I donât think I have too many precedents for what Iâm about to say but the whole âgruff guy who finds a kid becomes a begrudging parentâ always never worked w a woman bc she would never be depicted gruff enough and even if she did itâs weird to force motherhood on a woman whoâs gender nonconforming and also itâs funnier doing that to a guy bc societal repercussions irl make that more appealing to the masses bc of gap moe (you know what I mean). It isnât gap moe to fulfill gender roles I guess
That being said, I think thereâs definitely a through line here where thereâs a young woman (usually) thrust upon motherhood with something inhuman/beast like as well. This feels like it could date back historically even before all this hot buzzy media trope of âsexy masculine man as dadâ was even a thing but yeah. Rosemaryâs Baby is kind of huge with this tho you donât get that relationship until the very end when she sees her baby. And I guess Iâm thinking specifically of I Want to Hold Aono-Kun where *spoiler* that green baby thing shows up, metaphorically or not.
I think the main thing here is a juxtaposition of the Madonna and child here. Whereas both are young beautiful and ârightâ (politically, societally) if one was exchanged with something off [masculine non-traditional father is equivalent to the motherâs beastly child here lol] then we get that trope in the reversed gender.
Something awesome which we havenât seen yet is what I mentioned above w the gruff woman having a child but again I would need that to be extremely layered to work without being super misogynistic