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11-12-2017, 03:23 AM
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/amelia-hamilton/2017/11/10/jane-virgin-character-comes-out-bisexual
By Amelia Hamilton | November 10, 2017 11:15 PM EST
Season three of Jane the Virgin was disappointing to me in its heavy-handed political content, and season four looks like it's going to hit us over the head with even more social justice storylines. The November 10 episode, "Chapter Sixty-Nine" (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/63341-s04e05-chapter-sixty-nine/?do=getLastComment) was big on sexuality and all the buzzwords that come with it in 2017.
Early in the episode, Jane's (Gina Rodriguez) mother Xiomara (Andrea Navedo) realizes that she has forgotten to take her birth control again. Jane asks her, "Why are you even still on the pill? There are so many other options. The ring, the shot, the patch, the cap..." which leads her mother to joke, "Look at you, Planned Parenthood."
Ah, Xiomara, thank you for reminding us that Planned Parenthood is supposedly a place that provides birth control for women that they couldn't possibly get it anywhere else, like all of these places. They did not mention the women who end up at Planned Parenthood for the hundreds of thousands of abortions they perform each year. Xiomara says that her husband, Jane's father, Rogelio (Jaime Camil) "just wants to pull out," leading to crass jokes about this method for the rest of the episode as she encourages him to have a vasectomy.
The biggest storyline of the episode deals with sexuality rather than sex. When someone recognizes Jane's boyfriend, Adam (Tyler Posey), and tries to remember from where, they look up mutual friends on social media.
By Amelia Hamilton | November 10, 2017 11:15 PM EST
Season three of Jane the Virgin was disappointing to me in its heavy-handed political content, and season four looks like it's going to hit us over the head with even more social justice storylines. The November 10 episode, "Chapter Sixty-Nine" (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/63341-s04e05-chapter-sixty-nine/?do=getLastComment) was big on sexuality and all the buzzwords that come with it in 2017.
Early in the episode, Jane's (Gina Rodriguez) mother Xiomara (Andrea Navedo) realizes that she has forgotten to take her birth control again. Jane asks her, "Why are you even still on the pill? There are so many other options. The ring, the shot, the patch, the cap..." which leads her mother to joke, "Look at you, Planned Parenthood."
Ah, Xiomara, thank you for reminding us that Planned Parenthood is supposedly a place that provides birth control for women that they couldn't possibly get it anywhere else, like all of these places. They did not mention the women who end up at Planned Parenthood for the hundreds of thousands of abortions they perform each year. Xiomara says that her husband, Jane's father, Rogelio (Jaime Camil) "just wants to pull out," leading to crass jokes about this method for the rest of the episode as she encourages him to have a vasectomy.
The biggest storyline of the episode deals with sexuality rather than sex. When someone recognizes Jane's boyfriend, Adam (Tyler Posey), and tries to remember from where, they look up mutual friends on social media.