TWO KINDS OF CRAZY (BITCHES)

I love that scene in "Knocked Up" where the two sisters talk about going out and having fun. They grab each other and scream, "Eeee!", as though the guys writing the film couldn't think of anything for them to say.

So many pivotal parts of the movie are based on that idea, that women are irrational and don't have to explain their decisions. The entire movie is predicated on Katherine Heigl's seeming irrationality, like, Why would she want to keep this baby? Why would she want to inform the father? Why would she want to have a relationship with him? Why wouldn't she even consider having an abortion?

The anti-abortion vibe expressed by the other characters is so dated and strange. Her mother comes across as insane, cold, and brutal, suggesting only insane, cold, and brutal women would consider it. Ben's father is warm and loving and "feelgood" and suggests even mistake-babies could turn out to be the greatest gift any prospective father could have. And "abortion" can't even be voiced by Ben's friends, instead referred to as something that "rhymes with," and in a way that suggests it's a joke, not something to seriously contemplate.

The other pivotal scene is the sister's discovery of her husband's peccadillo-- a fantasy baseball league, not the secret love tryst she believes to be interrupting. You would think any normal woman would be embarrassed and chastised by her paranoia, but no, she still holds his innocent pastime as a betrayal, because, it seems, wives demand absolute transparency. Oh, what the guys have to abandon to conform to the wedded ideal!

It's almost as though the two sisters are two stages of womenhood-- Single and Married. Katherine Heigl is the beautiful loving successful woman who accepts all Ben's faults, for whom any man would give up his fantasy extracurricular activities to marry, and Leslie Mann is the ball-breaking bitch who's no longer so indulgent. They're out to trick you, guys! Once your married, everything changes!