There’s really something wrong with Joss Whedon, and we’re not just saying that after having seen his short film dramatizing the horrors that would face women were Planned Parenthood to be defunded.
“Unlocked” shows what three women have to endure in an unnaturally blue-tinted world where the government has “shut down” Planned Parenthood. And older woman dies of breast cancer; a younger woman cries a lot when she finds out she’s pregnant and apparently can’t go away to college; and a school girl contracts an STD.
Planned Parenthood has been around for 100 years. Here’s to fighting for the next 100. Or even not having to. #StandWithPP pic.twitter.com/sjaqtTWBFM
— Joss Whedon (@joss) May 17, 2017
It’s more important than ever to #StandWithPP. Thank you @JOSS Whedon for using your talent to fight back! https://t.co/gWiyl5xSP7
— Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) May 17, 2017
Thank him for using his directing talent rather than his, um, unique comedy stylings.
https://twitter.com/jeromejayjerome/status/864845588344516608
On the plus side, “Unlocked” isn’t as bad as “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” But we found it difficult to tear up watching the woman die of cancer knowing that Whedon had not too long ago taken a cheap shot at Paul Ryan by using a photo of childhood cancer survivors for his prop comedy routine. (He eventually deleted the tweet.)
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/857736561890349056
Entertainment outlets like EW were happy to reprint Whedon’s statement on Planned Parenthood word-for-word, quoting him as saying “anyone trying to shut it down is committing an act of evil. It’s not just inhumane — it’s inhuman.”
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“I just wanted to remind those of us with some humanity still stirring how much is at stake,” he added. Again, we’d be touched if we didn’t know Whedon’s sense of humanity includes wishing that Ryan (again) would be raped to death by a rhinoceros. Maybe the Planned Parenthood peer educator in his little movie could use her “Respect, Protection, Consent” poster to teach him that rape is bad.
I didn't think it was possible to make a film more nonsensical than "Age of Ultron", but you succeeded. Congrats!
— Tony G (@TonyAugust302) May 17, 2017
You picked supporting the nation's largest abortion provider over starting on a second season of Firefly? That's a tub of stuff right there.
— ????? ???? (@chrisgast) May 17, 2017
oh cool now show reverse footage of an unborn child being ripped limb from limb
— Christian Ledford (@Theoretic_AnCap) May 17, 2017
“Make it so that we don’t know what it is.”
https://twitter.com/LifeofNate0711/status/864885381098909696
PP didn't receive federal funding until 1970–Nixon.. Which means it survived just fine without it for over 50 years.
— Rev. Ducati? (@Reverend_Ducati) May 17, 2017
So, if Planned Parenthood’s supporters were more generous, then PP wouldn’t have to lock its doors permanently? #DefundPP
— American Life League (@AmerLifeLeague) May 17, 2017
There are hundreds of great causes. Most of them aren't controversial and they don't require Federal Funding. Let PP raise its own money.
— Hank Rearden (@STLJimmyG) May 17, 2017
If you stop making my tax dollars pay for it then you can keep it. That's all I'm saying.
— Dustin Huntley (@DustinHuntley1) May 17, 2017
So in your fantasy world, hospitals, walk-in clinics, and the public health department don't exist? Only Planned Parenthood, apparently.
— American Life League (@AmerLifeLeague) May 17, 2017
It took a special effect added in post by the American Life League, but having the shuttered Planned Parenthood leave directions on its door to actual health care centers would have been thoughtful.
Planned Parenthood hates its customers so much, it doesn’t do this pic.twitter.com/2KmsY595Ks
— American Life League (@AmerLifeLeague) May 17, 2017
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Brit Hume blasts NPR for reporting BLATANT lie that Planned Parenthood provides mammogramshttps://t.co/JfzueW7TcI
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 17, 2017
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