Hollywood, in it's success with unplanned pregger chicks, seems to forget that abortion is a legal, viable option for women. It also seems to think that unplanned pregnancies are funny, quirky and romantic. Couple this with all the bored actress/singers having offspring.
This isn't reality and I know Hollywood isn't in the business of highlighting reality, but all these recent movies about women getting pregnant, out of wed-lock and with little options makes it seem as if it will always work out. For a real world girl like me, it's troublesome.
In this article, two real women talk about these movies and their personal experience as pregnant women, movie-goers and abortion. They make some valid points about the fallacies that many of these story lines and contrasts them with the real world and how the taboo subject of abortion is often dusted over in celluloid.
Not to mention the stereotypical portrayal of men in these films as stupid or absentee fathers/jerks/assholes...a point I almost overlooked. (See how patriarchy hurts everyone?)
Point being: I am over the Hollywood baby propoganda. Over it.
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See, I loved Juno for many reasons, one of which was the fact that they didn't brush over the abortion thing. She just changed her mind. If all things were equal in this world (which we know they are not) the movie standing on its own wouldn't be anti-abortion. It's just that it happens to be with a bunch of other movies that glorify getting knocked up.
And in Juno, unlike in Knocked Up for example, she does do the adoption thing and it's a good sub-storyline about a woman desperately wanting to be a mother but unable to be in any other manner.
after reading the article more carefully, I do agree with their assessment on one thing in Juno--that your first love will be the best. but we just assume that to be the rest of the story--it's not necessarily so.
Her changing her mind is the problem. show an abortion. just show it. the last time i saw a story with abortion and the aftermath was Fast Times at Ridgemont High and that was the 80's. And the reality is, adoption is not a first nor even a second choice and it isn't all fairytale endings.
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