It’s rare that Saturday Night Live will join conservatives to critique liberal cultural excesses. When the show does, it’s rather telling.
In a recent sketch, three couples, two heterosexual couples and one gay couple, are socializing. The gay couple has a new baby. The other couples, shocked at the news, began to ask questions about the child, such as, “Where did it come from?”
Immediately, the gay couple launch into defense, demonizing anyone who dares to ask about their new baby: “Excuse me? Wow. You are not allowed to talk like that. It’s so invasive.”
The other couples ask how they ended up with a newborn and where they suddenly procured a baby.
Humorously, the gay couple responds, “People think they can ask gay people anything. It’s not ok.”
They go on to decry both transphobia and homophobia, and the end is spot-on.
One of the exasperated friends, still trying to figure out where the baby came from, asks, “But how did you get it?”
Comedian Bowen Yang’s character replies, “It? You mean she/they, until he tells us otherwise.”
The increasingly unhinged sketch mocks the far Left and its pronoun-obsessed culture. Given the stranglehold the Left has on news and entertainment, the loud, extreme minority often drowns out the traditional majority.
The scene mirrors life in modern-day America. We must tiptoe around certain groups and use correct language, or else we’ve committed a grave cultural crime. We see the rush to cancel others for daring to rebel against liberal ideology.
The sketch also implicitly criticizes the under-regulated surrogacy industry. While surrogacy may seem to be something only celebrities and wealthy people do, it is growing in popularity. According to a Forbes article titled “It’s Not Just Celebrities – Commercial Surrogacy Industry Expected To Grow Tenfold By 2032,” the boom is “led by growing infertility cases, more same sex couples looking to have children and heightened awareness about reproductive options thanks to celebrity endorsers and an increasing number of fertility clinics.”
Basically, if anyone wants to have a baby, they can shop around and buy one. Whether they’re well-suited to parenthood or can provide a safe, loving, nurturing environment to raise a child does not matter. If you want a baby, you can have one. And the sketch shows that merely questioning such a decision is offensive.
The characters never get to learn where the baby came from, and that by itself is one of the main moral problems with surrogacy. While adoption involves a mother who is unable or unwilling to raise a child, surrogacy essentially creates a mother-child relationship with the express intent of ripping the child from its biological mother. And for what? Because the customers, gay or straight, believe they deserve a family.
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Perhaps the sketch proves we’re all collectively fed up with some of the social nonsense shoved in our faces. No, SNL hasn’t turned a corner. It is not about to embrace tradition or conservatism. But it’s refreshing to see a mainstream show highlighting some of our cultural decay in a manner that quietly suggests some leftists are annoyed, too.
As the SNL bit shows, the rules we’re told to follow to avoid offending others are seemingly endless. Each disobedience is seen as a great affront to a small group that is somehow allowed to dominate. It’s exhausting and impossible to keep up with, and SNL seems to agree.
Kimberly Ross (@SouthernKeeks) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog and a contributing freelance columnist at the Freemen News-Letter.