{"id":56,"date":"2007-12-12T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=56"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:04:00","slug":"knocked-up-examined-more-closely-at-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2007\/12\/12\/knocked-up-examined-more-closely-at-slate\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKnocked-up\u201d examined more closely at Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <em>Slate,<\/em> Meghan O\u2019Rourke <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2179621\/nav\/tap3\/\" title=\"Slate\">turns the spotlight of her \u201cHighbrow\u201d column<\/a> to the sexist endorsement of male autonomy and female obligation in Judd Apatow\u2019s \u201cKnocked Up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s surprised to see misogyny in a movie with this title? \u201cHaving a baby\u201d is what happens when adult parents operate together to produce a child. When slovenly, unmotivated men underestimate their reproductive might, that\u2019s when a chick gets \u201cknocked up.\u201d It\u2019s a phrase that captures male potency and female receptivity as differences in power, rather than mechanically dissimiliar reproductive roles.<\/p>\n<p>(I do remain unconvinced that we should shed a tear for the demise of the \u2018female slacker\u2019.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Slate, Meghan O\u2019Rourke turns the spotlight of her \u201cHighbrow\u201d column to the sexist endorsement of male autonomy and female obligation in Judd Apatow\u2019s \u201cKnocked Up.\u201d Who\u2019s surprised to see misogyny in a movie with this title? \u201cHaving a baby\u201d is what happens when adult parents operate together to produce a child. When slovenly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2007\/12\/12\/knocked-up-examined-more-closely-at-slate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cKnocked-up\u201d examined more closely at Slate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}