[lbo-talk] Neo-Realism: Chapter 2

[Cassiopeoa DeVine]

>"4 Months" was contrasted with "Juno" recently in a Counterpunch
>article, but if you look closely and leave aside the differences that
>follow from differences in genre, the movies have a lot in common and
>produce a new sense of feminism: one in which feminism is not defined by
>one's unrepentant ability to kill a foetus, but by the absolute
>willingness of women to help one another in very trying circumstances.

Yet, would it not be nice if women/teenagers/children would not have to have
"trying circumstances"?
Procreation should not even be considered a "trying circumstance" and yet it
is. And it should also not be "only" women helping each other out, in the
end (as allegedly depicted in "Juno". I have not seen the movie so I cannot
tell) all of the social environment should be there for the mother-to-be and
not make it even harder for her to give birth and raise a child because of
various reasons they or society in general have.
Child-bearing and -raising simply has not the standing in society and with
most people which it should have... So we make it easier for women to decide
against pregnancy and lie to them that abortion is a freedom women have,
whereas it really is a restriction of their inherent freedom to be able to
give birth and keep humanity going so there is a future that can be changed
for the better...

Cass