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This makes me sad to hear how far Ali Wong has fallen in her professional arena as a stand-up comedian and as a person. I found her comedy about motherhood and marriage to be very relatable, but I most definitely do not want to sit through her babbling on about wanting to cheat on her husband. It’s bad enough that this is happening all over the world where husband and wives are so very elastic, shall we say, about their marriage vows. Yet, we must admit, that art tends to imitate real life, and right now fewer young people are saying “yes” to marriage vows, and about the same numbers are saying “no thank you” to having children. So Ali Wong pandering to this growing subset of our society that sees no place for marriage or no need for marriage and the fidelity that it requires AND is rejecting parenthood because it’s too time consuming, too costly, and will cause scars on one’s body and one’s heart, it kinda makes sense, doesn’t it?

Our hook-up birth control culture with the very real possibility of abortion, the murdering of an innocent child, is what is predominant in our society now. We, who believe differently, who believe that marriage is a valid option for men and women and is a proven path to bring the whole family to the Lord and to eventual sainthood, and who believe that saying “yes” to the Lord about the possibility of new life is the beginning of the best adventure in life that is imaginable - I’m thinking of the comparison of marriage and parenthood to being on a rollercoaster in the movie, Parenthood - we need to be as vocal as possible in the voice the Lord has given us to help today’s deteriorating society realize the mistake of their thinking, be that in art, in the written word, in film, and in conversations with friends and family. We need to vote with our feet and our money to help the influencers understand how and why we feel pro-marriage and pro-family.

Thank you for your very candid review. Ali Wong had been one of my favorite stand-up comedians, and I’ve been wanting to go to one of her shows, but after reading this, maybe I don’t want this quite so much.

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