get it out is body horror like no other. I don't care if you have kink for pregnancy, if you have had a pregnancy and was fine with the experience, it still is a deeply horrifying state of objectification and dehumanizing into a vessel unable to control the digusting thing invading your body without outside intervention or risking your own life to finally expel it. I would kill myself if I ever got pregnant and couldn't immediately abort the beast, that's how much it terrifies me. It being natural doesn't make it any less horrific. It's a horror of the body, body horror, die mad about it.
Reply 1A - Anon
Agreed with the first anon. Why can we talk freely about the horrors of cancer, the way the body disintegrates when it comes to degenerative diseases, but the moment we talk about the ways pregnancy does horrific things to the body (see: body horror), suddenly we become hysterical bitches who should just nicely get pregnant and not fear the awful things that can and do happen to us?
Reply 1B - Anon
Holy shit, anon, you really, really to seek out therapy. We're not in the Handmaids Tale. No one other than disgusting, horrendous rapists are going around forcibly impregnating people. You really need to step back from all that radfem bullshit for a while. You can dislike and outright detest pregnancy, but millions of women go through pregnancy every year. It's a natural process. Do you get triggered when seeing a woman pregnant while out in society? I'm genuinely asking. Because otherwise you're wanting them to cover up and hide, or even stop being pregnant, which is a truly disturbing mindset to have.
Reply 1C - Anon
Are we seriously going to get over the whole "is NATURAL pregnancy body horror" debate again? It was already discussed about problems ago... As per Wikipedia:
Body horror, or biological horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction that intentionally showcases grotesque or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body or of another creature. These violations may manifest through aberrant sex, mutations, mutilation, zombification, gratuitous violence, disease, or unnatural movements of the body.
While I understand some might find disturbing or aren't comfortable with (again NATURAL) pregnancy, I don't see how it falls into the body horror category. At most, it's a wonder of nature.
Reply 1D - Anon
Im with Anon 1. Even if it doesn't "technically" count (🤢), I hope talking about the risks and side effects and complications of pregnancy in a bosy horror adjacent context dispels the weird rosy narrative that makes it sound like mothers are coming into goddess hood or whatever.
Reply 1E - Anon
Anon1 is definitely not someone to be trusted around other women, especially pregnant women. That mindset is so incredibly toxic and dangerous. Imagine having such vile loathing toward other women simply because they are pregnant. Millions of women around the world want to be pregnant. They want to have children of their own. Society wouldn't exist with pregnancy. You can dislike the mere notion of pregnancy all you want, but stop with the vile misogyny.
Reply 1F - Anon
The absolute irony of likening pregnancy to cancer. Since we're getting all personal here, let me tell you how I had cancer of the uterus, the feeling of being rejected by your own body, to have your body eat you alive, about the months of chemo i had to endure, far longer than any pregnancy would be. The constant nausea, the weight loss, the loss of hair, the total and complete lack of energy. Where it finally reached a point where a hysterectomy was my only chice. At 23. I will never get pregnant. I will never have children of my own. That choice was taken away from me. And despite not having a uterus, I'm still under the threat of developing cancer somewhere else. Against my will. If i had to choose between cancer or being pregnant, I'd choose to be pregnant. Don't you fucking dare refer to pregnancy as cancer. Cancer is the worst thing to happen to a human body.
Reply 2 - Anon
I may be stupid because I might need some clarification here. Is this post referring to hanahaki disease? Because the first thing that comes to mind for me reading "That flowers out of the mouth trend? Body horror." is Tuxedo Mask holding a rose in his mouth with a body horror tag and body horror enthusiasts getting really annoyed or something like that. 💀😭 Definitely agree hanahaki constitutes body horror though.
Reply 2A - Anon
I don't know, but a while back, there was a lot of characters drawn where living flowers had sprouted from their mouths to the point of covering their mouths completely, it was usually depicted as some peaceful thing but it was fucked up if you thought about how those flowers worked and where they rooted and if the characters could even talk or breathe, and if there were also flowers going all the way down their throats (fhfjkfkfkdl nope nope). It wasn't really a face-value "illness" or "gross-out" type thing but it still read as body horror.
Reply 2A.1 - Anon
this is Anon2. Oh. 😅 I am definitely stupid then because I always thought they were just holding the flowers with their teeth and not that the flowers were actually growing from their teeth. 💀Taking notes for future tagging. Thank you for the explanation! !! Also good lord what is happening in there👉@ Anon1