#anyway. normalise abortion storylines that aren't backstory fodder and aren't fakeouts for baby plots. please | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

welcometogrouchland · 19 hours ago

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Noticing that TV and film will often have a character either have had an abortion in the past that isn't showcased on screen (and just used as part of the character's ~fucked up and twisted backstory~) OR contemplate getting an abortion in the present day but not to through with it. Just once I want to see someone delete that fetus within the events of the plot and not be like. Extremely majorly punished for it and/or be in the wrong

#ramblings of a lunatic #was watching a tv show w the fam recently and it's the 2nd series of a show that was clearly written with only 1 in mind #so in the 2nd season a character gets pregnant (bc ofc) and contemplates getting an abortion #only to do the whole 'omg she thinks she's lost the baby and realizes she wanted to keep it all along!'#which like. fine and valid and happens to ppl irl I'm sure #but like. this season doesn't establish if she wanted kids prior or if she has a stable job (she was struggling career wise-#-last season and the timeskip this season doesn't go into it)#AND has this fucking bizarre scene w/ her boyfriend (whos mostly been irrelevant and occasionally annoying up til now)#where he says it's 'our pregnancy' that she was going to terminate and when she (rightfully) bites back-#-saying 'you mean MY pregnancy?!' he just. storms off and deflects #which would be one thing but we have to wrap up the main plot so she just apologizes to him (for other plot stuff)#and we're never given any indication that his opinion has changed and they're just happily parenting at the end of the season #which just. left a bad taste in my mouth #like I KNOW i know not every bad thing said on screen needs a big blinking arrow that points out that it's Bad and Wrong #but idk how I'm supposed to feel in a series that has painted itself as explicitly feminist up til this point #presents the outcome of a woman dating and bearing a child for a man w seemingly zero respect for her bodily autonomy as happily ever after #w no follow up #like the whole series is centered on a group of sisters and this pregnancy story happened to the youngest one #who's always seen as needing to 'grow up' in season 1. so assuming this is meant to be building off that arc it's so WEIRD still #bc yes being a parent is an opportunity for many ppl to mature emotionally but that's not really something the character-#-reflects on all season. it's more abt her burying her past relationship w a season 1 guy (who was infinitely more interesting than new guy)#-than anything to do with that #AND EVEN IF IT WAS the notion of pregnancy as a punishment/reckoning meant to make her grow up or take responsibility-#-which is secretly a blessing in disguise i. god the show fell apart so hard here for me #and my mom and sister were just cooing over the baby at the end and i didn't speak up bc i didn't want to be a bitch #and in all fairness I'm probably being a tad uncharitable in this post but like. don't piss me OFF man #anyway. normalise abortion storylines that aren't backstory fodder and aren't fakeouts for baby plots. please

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