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Edited on Mon May-29-06 04:01 PM by BlueIris
My reason for wanting shit like "A Baby Story" in particular off the air is that for those of us who hate to see people in dysfunctional marriages and relationships creating children to "fill the void," or take their mind of their hideous problems or whatever get so. damn. depressed. watching the couples have their babies, (while the obvious stress between them bleeds allll over the screen during the lead up to and during the L&D process) and "happily" take them home...to a lifetime of assured misery. Taking away "A Baby Story" would probably save many people from Prozac. The only reason I can think to keep that crap around is so viewers (well, the ones watching with their brains on, anyway) can see the difference between the way couples with decent health coverage are treated by the health care system versus the way couples without it are handled--and be horrified. And frankly, from what I've seen on that terrible show, even the couples who were obviously selected for the series because they've secured the increasingly-rare private, traditional indemnity plans still have to put up with a fat pile of disturbing, misogynist bullshit from...everyone, even in allegedly enlightened "birthing centers." Well, except in the hospitals in which the staff obviously knows it's going to wind up on The Learning Channel and wants to make a big show of how "modern" and dare I say it, "progressive" they are about helping the women have the babies, which--for those of us who've worked in health care, we know that the second they're off to their next patient, who doesn't have a full camera crew scrutinizing her environment, it's back to their normal, callous, and usually deeply misogynist routine. So, in some sense, evil crap like "A Baby Story" does serve sort of a positive purpose. Every time I even think about having a kid someday, I flash back to some random scene in which a whiny, disinterested OB speaks condescendingly to a woman trying to deliver her child and just--shudder. Cats for me, I think. And a future in which "A Baby Story" is only shown at 2 a.m. With extra commercials.
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