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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Those who are not pro-choice will see Diane as UnintentionallyUnsympathetic for aborting her pregnancy, and feel like her reasoning was self-centered due to just wanting to remain childless even with a loving husband and status to take care of one. It doesn't help she later cracks a joke in a later season about possibility needing another abortion, which many pro-lifers thought was tasteless.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Those who are not pro-choice will see Diane as UnintentionallyUnsympathetic for aborting her pregnancy, and feel like especially since she had good conditions to raise one with her reasoning was husband. As a result, many see her choice as self-centered due to just wanting to remain childless even with a loving husband avoid responsibility and status making her not so different from Bojack who tries to take care of one. It doesn't help she later cracks a joke in a later season about possibility needing another abortion, which many pro-lifers thought was tasteless.runaway from his actions and how it could hurt others.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Those who are not pro-choice will see Diane as UnintentionallyUnsympathetic for aborting her pregnancy, and feel like the show not willing to explore her reasoning and feelings doesn't help win them over and believe someone who had the means was self-centered due to take care of a child but yet still abort it because they want just wanting to remain childless is self-centered. even with a loving husband and status to take care of one. It doesn't help she later cracks a joke in a later season about possibility needing another abortion, which many pro-lifers thought was tasteless.
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** It was established in Season One that Diane comes from a large family of stereotypical dumb, rude urban rednecks who would likely hold pro-life sentiments. While Diane cut off all ties with her family and has never been shown to hold the same beliefs or interests as them, it would have been interesting for her to mention her upbringing at some point in the episode. It also could have added some more depth to the discussion if Diane's Vietnamese, middle-class mother was revealed to hold the same beliefs as the old white men on [=MSNBSea=].
** It was established in Season One that Diane comes from a large family of stereotypical dumb, rude urban rednecks who would likely hold pro-life sentiments. While Diane cut off all ties with her family and has never been shown to hold the same beliefs or interests as them, it would have been interesting for her to mention her upbringing at some point in the episode. It also could have added some more depth to the discussion if Diane's Vietnamese, middle-class mother was revealed to hold the same beliefs as the old white men on [=MSNBSea=].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Those who are not pro-choice will see Diane as UnitentionallyUnsympathetic UnintentionallyUnsympathetic for aborting her pregnancy, and feel like the show not willing to explore her reasoning and feelings doesn't help win them over and believe someone who had the means to take care of a child but yet still abort it because they want to remain childless is self-centered.
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* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: Pro-life. It's depicted as being a complete crock of shit that only idiots and chauvinists believe in.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The third bow-tie-wearing panelist talks about how, if a pregnancy is ''genuinely'' unwanted, the body will end it naturally. This is a reference to the 2012 election season in the US in which abortion became a focal point after Todd Akin, the Republican candidate for one of Missouri's Senate seats, [[https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/akin-legitimate-rape-victims-dont-get-pregnant-079864 claimed that]] "If it’s a legitimate [forcible] rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Diane is made to go through several acts to inform her about her decision before getting an abortion, which is made [[TakeThat to criticize laws regulating abortion]]. This would be true in many red states that have these kinds of laws if this wasn't in California, which has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and where Hollywood takes place. And despite the presence of {{Funny Animal}}s, the tone and message of episodes like this clearly place ''Bojack'' in "our" version of California.
** While the leadership of the pro-life movement is caricaturized as being led by old white men, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_anti-abortion_movement#cite_note-59 the actual leaders are white women]] and a lot of them did have abortions (which they admitted they regretted).
** Diane and Princess Caroline come up with the idea that Aquafina adopted her baby, which would be impossible to pull off in real life since she's still a teenager and you have to be 21 in order to adopt.
** While the leadership of the pro-life movement is caricaturized as being led by old white men, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_anti-abortion_movement#cite_note-59 the actual leaders are white women]] and a lot of them did have abortions (which they admitted they regretted).
** Diane and Princess Caroline come up with the idea that Aquafina adopted her baby, which would be impossible to pull off in real life since she's still a teenager and you have to be 21 in order to adopt.
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** The fact that Diane and Mr.Peanutbutter agreed not to have any children was never brought up before or mentioned again, especially since both have a history of actually getting along with children and the latter is considered has a FriendToAllChildren image. It would have been interesting if her above mentioned bad relationship with her family is what drove her not to want children, since she could have feared she could become like her parents. While Mr. Peanubutter's reasoning doesn't seem to have any obvious reason, one could say he could have agreed in order to make his wife happy. It could have been an interesting plot idea about how couples who choose to live childfree in contrast with those who want children like Princess Caroline.
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* InformedWrogness: Even though Diane was treated as being self-righteous for trying to rat out the false abortion campaign by Aquafina (and then later stopped when she listened to a young woman be inspired by Aquafina's song), she is still justified in being against Aquafina lying to the world about something she isn't going through and piggy backing on a sensitive topic. Not to mention the fallout of her campaign bites her in the butt when she actually gets pregnant and keeps the baby, which means she has to cover up the situation with even more lies.
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* InformedWrogness: InformedWrongness: Even though Diane was treated as being self-righteous for trying to rat out the false abortion campaign by Aquafina (and then later stopped when she listened to a young woman be inspired by Aquafina's song), she is still justified in being against Aquafina lying to the world about something she isn't going through and piggy backing on a sensitive topic. Not to mention the fallout of her campaign bites her in the butt when she actually gets pregnant and keeps the baby, which means she has to cover up the situation with even more lies.
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** Whenever Bojack gets a woman pregnant, his immediate response is to give her money for an abortion and cut off all contact with her. It could have added more gray nuances to the issue which condemned the pro-life as inherently misogynistic, when men like Bojack could just as well use abortion to their own sexist advantages. The issue is not focused on until briefly in early season 4 and is forgotten after that, while not really dwelling on this sleazy behavior.
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** Whenever Bojack gets a woman pregnant, his immediate response is to give her money for an abortion and cut off all contact with her. It could have added more gray nuances to the issue episode which condemned generalized the pro-life as inherently misogynistic, when men like Bojack could just as well use abortion to their own sexist advantages. The issue is not focused on until briefly in early season 4 and is forgotten after that, while not really dwelling on this sleazy behavior.
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** Whenever Bojack gets a woman pregnant, his immediate response is to give her money for an abortion and cut off all contact with her. It could have added more gray nuances to the issue which condemned the pro-life as inherently misogynistic, when men like Bojack could just as well use abortion to their own sexist advantages. The issue is not focused on until briefly in early season 4 and is forgotten after that, while not really dwelling on the this sleazy behavior.
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** Whenever Bojack gets a woman pregnant, his immediate response is to give her money for an abortion and cut off all contact with her. It could have added more gray nuances to the issue which condemned the pro-life as inherently misogynistic, when men like Bojack could just as well use abortion to their own sexist advantages. The issue is not focused on until briefly in early season 4 and is forgotten after that, while not really dwelling on the sleazy behavior.
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** Whenever BoJack Bojack gets a woman pregnant, his immediate response is to give her money for an abortion and cut off all contact with her. It could have added more gray nuances to the issue which condemned the pro-life as inherently misogynistic, when men like Bojack could just as well use abortion to their own sexist advantages.
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** While the leadership of the pro-life movement is caricaturized as being led by old white men, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_anti-abortion_movement#cite_note-59 the actual leaders are white women]].
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** While the leadership of the pro-life movement is caricaturized as being led by old white men, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_anti-abortion_movement#cite_note-59 the actual leaders are white women]].
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* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: Pro-life. It's depicted as being a complete crock of shit which only idiots and chauvinists believe in.
* BrokenBase: The depiction of a topic as sensitive as abortion is obviously going to bring up some discourse, though in this case it was more about how it didn't even give the pro-life argument a chance: for the pro-choice side, many believe this was a nuanced and deep look at the abortion debate which raised important questions about women's rights over their own bodies. For the pro-life side, many people believe it was very one sided with a lot of ugly caricatures of their movement, and strawmanned many of their usual talking points. Then there's [[TakeAThirdOption a third party]] of ''very'' pro-choice people who like it ''specifically'' because it isn't subtle in the slightest about saying that pro-choice is good and pro-life is bad.
* BrokenBase: The depiction of a topic as sensitive as abortion is obviously going to bring up some discourse, though in this case it was more about how it didn't even give the pro-life argument a chance: for the pro-choice side, many believe this was a nuanced and deep look at the abortion debate which raised important questions about women's rights over their own bodies. For the pro-life side, many people believe it was very one sided with a lot of ugly caricatures of their movement, and strawmanned many of their usual talking points. Then there's [[TakeAThirdOption a third party]] of ''very'' pro-choice people who like it ''specifically'' because it isn't subtle in the slightest about saying that pro-choice is good and pro-life is bad.
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* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: Pro-life. It's depicted as being a complete crock of shit which that only idiots and chauvinists believe in.
* BrokenBase: The depiction of a topic as sensitive as abortion is obviously going to bring up some discourse,though though, in this case case, it was more about how it didn't even give the pro-life argument a chance: for the pro-choice side, many believe this was a nuanced and deep look at the abortion debate which raised important questions about women's rights over their own bodies. For the pro-life side, many people believe it was very one sided one-sided with a lot of ugly caricatures of their movement, and strawmanned many of their usual talking points. Then there's [[TakeAThirdOption a third party]] of ''very'' pro-choice people who like it ''specifically'' because it isn't subtle in the slightest about saying that pro-choice is good and pro-life is bad.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Diane is made to go through several acts to inform her about her decision before getting an abortion, which is made [[TakeThat to criticize laws regulating abortion]]. This would be true in many red states that have these kinds of laws, if this wasn't in California which has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and where Hollywoo takes place. And despite the presence of {{Funny Animal}}s, the tone and message of episodes like this clearly place ''Bojack'' in "our" version of California.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Diane is made to go through several acts to inform her about her decision before getting an abortion, which is made [[TakeThat to criticize laws regulating abortion]]. This would be true in many red states that have these kinds of laws, laws if this wasn't in California California, which has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and where Hollywoo Hollywood takes place. And despite the presence of {{Funny Animal}}s, the tone and message of episodes like this clearly place ''Bojack'' in "our" version of California.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It was established in Season One that Diane comes from a large family of stereotypical dumb, rude urban rednecks who would likely hold pro-life sentiments. While Diane cut off all ties with her family and has never been shown to hold the same beliefs or interests as them, it would have been interesting for her to mention her upbringing at some point in the episode. It also could have added some more depth to the discussion if Diane's Vietnamese, middle class mother was revealed to hold the same beliefs as the old white men on [=MSNBSea=].
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: It was established in Season One that Diane comes from a large family of stereotypical dumb, rude urban rednecks who would likely hold pro-life sentiments. While Diane cut off all ties with her family and has never been shown to hold the same beliefs or interests as them, it would have been interesting for her to mention her upbringing at some point in the episode. It also could have added some more depth to the discussion if Diane's Vietnamese, middle class middle-class mother was revealed to hold the same beliefs as the old white men on [=MSNBSea=].
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* BrokenBase: The depiction of a topic as sensitive as abortion is obviously going to bring up some discourse, though in this case it was more about how it didn't even give the pro-life argument a chance: for the pro-choice side, many believe this was a nuanced and deep look at the abortion debate which raised important questions about women's rights over their own bodies. For the pro-life side, many people believe it was very one sided with a lot of ugly caricatures of their movement, and strawmanned many of their usual talking points. Then there's [[TakeAThirdOption a third party]] of ''very'' pro-choice people who like it ''specifically'' because it isn't subtle in the slightest about saying that pro-choice is good and pro-life is bad. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Let's leave it at that]].
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This isn't a trope
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Diane is made to go through several acts to inform her about her decision before getting an abortion, which is made [[TakeThat to criticize laws regulating abortion]]. This would be true in many red states that have these kinds of laws, if this wasn't in California which has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and where [[HollyWood Hollywoo]] Hollywoo takes place. And despite the presence of {{Funny Animal}}s, the tone and message of episodes like this clearly place ''Bojack'' in "our" version of California.
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* BrokenBase: The depiction of a topic as sensitive as abortion is obviously going to bring up some discourse, though in this case it was more about how it didn't even give the pro-life argument a chance: for the pro-choice side, many believe this was a nuanced and deep look at the abortion debate which raised important questions about women's rights over their own bodies. For the pro-life side, many people believe it was very one sided with a lot of ugly caricatures of their movement, and strawmanned many of their usual talking points. Then there's [[TakeAThirdOption a third party]] of ''very'' pro-choice people who agree that the episode wasn't subtle in the slightest about which side it was on, but are happy about seeing their views depicted this way. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Let's leave it at that]].
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* BrokenBase: The depiction of a topic as sensitive as abortion is obviously going to bring up some discourse, though in this case it was more about how it didn't even give the pro-life argument a chance: for the pro-choice side, many believe this was a nuanced and deep look at the abortion debate which raised important questions about women's rights over their own bodies. For the pro-life side, many people believe it was very one sided with a lot of ugly caricatures of their movement, and strawmanned many of their usual talking points. Then there's [[TakeAThirdOption a third party]] of ''very'' pro-choice people who agree that the episode wasn't like it ''specifically'' because it isn't subtle in the slightest about which side it was on, but are happy about seeing their views depicted this way.saying that pro-choice is good and pro-life is bad. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Let's leave it at that]].
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Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped isn't just "more people need to agree with this".
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* BrokenBase: The depiction of a topic as sensitive as abortion is obviously going to bring up some discourse, though in this case it was more about how it didn't even give the pro-life argument a chance: for the pro-choice side, many believe this was a nuanced and deep look at the abortion debate which raised important questions about women's rights over their own bodies. For the pro-life side, many people believe it was very one sided with a lot of ugly caricatures of their movement, and strawmanned many of their usual talking points. Then there's [[TakeAThirdOption a third party]] of ''very'' pro-choice people who agree that the episode wasn't subtle in the slightest about which side it was on, but feel that [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped it was justified because pro-life shouldn't be taken seriously to begin with]].are happy about seeing their views depicted this way. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Let's leave it at that]].
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Diane is made to go through several acts to inform her about her decision before getting an abortion, which is made [[TakeThat to criticize laws regulating abortion]]. This would be true in many red states that have these kinds of laws, if this wasn't in California which has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and where [[HollyWood Hollywoo]] takes place. And despite the presence of PettingZooPeople, the tone and message of episodes like this clearly place ''Bojack'' in "our" version of California.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Diane is made to go through several acts to inform her about her decision before getting an abortion, which is made [[TakeThat to criticize laws regulating abortion]]. This would be true in many red states that have these kinds of laws, if this wasn't in California which has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and where [[HollyWood Hollywoo]] takes place. And despite the presence of PettingZooPeople, {{Funny Animal}}s, the tone and message of episodes like this clearly place ''Bojack'' in "our" version of California.
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* BrokenBase: The depiction of a topic as sensitive as abortion is obviously going to bring up some discourse, though in this case it was more about how it didn't even give the pro-life argument a chance: for the pro-choice side, many believe this was a nuanced and deep look at the abortion debate which raised important questions about women's rights over their own bodies. For the pro-life side, many people believe it was very one sided with a lot of ugly caricatures of their movement, and strawmanned many of their usual talking points. Then there's [[TakeAThirdOption a third party]] of pro-choice people who agree that the episode wasn't subtle in the slightest about which side it was on, but feel that [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped it was justified because pro-life shouldn't be taken seriously to begin with]]. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Let's leave it at that]].
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The titular rap song by Aquafina is this in spades. That's what makes it so helpful to teens having a tough time with their abortions.
* CriticalResearchFailure: Diane is made to go through several acts to inform her about her decision before getting an abortion, which is made [[TakeThat to criticize laws regulating abortion]]. This would be true in many red states that have these kinds of laws, if this wasn't in California which has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and where [[HollyWood Hollywoo]] takes place.
** Of course, that is if this California is exactly like ours. The prevalence of PettingZooPeople would suggest otherwise.
The titular rap song by Aquafina is this in spades. That's what makes it so helpful to teens having a tough time with their abortions.
* CriticalResearchFailure: Diane is made to go through several acts to inform her about her decision before getting an abortion, which is made [[TakeThat to criticize laws regulating abortion]]. This would be true in many red states that have these kinds of laws, if this wasn't in California which has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and where [[HollyWood Hollywoo]] takes place.
** Of course, that is if this California is exactly like ours. The prevalence of PettingZooPeople would suggest otherwise.
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CrossesTheLineTwice: The titular rap song by Aquafina is this in spades. That's what makes InUniverse, it so helpful to teens having a tough time helps young women actually getting abortions take it with their abortions.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Diane is made to go through several acts to inform her about her decision before getting an abortion, which is made [[TakeThat to criticize laws regulating abortion]]. This would be true in many red states that have these kinds of laws, if this wasn't in California which has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and where [[HollyWood Hollywoo]] takes place. \n** Of course, that is if And despite the presence of PettingZooPeople, the tone and message of episodes like this California is exactly like ours. The prevalence clearly place ''Bojack'' in "our" version of PettingZooPeople would suggest otherwise.California.
* CriticalResearchFailure: Diane is made to go through several acts to inform her about her decision before getting an abortion, which is made [[TakeThat to criticize laws regulating abortion]]. This would be true in many red states that have these kinds of laws, if this wasn't in California which has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country and where [[HollyWood Hollywoo]] takes place.
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The titular rap song by Aquafina is this in spades. That's what makes it so helpful to teens having a tough time with their abortions.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Princess Caroline's frustration with Diane's decision (even though she respects it) is a lot more sobering after season 4's "Ruthie," when we learn that [[spoiler: she's incapable of carrying a baby to term and has had multiple miscarriages, making her feel inferior to her inversely fertile mother]]. To her, Diane getting pregnant by accident and not wanting the resulting baby isn't just ungrateful, it's ''unfair''!
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* HarsherInHindsight: Princess Caroline's frustration with Diane's decision (even though she ultimately respects it) is a lot more sobering after season 4's "Ruthie," when we learn that [[spoiler: she's incapable of carrying a baby to term and has had multiple miscarriages, making her feel inferior to her inversely fertile mother]]. To her, Diane getting pregnant by accident and not wanting the resulting baby isn't just ungrateful, it's ''unfair''!
