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The abortion conversation

posted 10 years ago by shesnotstatic
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made me feel physically sick.

I really appreciate how real/human the Rachel character came across but this really disturbs me if its a reality that women have an understanding that almost everyone has had an abortion!?

I don't know what scene was more offensive that or the old guy orgasming lol.

also im surprised it was only an M15+ rating... it felt like a soft core porno most of the time... I guess I just feel even a movie about a stripper didn't have to revolve around sex so much..

[–] vaughnshady 10 years ago

Made me feel kinda ill too.

[–] tony3920 10 years ago

It was pretty disturbing. Especially among a group of mothers.

[–] cpoet 9 years ago

Right idea, but one crucial step too far, and therefore unrealistic.

It would have been more believable if they'd all gotten boozy and cozy and started sharing traumatic "pregnancy scare" stories, which is pretty common ground for a lot of women. The progression would have been the same--an inappropriate segue from someone announcing she's pregnant, followed by Rachel continuing to talk until she horrifies everyone with her laugh/cry slide into her compound losses.

An abortion, however, is never less than devastating. Rachel was looking for a way to share a gut-wrenching event--and it was quite moving how she kept trying to spin it as an "anecdote" where she ended up watching soap operas for a year--but she wouldn't have found a roomful of women willing to banter about abortion in the first place, much less their own.