You know what amazed me most? That this show managed to be so neutral about abortion in a time when it wasn't even legal. I mean, it would be SO EASY to say, "Oh, that's just how things were," to excuse a negative portrayal of abortion (um, kind of like how they deal with PoC?), but the show doesn't fall into that trap.
And yeah, for real, somebody's giving Joan sugar pills or something.
YES I have never seen that before, I don't think. Apparently a Friday Night Lights character had a neutral, not the end of the world abortion, but the fact that I don't even watch that show and I know that says something about abortion stigma in entertainment.
If anything Mad Men shows a sanitized picture of pre-Roe America. Justified by the fact that it's New York and they're wealthy people, so it's probably true to life, but knowing just what a nightmare that could've been for any of them....urgh.
Oh Joan. Maybe her doctor wouldn't refill the prescription while Dr. Shithead is gone? Still, she is a resourceful lady. There is some weird shit there.
Yeah... well, the FNL abortion started out neutral, lol, until the father's parents turned out to be religious loonies who were furious that some teenager killed their grandbaby and decided to get the school principal fired for merely talking (in a completely neutral way) to the girl who got the abortion. So, all objectivity pretty much went out the window at that point... but at least it was pro-choice?
....and now I have no interest in watching it. I don't know if that's a realistic thing wherever the show takes place, but whoa. How is this WHOLE TOWN up in this girl's cervix? Ugh.
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And yeah, for real, somebody's giving Joan sugar pills or something.
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If anything Mad Men shows a sanitized picture of pre-Roe America. Justified by the fact that it's New York and they're wealthy people, so it's probably true to life, but knowing just what a nightmare that could've been for any of them....urgh.
Oh Joan. Maybe her doctor wouldn't refill the prescription while Dr. Shithead is gone? Still, she is a resourceful lady. There is some weird shit there.
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