I originally wrote this as a comment on The Huffington Post, but I know it will never survive. It'll probably never get approved. Oh well. Here it is for you.
Let's see if you can spot the sarcasm!
"Not only are you about three months too late on this hopelessly unnecessary analysis, (check the Slate.com archives), but you seem to have harnessed powerful psychic abilities that have allowed you to peer deep within the mind of Judd Apatow and discover that he is a soldier for the religious right!
Genius!
"The point is not that abortion (or adoption) would have made for better comedy."
Unfortunately, that IS the point. It wouldn't. Let me run this by you: An overweight, scraggly slacker and a successful, attractive woman have a drunken one-night stand. When she finds out that she's pregnant, she decides to have an abortion. The end!
I don't know about you, but I'm laughing already.
"Having a baby doesn't magically transform your pot habit into a sense of responsibility (or infant-sodomy humorists into good babysitters)."
But, get this, in the MOVIE the CHARACTER decides to take on some RESPONSIBILITY. I know this is a big, bold, new concept for everyone to embrace, but sometimes in FICTION (especially in comedies) people don't always act the way they do in REAL LIFE.
I'll pause for a second to let that sink in. I know we're covering a lot of ground.
Could the movie have addressed abortion on a more serious level? Probably. Was it necessary? No. Does the decision to carry the baby to term mean that evangelical Christians are funneling money to Apatow? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say "No. That's stupid."
So, please. Please. Laugh once in a while? I guess you haven't seen any actual gross-out comedies to know what one is, but this movie wasn't one. But if you really get all uncomfortable about people making (somewhat explicit) sex jokes, maybe you're the one with the right wing agenda.
I don't think that allegation is any less ridiculous than yours."
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