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[mercuryglass]

hey! give me one good reason to keep a baby from a shitty one night stand and raise it with someone you hate enough in the light of sobriety that you can't even stand to finish breakfast with them the next morning, and i'll tell you if i got my 40 cents worth from knocked up.

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[mercuryglass]

my main beef with the relationship between rogen & heigel's characters isn't because hers is model-beautiful & successful and his is an overweight & unemployed slacker, but that she was clearly ONLY dating him because he impregnated her. she couldn't stand him sober, even walked out on a meal with him. so why date him? unless you're really steadfast into this abortion-is-murder nuclear-families-are-right thing. boys are not cars or houses, they aren't fixer-uppers that you purchase to improve. (& girls don't hate fun, and shouldn't have to bear the emotional responsibility for the whole relationship.)

i don't think i would have had as much of a problem with that if they'd explained it, because then it would have been obvious, opened up the possibility for debate, instead of this underlying assumed morality thing. that's what made me see it as conservative-family-values propaganda. they went over every other thing in their relationship AND her sister's in melodramatic detail (which dragged on the pace of the movie & ate up a lot of useful joke time), why not the abortion? (other than to keep the flick from being protested by pro-choicers.)