It’s not enough to have to suffer under the iron fist of home-cooked family meals. Amanda Marcotte is also oppressed by the lack of abortions on “The Mindy Project”:
https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/507615445109592064
Abortion is actually a perfect topic for a half-hour comedy, because it touches on so many themes that comedy writers love to mine for the laughs: sex, relationships, the massive gulf between our best intentions and our actual life choices. That’s why comedy writers circle back to unintended pregnancy time and time again in hit movies like Knocked Up and Juno. And as the movieObvious Child demonstrated, you can mine those same themes with a character who decides against carrying the pregnancy to term as with someone who has the baby. In fact, Prachi Gupta at Salon has helpfully listed all the half-hour sitcoms, going back to Maude in 1972, that have discussed abortion. Girls alone showed how easy it is, if you let go of the fear of getting letters from anti-choice nuts, to make some really funny jokes about abortion.
https://twitter.com/AndrewHClark/status/507616934771175426
No RT @AmandaMarcotte: http://t.co/0r2pvCqGgy The Mindy Project should have an abortion storyline, as it’s a normal part of ob-gyn care.
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) September 4, 2014
Abortion is NOT funny, @AmandaMarcotte
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) September 4, 2014
Wait, wait … maybe give her a chance to explain:
While no one expects sitcoms to be perfect reflections of life, this unrealistic oversight only contributes to the taboo around discussing abortion and the marginalization of doctors who want to offer the service. The irony here is that by ignoring this very normal part of gynecological care, The Mindy Project is unwittingly making it harder for the real-life Dr. [Mindy] Lahiris in the world, and the women they treat.
Smart take? Not on your life.
@hboulware I'm still wondering when/where/how that's a part of a NORMAL ob-gyn but then again I'm just a guy
— Loren (@LorenSethC) September 4, 2014
https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/507616244065792000
https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/507616977884422144
https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/507617512310059008
@hboulware GP Abortion is the opposite of OB-GYN care. It ends a normal human body function (reproduction). It fixes no problem.
— The Gormogons (@Gormogons) September 4, 2014
https://twitter.com/gordonshuckrow/status/507633059798085633
There's nothing funnier than ending a human life, as Kenny Bania would say "that's gold, Jerry, Gold!" @AmandaMarcotte
— 4th-Party Pol (@PointlessPol) September 4, 2014
Plotline: a leg gets stuck in the vacuum, hilarity ensues @AmandaMarcotte
— 4th-Party Pol (@PointlessPol) September 4, 2014
https://twitter.com/SouthernKeeks/status/507625799864692737
https://twitter.com/Patriot_Musket/status/507616878982754305
We know that at this point, it goes without saying, but we’ll say it anyway: There is something seriously wrong with Amanda Marcotte.
https://twitter.com/ar_christiansen/status/507617090199486464
https://twitter.com/MeSoSnowflake/status/507616720509362177
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/507616584941043712
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