What to Expect When You’re Expecting is the latest and most extreme example of Hollywood baby propaganda: the rising movement among mainstream Hollywood films to include scenes that push the idea of parenthood to a white middle-class which is no longer procreating. It seems like I can hardly watch a mainstream feel-good movie without some damn scene of a white woman giving birth while screaming her head off, who subsequently becomes overwhelmed with the feeling that her life suddenly and finally at long last has meaning, where before it was a nightmare of emptiness and sorrow.

What explains this nonsense? I think it is all somehow emanating from white racist paranoia of certain sectors of the American elite. Think back to the 70’s and 80’s. There were almost no instances of movies blatantly and simplistically glorifying the act of giving birth, or pushing the idea that the only way to have meaning in your life was to raise a kid. In fact, my memory is that the opposite message was seen quite often. Why the change? It’s easy: minorities are reproducing and whites are not, and rich, racist fucks are getting nervous.

Consider the message of this movie. All the white couples (with one important exception) have babies and are insanely fulfilled. The only white couple who fails to have a baby got pregnant out of wedlock – draw your own moral conclusions from that. The “brown” couple, on the other hand, they are not able to have a baby; they have to adopt one from Ethiopia.

Then there are all the white dads, who along with Chris Rock form a pack of lobotomized men who are, we are asked to believe, blissfully happy to walk around pushing strollers all day. These guys are so unbelievable they come across like demented caricatures from a Monty Python skit.

The only good thing about this film is Chase Crawford and Anna Kendrick. They are a superb screen couple, amazingly warm and talented, and someone should write a movie for them to star in all by themselves, preferably without any obnoxious baby propaganda.