"Knocked Up" is a movie about a 23 year old Jewish Canadian man's struggle to come to terms with the fact that he will soon be a father, because he accidentally got a women pregnant on a drunken one night stand. Ben Stone's (the main character) situation is made all the more difficult by the fact that he has basically nothing in common with Alison Scott (the women that he impregnated), but that appears to be the norm through out the movie. In fact it appeared to me that every couple in the movie had nothing in common with one another, whereas every guy in the movie seemed to get along famously with one another. After some consideration, I decided that this phenomenon could only be explained by the fact that this movie portrays women in a rather sexist fashion in comparison to men.
For example, when Alison discovered that Ben didn't really read the baby books that he promised to read she confronted him about it. However the ensuing argument left her looking like the bad guy because after Ben explained that he was sorry and that he simply forgot to read the books she was still upset. But she had a good reason to be angry, because Ben was being an irresponsible person, and that scared her because it made her question whether Ben could ever be a good father to her child. Similar instances occur through out the entire movie time and time again as we watch the "fun-loving, goofy, and lovable" guys slip up and get yelled at by the "humorless and uptight" women.
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