All right, class, as you may know, we occasionally like to slice a
hunk of raw, intellectual meat off of the electrical side of beef that
is the Internet, toss it your way, and watch you scrap over it while we
drink a beer. Today's juicy morsel comes to us via the New York Times and author Caitlin Flanagan, and is a reaction to the hit indie adoption comedy Juno.
The movie “Juno” is a fairy tale about a pregnant teenager who
decides to have her baby, place it for adoption and then get on with
her life. For the most part, the tone of the movie is comedic and
jolly, but there is a moment when Juno tells her father about her
condition, and he shakes his head in disappointment and says, “I
thought you were the kind of girl who knew when to say when.”
Female
viewers flinch when he says it, because his words lay bare the bitterly
unfair truth of sexuality: female desire can bring with it a form of
punishment no man can begin to imagine, and so it is one appetite women
and girls must always regard with caution. Because Juno let her guard
down and had a single sexual experience with a sweet, well-intentioned
boy, she alone is left with this ordeal of sorrow and public shame.
OK, you know what, we're gonna skip past some of this, since basically it reminds us that despite the comedy in Juno, teenage pregnancy is a serious, potentially terrible thing, which (despite our being a product of it), we totally agree with. What we really wanted to talk about was this...
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