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New What To Expect When You're Expecting Poster: Yup, Still Humiliating

New What To Expect When You're Expecting Poster: Yup, Still Humiliating

Neither the ladies nor the guys have emerged from the What to Expect When You're Expecting marketing miasma unscathed, but at least now we can get all of our ensemble humiliation out of the way in one convenient new one-sheet.
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What to Expect When You're Expecting Gets a Trailer for the Marginalized-Woman Era

What to Expect When You're Expecting Gets a Trailer for the Marginalized-Woman Era

I know we were kinda just talking about this, but at a point in time when women's rights and representation are threatened at seemingly every turn by bureaucrats, ideologues, campaign financiers and bald-faced misogynists, how predictable should it have been that the new trailer for What to Expect When You're Expecting — the best-selling, most influential maternity guide in the known universe — would marginalize the actual mothers and focus almost entirely on the guys? Don't change, Hollywood! Actually, yes. Maybe change just a bit.
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