Would have been better sci-fi think about giving birth to someone who didn't ask to be born. Don't parents have kids for their own selfish reasons, more than what good they think they're doing to their currently nonexistent offspring? A promised utopia as an alternative needs to be called into question. (The crack about the profitability of the corporation implies that soylent green is people.)

But if they're going to make it about a lonely man manipulating a woman, then the whole story can't be about anything except power and gender.

I'm surprised "The Stranger" didn't shoehorn in a reference to Matt Hickey in this review -- seems like a missed opportunity.

The EC story "50 Girls 50" had a similar setup, and the creators thought that behavior was villainous back in 1953...

So you're saying you liked it as much as Love, Actually?