Failed Sexual Politics

Unsuprisingly, Dana Stevens pans the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler movie: 

Baby Mama's overdetermined happy endingI won't give it away, but you'll know in advance anyway, thanks to half a dozen cuesdoes the movie's theme a disservice by copping out on the whole notion of alternative family (a condescending term in itself, but that's another matter). As in Knocked Up, what at first appears to be at least a mildly subversive vision of sexual politics soon reverts to an endorsement of heterosexual and biological norms. For all the methods we've invented of making babiesin test-tubes, with turkey basters, in the wombs of other women or even transmenHollywood still prefers its leading ladies to put a rock on their finger and push one out the old-fashioned way.