Tag: so good
Renamed Musicals:
American Idiot: Broadway Goes Punk Rock The Musical
Book of Mormon: How Many People Can We Offend The Musical
Cabaret: Plot Twist The Musical
Cats: Don’t. Stop Right There. The Musical
Chicago: What Red Lipstick Sounds Like The Musical
The Drowsy Chaperone: Man in Chair Needs A Hug The Musical
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder: Murdering Your Family Helps You Get Laid Twice as Much The Musical
Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Glitter and Feelings The Musical
Into the Woods: If You Want Happy Endings Stop After Act 1 The Musical
Les Miserables: All His Friends Are Dead The Musical
The Lion King: Nants Ingonyama Bagithi Baba The Musical
Newsies: Broadway Equivalent of a Boy Band The Musical
Next to Normal: We Put the FUN in Dysfunctional The Musical
The Phantom of the Opera: How Has This Creepy Fucking Show Lasted 3000 Years The Musical
Rent: Mark Will Forever Be Alone The Musical
Rock of Ages: Isn’t One Time More Than Enough… The Musical
Side Show: American Horror Story Freak Show The Musical
Shrek: You Thought It’d Be Bad But It’s Actually Great The Musical
The Sound of Music: You Can’t Top Julie Andrews So Stop Trying The Musical
Spring Awakening: Sexual Frustration The Musical
Violet: No One Ever Actually Says She’s Beautiful and I’m Mad!?! The Musical
Wicked: Elphaba Thropp is Really Fucking Important The Musical [ps gelphie]
Unpopular Opinion: I don’t see how abortion can be considered anything other than premeditated murder.
Well, it’s pretty simple to understand “how”. The term “premeditated murder” functions on the acceptance of a few premises. Here’s two that are important in this conversation:
1. It requires that a person is killed
2. It requires that the killing is wrongful
Many pro-choicers would disagree that abortion is premeditated murder because they don’t think either of these clauses applies to a (generally nonviable) fetus.
Not everyone defines life (or perhaps sentient and therefore considerable life) at the same stage of fetal development. Therefore, some pro-choicers would disagree with your labeling because they don’t agree that abortion is the killing of a person. Instead they understand it as the killing of the biological precursors to a person.
And it’s definitely not as simple a situation as a mother who um “premeditates the murder” of her fetus because she has some evil (‘wrongful’ if we’re looking back to the two premises I outlined earlier) ulterior motive. Reasons mothers have for opting for abortion that are arguably better than bringing the baby to term:
1. The baby was a result of rape.
2. Mom knows she won’t be able to provide adequate emotional/financial support for baby. She knows she won’t be able to give baby an even relatively good or healthy life.
3. Mom knows she won’t be able to provide and she doesn’t want to inflict a life of foster homes/homelessness on a child because of the pretty much infinite list of shitty things that are known to happen in the foster system.
4. It is unsafe for the mother to carry the baby to term because of health reasons and doing so would most likely kill her in the process.
5. The baby is anencephalic or otherwise in almost complete certainty of being unable to function or remain alive outside the womb for any period of time.
Regardless of whether you think these motivations and understandings of abortion are valid or not, you have to accept that if you choose to define abortion as “premeditated murder” and leave no room for any other view, you’re implying that even for the cases in which the child would be unloved/unsupported/brought into poverty/abuse/incapacitating sickness/abandonment/etc… or potentially kill the mother if brought to term, the mother who makes the decision to opt for a more humane/safe option of aborting the fetus should be considered not only a murderer, but one that is thought to have wicked motivations. I feel that this conclusion is fundamentally wrong.
GO WATCH THIS SHOW, HONESTLY IT IS SO AMAZING.
IF THIS POST CREATES 1 NEW PUSHING DAISIES FAN MY LIFE = MADE.
Alright let me help out then:
1) Most of the cast is female. In fact only two main characters are male.
2) Both male characters take typically non-masculine hobbies. Emerson Cod knits almost non-stop and makes pop-up books. Ned is literally called “The Pie-Maker” because he bakes homestyle pies from his mother’s method. Both are shown to be very nurturing and even maternal characters. Conversely, the women? A pair of professional travelling show performers that have gritty sexual scandals the way men usually get (see the entire “Chuck’s father” storylines), a beekeeper who is the single most positive and optimistic character imaginable, and a former professional jockey- Three of four pro athletes.
3) You could very easily make the claim Ned is asexual.
4) Yes, the storyline is about romance. But it’s also about the positive side of a love story, and their only drama lies in overcoming their inability to actually share contact.
5) A very good friend of mine recommended this show to me as “Disney for adults.” I told her it was already on my list to watch because “It’s by Bryan Fuller, from Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me.” Bryan Fuller is now most known for “Hannibal.” The same camera methods and bright colours and lighting techniques Hannibal is known for? Perfected in this show, just using a different tone- The same colour methods in reverse, upping the vivid greens and yellows instead of reds and blues, which sells emotion both ways.
7) Probably one of the best examples of a modern day fairy tale possible.
8) Narrated by Jim Dale- The narrator for the HP audio books.
I don’t know if anyone’s already added links to this, but all of these here work and if you hover over the links, an episode description shows 🙂
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