Comments on: How Grey’s Anatomy just became relevant again http://www.criticaltwenties.in/mediapopularculture/how-greys-anatomy-just-became-relevant-again Powered by Webshore Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:32:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lekha http://www.criticaltwenties.in/mediapopularculture/how-greys-anatomy-just-became-relevant-again#comment-9588 Lekha Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:05:31 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=3804#comment-9588 While I do agree that this whole "having the baby so brave" thing needs to go, I always figured that the writers of all these shows preferred the women to keep the babies, because that's a story arc for the entire season and baby-related hijinks for the next. Abortion is one episode, maybe two tops but with a preggo character you have nausea episode, i-feel-fat-and-ugly episode, scared-of-being-single-mother episode and of course, the season finale when everybody gets to yell "PUSH" at her. What I DO find annoying is the sheer number of natural births on television. None of them opt (or need) to have an epidural or a C-sec or need to get stitched up after, because that's for weak women, presumably. The latest offender was Bones (season finale aired yesterday) where Angela "bravely" decides to have her baby without any drugs and calmly discusses the future with her husband while pushing. Easy-peasy. And then she tells another character how labour was so beautiful and perfect or some nonsense like that. My mom told me that giving birth was so goddamn painful that she didn't want to so much as look at my brother after he was born. While I do agree that this whole “having the baby so brave” thing needs to go, I always figured that the writers of all these shows preferred the women to keep the babies, because that’s a story arc for the entire season and baby-related hijinks for the next. Abortion is one episode, maybe two tops but with a preggo character you have nausea episode, i-feel-fat-and-ugly episode, scared-of-being-single-mother episode and of course, the season finale when everybody gets to yell “PUSH” at her.

What I DO find annoying is the sheer number of natural births on television. None of them opt (or need) to have an epidural or a C-sec or need to get stitched up after, because that’s for weak women, presumably. The latest offender was Bones (season finale aired yesterday) where Angela “bravely” decides to have her baby without any drugs and calmly discusses the future with her husband while pushing. Easy-peasy. And then she tells another character how labour was so beautiful and perfect or some nonsense like that. My mom told me that giving birth was so goddamn painful that she didn’t want to so much as look at my brother after he was born.

]]> By: Sanhita http://www.criticaltwenties.in/mediapopularculture/how-greys-anatomy-just-became-relevant-again#comment-9581 Sanhita Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:46:27 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=3804#comment-9581 I’m a huge GA fan – your review is super! It’s interesting, especially when you compare what happened in this week's Grey’s, to other popular shows depicting empowered women making “real” choices, notably Sex and the City. SATC had an episode on a similar theme in season 4 - where Miranda eventually did not terminate her pregnancy, and Carrie recounted her own story of having an abortion when she was 20-something. SATC’s treatment of abortion was disappointing. It neatly fit into every prime-time show stereotype you describe in your review. And the only thing Carrie seemed to worry (actually obsess) about 15 years later, was how her boyfriend at the time - Aidan - would react to the fact. Grey’s gets a lot of credit this week for acknowledging, both, the fact that women can make real choices about having children and that this choice is always a very difficult one. I’m a huge GA fan – your review is super! It’s interesting, especially when you compare what happened in this week’s Grey’s, to other popular shows depicting empowered women making “real” choices, notably Sex and the City. SATC had an episode on a similar theme in season 4 – where Miranda eventually did not terminate her pregnancy, and Carrie recounted her own story of having an abortion when she was 20-something. SATC’s treatment of abortion was disappointing. It neatly fit into every prime-time show stereotype you describe in your review. And the only thing Carrie seemed to worry (actually obsess) about 15 years later, was how her boyfriend at the time – Aidan – would react to the fact. Grey’s gets a lot of credit this week for acknowledging, both, the fact that women can make real choices about having children and that this choice is always a very difficult one.

]]> By: Danish Sheikh http://www.criticaltwenties.in/mediapopularculture/how-greys-anatomy-just-became-relevant-again#comment-9556 Danish Sheikh Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:29:38 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=3804#comment-9556 Thanks Arghya. Glad to meet a fellow Grey-er then :) Thanks Arghya. Glad to meet a fellow Grey-er then :)

]]> By: Arghya http://www.criticaltwenties.in/mediapopularculture/how-greys-anatomy-just-became-relevant-again#comment-9554 Arghya Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:45:59 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=3804#comment-9554 Beautiful. Both the episode and your review! Beautiful. Both the episode and your review!

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