'My So-Called Selfish Life' is an engaging and incisive portrait of what it means to proclaim yourself “child-free” and the insidious forces at work driving women toward motherhood—whether they want it or not.
Shechter about her new film, edited for clarity and length.The Pope’s comments from last week about childless couples being selfish really struck me, as it seems to corroborate the thesis of your film.: I mean, the first thing to say is that the Pope said something almost identical to this in 2014. We actually used the clip of a newscaster talking about the Pope in our very first trailer, which we cut in 2017. When [the Pope said these things] in 2014, people thought it was kind of funny.
This debate over who’s more selfish is a distraction. It’s not the point. It’s just another powerful man telling women what to do with their bodies.Absolutely. We already know the Catholic Church’s stance, but your film demonstrates quite effectively that these kinds of views are coming from all over—not just from conservatives or religious institutions.
It is the same dynamic happening in popular culture, where female characters on TV shows who don’t have children tend to be portrayed as either angry or bitter or sad or in some way repellent. This is changing a little bit, but not that much. It goes into advertising; as I point out in the film, it’s rare to see a pregnancy test ad where someone is happy not to be pregnant.
And then it goes all the way up to the state level, to nations and their pronatalist policies. The other things I’ve mentioned up until now may be unpleasant, may be manipulative, but when you get to a national level, it can become horrifying. We have things that seem innocuous like payments for parents when they have children, which then turns into you never having to pay taxes again if you have
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