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Motherhood Unappealing


I can't think of any woman wanting to be a mother after watching this movie. Your body gets ruined, your children are wretched, your husband is unloving - I'd be checking into the convent!

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Business is booming at Planned Parenthood thanks to this movie. I think the real movie message is this: Be sure you have money. Lots and lots of money. Then motherhood isn’t so bad lol.

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Not so much the message of the movie as of reality. That's something I've always liked about Diablo Cody.

I also got the impression Theron was saying something about her own life. Seeing how she adopted, it's not so much about the physical toll of child birth as the mental toll of becoming responsible for another person. We become less sexy with age regardless.

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Of course motherhood is unappealing!

Only people who dont understand what it's really like want to do it.

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