You have GOT to be kidding me

[lodessa]

So I was reading this Office fic. It's 4 Dunder Mifflin Employees finding out they are pregnant (and one not). To begin with I thought it was pretty good... but by the time I got to the 4th of 5 sections and Karen... like Kelly, Jan, and Angela had no thoughts whatsoever of not keeping the baby when she finds out she is pregnant I became pretty horrified.

Who is this person and what world do they live in?

Sure, Kelly I can see (after all she forgets to take her birth control pills accidentally on purpose). Jan the author built up the intentionality and it is canon that she wants kids. Angela... now I would have liked to see some sort of struggle here between believing that abortion is wrong and believing that being pregnant out of wedlock is wrong. I sort of thought it was implied though until I got to the next section. Karen, now that was fucking ridiculous. Karen is a somewhat ambitious, independent, non-traditional, woman. She isn't going to have her ex-boyfriend who ditched her for the receptionist's baby just because. There's no fucking way she'd assume she had to. The last section is not even getting discussed because... boring.

So yeah. I am seriously disturbed and actually pretty fucking enraged by this fic. I am not saying that they need to all (or even necessarily any) decide to have an abortion but that is doesn't even occur to them given the circumstances is fucking ridiculous and tells me horrendous things about the author's world view.

Comments

[qt-ninja.livejournal.com]

someone is mad...:)

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Yeah. This fic just really ticked me off.

I seem to have a temper recently.

[mojotastic.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I'm pretty sure I would have the same reaction to the fic. It's one thing if any of them *consider* the possiblity of not keeping it. But even *KAREN* not even thinking about alternatives just seems....weird?

Oh badfic, you damage the brain.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Weird to say the least.

I think what made it worse was that in other respects the fic wasn't bad really.

But yeah that hit all my buttons.