{"id":58416,"date":"2016-04-18T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58416"},"modified":"2016-04-16T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T01:37:15","slug":"in-the-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58416","title":{"rendered":"In The Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Hollywood (a wholly owned subsidary of the American Left) toes the left’s designated political line, they get almost…conservative<\/a>, sometimes, when the proverbial chips are down:<\/p>\n

On some issues, Hollywood can be downright right-wing. From the value of guns in The Walking Dead to the honor of police in countless dramas to the importance of family in most sitcoms, there is a lot more conservatism, broadly understood, on TV than conservatives or liberals ever notice.<\/p>\n

And so it is with abortion. With the exception of Maude (an awful left-wing 1970s TV show) \u00a0and some \u201cedgy\u201d HBO series, there have been no major sitcoms in which a character has had an abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d add Neve Campbell’s “Julia Salinger” from\u00a0Party of Five<\/em>\u00a0which, it’s alarming to note, was 22 years ago.<\/p>\n

Why? Well, one reason is abortions aren\u2019t funny. There\u2019s no reason to write a storyline in which a character gets pregnant only to decide later not have a baby. That\u2019s not a punch line, it\u2019s a tragedy. Even the very liberal Mindy Kaling, star and producer of The Mindy Project, says the show won\u2019t touch the issue of abortion \u2014 and Kaling plays a gynecologist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so while politics is downstream of culture, at least some part of the culture business finds it in its interest to remember that most people are, broadly, conservative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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