From Mala Bhattacharjee
I'm not opposed to a rowdy Girls' Night Out or two. In fact, I have them with my own galpals. But this week's outing on GENERAL HOSPITAL has gotten me rowdy in the wrong way. No, it's not because they were objectifying women by having them dance on a pool table. No, it wasn't Coleman leering (I kinda love Coleman and wish we'd see more of him). No, it wasn't even Patrick and Leo lambasting the gals for their views on fatherhood. It was Lainey, Kelly, Nadine, Elizabeth and Robin themselves.

Soaps are all about babies and baby stories and "Who's the Daddy" stories and fertility stories, but as far as I know, women aren't. We come in all shapes, all sizes, and all mindsets. Why isn't there at least one woman on a soap who likes the single, childless life — and isn't labeled a hoochie or a tramp? There is only rhetoric along the lines of Robin's view: that having a child is "the most profound thing a woman ever does in her entire life." Nice to know that those who feel family can still be valid with just a spouse or a pet or your five best friends aren't leading profound lives. The last holdout from the list I rattled off above, Kelly, even broke down and admitted she'd have a baby with the right guy — at which point I shook my fist and cried, "Nooooo!" like William Shatner crying "Khaaaaaaaan!" Come on, people, what's wrong with getting a puppy? A cat? A ficus?

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