Now, I know feminists are supposed to never have a sense of humor (you know, because we need to get laid and all) but I found myself laughing at the sneak preview for season two of The Sarah Silverman Program. And I felt guilty for it. Why? Oh, because it's an "abortion montage" where Sarah fondly remembers her three different abortions. While I think we all agree that rape jokes are never funny, is this abortion montage just as bad? Like, I know abortion isn't funny and is a very serious ordeal...but I still laughed. Is it because I love Sarah Silverman? Is it because I'm dead inside? (Or a little bit of both?)
Do you think, despite this being in really poor taste, that it's funny?
Yay or Nay?
I personally found this quite funny, and liked the way it poked fun at certain draconian attitudes.
Sadly, it looks like just the sort of thing that pro-lifers would use as "evidence" that anyone who is pro-choice takes abortion really lightly like the girl in the film. That's not what it's saying at all - but it could be used in that way.
So "maybe".
I think it's hilarious. It's poking fun at pro-abortionists by showing that no one like to have an abortion or fondly look back on it.
I agree that this video is hilarious. Silverman is not poking fun at the act of women having an abortion, but rather, in my opinion, the outrageous claims that pro-lifers make about women who have abortions.
Yea, the montage is funny as as Megan already pointed out, it's making fun of the 'women use abortion as contraception' argument, not the fact that women have abortions.
Resolved: it's funny.
It would maybe be funny too if the opening group thearpy session was expanded a little, maybe to drop some psychobabble about addiction and recovery and codependence and such, describing the session as an anti-abortion support group, maybe. But still the sequences with her coming and going to the clinic, seeing the doctor and the receptionist, and being greeted in a joking, "whoops, you again" manner would be funnier.
And if the pro-lifers can't take a joke, well, f... don't have sex with 'em. Yeah, that's how we'd put it. Maybe Sarah would have something stronger to say, but coming from her, it would sound funny anyway.