Posted on 06/06/2014 4:46:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
The feminist film critics can exhale now. Someone has finally concocted their dream movie: an "abortion comedy." Because apparently nothing sounds funnier than an unplanned one-night stand and a courageous destruction of God's most beautiful and most innocent creation.
It's called "Obvious Child." Feminist lingo sells this monstrosity. Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Jenny Slate plays Donna Stern, a standup comedian who "is forced to face the uncomfortable realities of independent womanhood for the first time." A "drunken hookup -- and epic lapse in prophylactic judgment -- turns out to be the beginning of a hilarious and totally unplanned journey of self-discovery and empowerment."
Rolling Stone magazine described one scene of allegedly hilarious "empowerment" between female characters. "You're going to kill it," Donna's best friend Nellie says before a standup comedy set the night before her abortion. "Tomorrow I am," Donna replies, and "the two unravel in sheepish giggles."
If America laughs at this, America is beyond redemption.
The New York Times hailed how the film doesn't veer from a righteous feminist path. Donna does not consult the man who impregnated her, even though she likes him, and she "never wavers on her course of action." The cameras accompany her into the Planned Parenthood clinic for the execution.
The filmmakers consulted with Planned Parenthood to make the film "accurate," at least to abortion-loving feminists. They filmed at their abortion mill in New Rochelle, New York.
The director, Gillian Robespierre, announced with pride, "We knew the conflict wasn't going to be 'Will she or won't she?' I've already seen the movie where somebody's torturing themselves over the decision." A moral dilemma? A stay of execution? "That's the formula we were fighting against. We're just so brainwashed to believe that's what a happy ending is."
Feminists have been grumpy for years about movies like "Juno" and "Knocked Up" sending a pro-life message. Slate, the film's star, argued: "a woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare." She added, "I've had women say to me: 'Thank you. I was feeling guilty for not feeling guilty.'"
In politics, abortion advocates love to fight about the rare exceptions: the rape, the incest, the late diagnosis of Down syndrome or disabilities. But this movie displays the much more typical abortion. It's a clumsy episode of casual sex between strangers, followed by a violent vacuum pump "cleanup" at Planned Parenthood.
The abortion, in fact, is pitched as a moment of maturity, authenticity, bravery and resolve. "Donna finds out along the way what it means to be as brave in life as she is on stage," the publicity materials claim. There's not really a death so much, just a moment of personal growth.
Of course, to sell the movie, they oddly claim this abortion-advocating movie doesn't have an agenda. "Our film is not an agenda movie in any way," Slate told Rolling Stone. "The whole point is that women have this procedure, and they should have it safely, and it's a part of life. It doesn't have to be this giant obelisk sticking out." That is not an agenda, no siree.
A little murder is a part of life. A little life matters not at all.
Feminists like these movie-makers don't see a moral dilemma. They see abortion as a natural part of the daily grind. You wake up, you get an abortion, you have a cheeseburger. The critics call this a "refreshing matter-of-factness" about abortion.
It can also be described as feminist nihilism. The selfishness and autonomy of the woman is paramount, and the accidental baby is just cannon fodder. When the murder of the innocents is celebrated as comedy, civil society is destroyed.
The baby was later released. Not sure if he’ll face trial. Not a very compelling witness.
It’s already been done.
Citizen Ruth (1996)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Ruth
Citizen Ruth is a 1996 comedy film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne. The film is the directorial debut of Payne. It stars Laura Dern in the title role of a poor, irresponsible and pregnant woman who unexpectedly attracts attention from those involved in the debate about the morality and legality of abortion.
As of 2014, Citizen Ruth remains to be the only Alexander Payne-directed film not nominated for any Academy Awards.
It already has. 50 million Americans have been systematically murdered. That's even higher than what the Weather Underground figured it would take to effect social revolution in America.
50 million dead Americans. So when 30 million persons come from the southern border with no regard for laws (immigation, privacy, personal identity protections, taxes, voting, etc.), they don't "bloat" the system.
In England the Leftist (lesbian) politicians are saying that open border immigration is the only way to keep the tax coffers filled with the "natives" not replenishing the headcount as older generations die off.
Idiocracy is here.
Too self-centered, too eternally immature to raise the next generation of life in this country.
The history and traditions are fading away because the new people coming here didn't grow up with them and those who are here don't care to pass it along./I
Didn’t a foreign “comedy” about the Holocaust win an Oscar awhile back?
I unplugged from television in 2008. The ads (political, biased news breaks, movie ads, tv ads, etc.) even for things I was “not watching” became too pervasive. It would still hit the subconscious even if it was met with up front “rejection”.
I still watch movies and even a rare tv show, but on my terms, on DVD.
I don’t let the crass liberal corporate culture push the liberal agenda on me at every turn.
Another poster mentioned the “free Rolling Stone” issues for buying a ticket, Best Buy used to try that same sort of thing (free 6 issue magazine subscriptions for making a purchase). Free isn’t always free. It’s hyped nonsense owned by the parent company. It isn’t impartial journalism.
Why gophers, particularly?
because they hurt and kill horses and cattle, and otherwise ruin the land.
They reproduce like mad, and eat their own, and they make good marksmanship practice.
The livestock steps in the holes and legs and ankles etc are broken.
The liberal modern women here like “Sex in the City”
Bimbos picking losers to hook up with then meeting over coffee or wine to bitch about them.
Okay, thanks. I just wondered.
Life is Beautiful
“Life Is Beautiful”
So “ funny” I forgot it - thanks for the information. I’ve never seen it, never will.
Well, since there’s precedent set, maybe this bimbo can enter her abortion movie for Oscar consideration?!
Mass murder is mass murder, regardless of the setting.
Too bad great story of father trying to protect his son from horrors. Your loss
I keep forgetting that my way is not better than God’s way.
I would like to see God’s people rise up and start cracking skulls, then the irony sets in.
Sex and the City: Gave susceptible women a completely and totally delusional opinion of both themselves and their value. They think they are princesses, entitled to what they consider ‘the best’, regardless of how gross, socially inept or just plain defective they really are.
That show is and was destructive to American society.
Yep. My “loss”.
“empowerment” is killing babies?
I am not claiming to be an expert as I couldn't tolerate more than a few minutes of that show at a time, but were the men they hooked up with good catches and they (the bimbos) just too ..ed up to appreciate them(the men) ?
Or did they pick losers?
This...and
Rolling Stone magazine described one scene of allegedly hilarious "empowerment" between female characters
show how hardened and far from God they are.
The funny parts are the stories the father is telling his son to try to give him something to have other then the nightmares that surround them.
The only movie I can ever say that gave me such a "punched in the gut" feeling was Mister Roberts.
I never made it thru a complete episode, so I don’t know.
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