Wednesday, January 11, 2012
TV Land
So I watch this show "Parenthood", and let me just say - it's a GREAT show. I'm totally obsessed with it. It's in the 3rd season, so there's a ton of episodes for me to catch up on since I just started watching it. I was watching the newest episode this morning and one character (Sarah) is 40ish and has 2 kids that she had a young age that are like 19 and 16 probably. She is dating this younger guy and they babysit her brother's baby for a day together. After the adventures in babysitting the younger guy said "I could totally see having a baby with you". Being a woman, Sarah rushes off the gyn and wants to know if it's cool for her to start trying. The doctor drops the BOMB on Sarah that they should run some tests to give her an idea if there's any issues and how difficult it might be to get pregnant. Sarah is *shocked*. My immediate thought was "She's going to be pregnant before me". Now I realize she lives in TV land and for her to get knocked up someone just has to write it down and the deed is done, it's worked into the script. I'm not sure why I take such offense to a fictional character potentially planning to get pregnant. I guess I've crossed the threshold to bitter infertile. I'm officially jealous of anyone that's pregnant. It doesn't matter their story, I don't care if they did IVF 100 times, or it's their journey is peppered with land mines and heartbreak, or they are fictional characters on a TV show and they aren't ACTUALLY pregnant in real life. Regardless of the circumstances I've become jealous and probably insensitive to all pregnant women (as in don't come to complaining to me about morning sickness because I'll leave you feeling like so guilty you even mentioned morning sickness or even had the audacity to get pregnant before me in the first place!). I knew this day would come, the big question now is, will I ever go back to the land of "happy for the pregnant ladies"? Will I ever say (and mean it) "she's got that pregnant glow, doesn't she look fab?" instead of "She looks like a house that's about to barf!".
Labels:
Parenthood,
pregnant women
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