“TAKE IT AWAY… AND BRING ME ANOTHER LOVER!”: A quick expansion on part of my comments below about Do the Right Thing: You know how I said that Withnail & I was fantastic, but more self-indulgent and less scathing than Absolutely Fabulous? The same thing is going on in DTRT (and with much less justification)–children are absent in W&I;, which is exactly right, but which does draw the movie’s fangs a bit; but in DTRT they are not even a subplot, just a plot device.

For W&I; children are irrelevant. That’s fine–I really love that movie–but it means the movie can’t be as horrible as possible.

For DTRT children exist, but aren’t real. That’s… yeah, consistent with the view of male human nature I’ve formed over five years of working at a crisis pregnancy center. Sorry.

For AbFab, children may be vicious little rodents, but at least they’re real. [eta: I love Saff, she’s awesome if scary, but my point is that even if you take the perspective of the immature adults all around her, she still matters and affects their lives.]

Which one was written by a woman? You get three guesses, and the first two don’t count.