September 7, 2022
Pop This: Obvious Child
Guess what, there was one last place on earth where I hadn’t yet talked about abortion, and that’s the awesome Pop This Podcast with Andrea Warner and Andrea Gin, who had me on a few weeks ago to talk about OBVIOUS CHILD, the Jenny Slate “abortion rom-com” I saw in the cinema in 2014, where a post-Roe America was unfathomable. I rewatched it this month in the company of my 13yo, which was such a great experience. If there had been films like this when I was a teen, I likely would have spent less time saying things like, “I’m totally pro-choice, but that’s not a decision I’d ever make myself.” (Ha ha!) Since we recorded the episode, I’ve also been thinking about what a good job this movie does showing the messy reality of human bodies, bodies that fart, pee, (and even pee-fart), poop, leak, and get pregnant unintentionally. And abortion is just as ordinary as all the rest of that, as OBVIOUS CHILD shows, and I love that.
