Oh, for God's sake.

[apocalypsos]

Why am I reading the IMDb boards for Knocked Up? First off, the post saying that Katherine Heigl's gotten fat compared to when she was fourteen made me want to install a "Punch An Idiot" button on my laptop.

A.) Women do tend to gain weight between the time they're fourteen and their twenties. It's called growing an ass and some breasts.
B.) I can't remember if Katie Heigl's a size six or a size eight, but as someone who hovers between both sizes, SHUT UP.

And then there's the posts saying this is a horror movie for women because they have to spend the rest of their lives tied to that fat dirty slob (not an exact quote, but I think I captured the general ambiance), that she should have just gotten an abortion (Movie's new running time: Twenty minutes), and my personal favorite -- that sex before marriage is WRONG. To which I say, "Dude, without sex before marriage some of us wouldn't be here." One particular parroting of that opinion also added that having babies out of wedlock should be less acceptable in society and ... again, if it were less acceptable some of us wouldn't be here. (Not that I'm saying everybody should run out and get knocked up, but seriously, if my grandparents hadn't been awesome beyond the telling of it when my mom got pregnant God only knows where the hell I'd be right now.)

I can only imagine how wanky the 40-Year-Old Virgin boards were when that came out, especially considering there was a comment on the Knocked Up boards that Steve Carell was obviously waiting for marriage in that movie. *eye roll*

Damn it, I need sleep and I can't because I've got this ridiculously annoying insomnia right now. I think the last time I slept was five o'clock yesterday. ARGH.

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[fox1013.livejournal.com]

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They did NOT insult the hotness that is Seth Rogen.

THEY DID NOT.

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid to ask this, but how much more puritanical can this country get?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. *nods*

Although I was really glad that somebody popped up to say, "Would you prefer a guy who's rich and handsome but treats her like shit, runs out on her and the kid, and is never seen again?"

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Government-sponsored chastity belts?

Maybe I shouldn't have said that out loud. They might take that as a good suggestion.

[siberian-skys.livejournal.com]

I feel the resurrection of Cotton Mather coming on.

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

Blah. The closeminded idiots on that board shouldn't be allowed to have sex. EVER. *foul mood from vacation cold*

[pushingyouaway.livejournal.com]

saying that Katherine Heigl's gotten fat compared to when she was fourteen made me want to install a "Punch An Idiot" button on my laptop.

you? are my hero. seriously


*gives you ten-tier cake*

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the "reach through the screen and slap the idiot" option hasn't been invented yet.

Film sounds funny to me. My kid's out of marriage and I take the piss out of how he got here all the time. (My parents adore the fact that I'm not married. There's no one to interfere with them and their grandchild.)

We had the following convo the other night "Mum, were you a prostitute?"

"No, son, I gave it away." My family parents were fucking killing themselves.

Club together on that "Punch an Idiot" button?

[florahart]

And then there's the posts saying this is a horror movie for women because they have to spend the rest of their lives tied to that fat dirty slob (not an exact quote, but I think I captured the general ambiance), that she should have just gotten an abortion

...Okay, so to sum up, when people say "pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion," (because, reasonably, pro-choice groups don't want to come across as saying abortion is a tidy cheerful inconsequential form of birth control, but rather that it should be one of many options available to women) these folks think they're kinda wrong? I mean, I dunno. I had a kid well underway when I got married, so yes, I have been unmarried and pregnant, and I was somehow under the impression my having a choice meant I ...had a choice, and that ideally which one I made wouldn't be subject to the condemnation of the law or society at large. Crazy.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

OK, I admit I had to wiki that name but oh am I ever glad I did. With hair like that how did he not feel the urge to change his name by deep poll, maybe he was just glad he wasn't named after his father.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

That'd be Deed Poll. oops.

[fyrdrakken]

The thing I "love" about these complaints against unwed motherhood is that they take into account neither A) the fact that sometimes it really is better to be a single mother than to be shackled to this particular guy who just happened to have gotten her pregnant, B) the deliberately increasing difficulties in obtaining abortions (and emergency contraception) in this country and others, nor C) the fact that societal disapproval of unwed motherhood in prior centuries and decades didn't mean that there were no illegitimate children: Just that everyone felt free to treat the children like the dregs of society and their mothers as worse. And I am not liking any push back towards strengthening of the whore/madonna standard of womanhood that remains far too strong in this society to this day.