Mom and Dad are One and the Same: Male Pregnancy … the New Oedipus
Posted by Dale Kuehne on January 9, 2017
2017 has arrived, as has Male pregnancy.
Who’s next?
One wonder how Ray Stephens might have written this song in 2017,
Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed
This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my life
For now my daughter was my mother, ’cause she was my father’s wife
And to complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow’s grownup daughter, who was of course my step-mother
Father’s wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter’s son
My wife is now my mother’s mother and it makes me blue
Because although she is my wife, she’s my grandmother too
Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I’m her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
‘Cause now I have become the strangest ‘case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa
I’m my own grandpa, I’m my own grandpa
It sounds funny, I know but it really is so
I’m my own grandpa
I am my Own Grandpa from Cracking’ Up by Ray Stevens (1987)
Signpostings 
Robert Franklin said
I read this same article. What does it mean to be a ‘man’ if a homo sapiens transitioning from woman to man does something inherently ‘female’ (bear a child) which requires an inherently ‘male’ contribution (sperm). The whole ‘spectrum’ or ‘non-binary’ term would be better suited to this article. I guess first ‘non-binary’ human in UK to give birth doesn’t provide quite the click bait desired.
On a related note, the National Public Radio editors are now inserting the line ‘gender assigned at birth’ into all discussion regarding the transgender issue. The hypocrisy of this is spectacular. We can talk about advanced DNA testing in utero, but are clueless regarding gender ‘until assigned at birth’ or, as it is now the case, until a child informs the world which gender, if any, with which the child wishes to be identified.