It is a theoretically pro-choice story even if Buffy keeps the baby (I say theoretically, b/c I still think Joss is going to pull something weird so that she *has* to keep it, in which case that's not pro-choice, that's, that's like what he did to Cordelia over and over, and it's gross; it's this quote from that interview: "The whole thing isn’t going to be, well, normal. There’s not going to be a lot of “normal” going on, but hopefully there’s a certain amount of “relatable"; WTF does he mean it's not going to be normal? Is he telling us outright the pregnancy is going to be mystical?), but I'm worried about how politics will screw everything up. If she gets rid of the baby, pro-lifers will be calling for Joss's head (which, let's face it, would probably be on their to-do list at some point anyway), and if she keeps the baby, even by choice, pro-choicers will call it a cop-out. No matter how it goes, I don't see how it won't be politicized and nitpicked by the mainstream media, and I DON'T want our beloved Buffy and S9 torn apart by people who have no connection to the character or story and just want to use it for their soapbox. :/
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Date: 2012-02-09 09:51 pm (UTC)It is a theoretically pro-choice story even if Buffy keeps the baby (I say theoretically, b/c I still think Joss is going to pull something weird so that she *has* to keep it, in which case that's not pro-choice, that's, that's like what he did to Cordelia over and over, and it's gross; it's this quote from that interview: "The whole thing isn’t going to be, well, normal. There’s not going to be a lot of “normal” going on, but hopefully there’s a certain amount of “relatable"; WTF does he mean it's not going to be normal? Is he telling us outright the pregnancy is going to be mystical?), but I'm worried about how politics will screw everything up. If she gets rid of the baby, pro-lifers will be calling for Joss's head (which, let's face it, would probably be on their to-do list at some point anyway), and if she keeps the baby, even by choice, pro-choicers will call it a cop-out. No matter how it goes, I don't see how it won't be politicized and nitpicked by the mainstream media, and I DON'T want our beloved Buffy and S9 torn apart by people who have no connection to the character or story and just want to use it for their soapbox. :/