Posted on 09/19/2014 5:25:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Indian-American actress Mindy Kaling not only stars in her own sitcom on Fox called "The Mindy Project," she's in charge of it. You might think that feminists would celebrate that achievement, but that would show that you don't know about feminists. Apparently, nothing satisfies them. Instead, they are demanding she use her program to sell feminism, and its crowning joy, abortion.
Kaling committed a gaffe among the Hollywood left by telling a Flare magazine interviewer she had no plans to address what the magazine called "the American right's current war on abortion." Kaling said "It would be demeaning to the topic to talk about it in a half-hour sitcom."
In the article itself, it was a throwaway line. But to feminists, it was a bombshell. Her character, Dr. Mindy Lahiri, is an obstetrician/gynecologist. This apparently demands an abortion plot. They claim it's comedic gold. We kid you not.
Amanda Marcotte, one of America's most obnoxious feminist pundits, insisted, "Abortion is actually a perfect topic for a half-hour comedy because it touches on so many themes that comedy writers love to mine for the laughs." She insisted, "How easy it is, if you let go of the fear of getting letters from anti-choice nuts, to make some really funny jokes about abortion."
Marcotte recently wrote a jeremiad on "The Tyranny of the Home-Cooked Family Dinner" that was dead serious, but abortion is chock full of giggles? Such is the feminist mindset.
The recent movie "Obvious Child" was hailed by feminists for finding the comedy in abortion. A stand-up comedian gets an abortion, and the laughs naturally follow? "You're going to kill it," the comedian's best friend says at the comedy club the night before her abortion. "Tomorrow I am," was the punch line retort.
Back to Kaling, who buckled. Heading into her show's third season, Kaling made the round of liberal media outlets apologizing profusely that she misspoke. Abortion is a fine topic for comedy, she told The Huffington Post, just not for her own show. "Many incredible shows have dealt with in it in a way that I really admire. 'Roseanne' is one of them. I should have said for now. I don't know that that would be the case in the show, and I don't want to lock myself into never talking about it."
Then, on "The Colbert Report," she begged for patience. "We haven't found a hilarious take on abortion that's saying something new yet. But we might. I have faith in us." Colbert tried to pander to his liberal audience by claiming abortion was a "funny word, like guacamole."
The left often insists that artistic freedom is paramount. That is not true. Liberals insisted that sitcoms and dramas stuff their plots with arguments in favor of Obamacare. Imagine the furor if the Bush administration had insisted that sitcoms should address the war on terror, as comedy. What about comedy skits where animals are dismembered, or aborted? The left would never permit it.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, tells you how sick our culture is.
Disgusting. Didn’t watch it before, ain’t gonna watch it now.
Most Indians I know are not big fans of Mindy Kaling.
Apparently their culture is too conservative to find much
entertainment value in a wise-cracking gynecologist.
“Embarrassed” more or less describes their reaction.
I was hoping this was some kind of poor satire ...
The show didn't exactly blow out the ratings in the first season, and its viewership dropped 25% in the second season.
Its third season debut was only 15% above its second season average.
That number implies that her average viewership may drop below 2mm per episode.
Brent Bozell doesn’t write satire
I used to watch sitcoms when they were worth watching. They haven’t been for at least 20 years
I liked Kaling on The Office, her Kelly was one of my favorite characters. I'm glad to see that she undertands that abortion is not an appropriate subject for a sitcom.
I believe that one of her parents, maybe both, are GYNOBs. Maybe she's writing from experience....
Ms Marcotte's moral compass is so f***ed up, I'm suprised she can find her way to the bathroom.
It’s one thing to be a gynecologist.
Something all together different to want to watch
them for entertainment.
If her ratings are so low and yet Fox keeps bringing her back, that seems to reinforce the idea it’s to sell an agenda.
Oddly enough there are 2 pretty decent sitcoms on ABC these days.
The Middle and The Goldbergs. Funny and largely devoid of offensive humor or brazen political crap.
Unfortunately they are sandwiched around the highly destructive Modern Family.
The last one I watched was Seinfeld - then came “Friends “ and I totally tuned out.
So what every woman who is having a child and wants to drink, smoke, or do drugs while pregnant should tell busybodies scolding her for her harming the child is that she's going to abort the kid anyway. So why get worked up about her bad habits? That would be the screwball logic of the abortionists.
P.s. In one episode of "Seinfeld" pro-abortion Elaine gets worked up about one pregnant, female character smoking. I wonder if the irony was lost on Julia-Louis Dreyfus?
I have never even heard of this woman or this show!
But I have not watched a sitcom since “Frazier”, so what do I know?
I like Big Bang Theory, but only because I’m a geek. Otherwise, not entirely thrilled about the low-brow sex jokes. Frasier had a lot of the similar writing.
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