Comments | americanheathen: Birth Contol, Sexism, and Real Men

americanheathen

Birth Contol, Sexism, and Real Men

Jul 18, 2009 03:18

As a responsible, sexually active woman, birth control is something that I'm all too familiar with. I've been on almost everything from the pill, to the Nuvaring, to low-dose hormone birth control pills, I've been thinking about getting an IUD so I wouldnt have to worry about birth control for 8+ years, and CONDOMS!! Always condoms!! So many ( Read more... )

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sayntmykl July 18 2009, 17:55:09 UTC

That's why I got clipped after my son was born.

americanheathen July 18 2009, 23:30:10 UTC

That's super awesome of you!! I want to like give you a cookie or a gold star or something.

mirrinight July 19 2009, 18:57:48 UTC

You can tell that there's a whoooole lot of sexism from the Christian groups on this front because they'll do nothing about items for male use in preventing pregnancies. Never mind that birth control is used for far more than just sexual things, while condoms and other male items are only for sexual activity -- they won't bother to try raising prices for anything for the guys, just for female items. If no other action by these groups shows how sexist Christian groups are, this does.

americanheathen July 23 2009, 22:14:48 UTC

Sorry for the late reply, was out of town ( ... )

tormented_xe July 26 2009, 06:55:17 UTC

hmm... I remember being in my Sex and Gender class a few months past and something similar to this ring from that past memory. Women have the right to choose abortion. The male truly has no say in weather to keep a child or not. The choice if only for the women. In that respect, must a male pay when in the end the women gets to choose.

I guess you can bring up the argument that males should put things where they know they'll get in trouble, but if you look back at the males of history and in the animal kingdom; the simple reason a male truly exist is to do just this. Spread their DNA in order for a species to evolve. The more you do it the more variation you'll have. If this wasn't so important males would not be needed.

no morality or ethic were used in the making of this response. (please note)

americanheathen July 28 2009, 09:25:53 UTC

I agree that the choice for or against an abortion lies with the woman. Though personally, Im not above asking the opinion of my partner, but thats me personally.

Really, I wasnt addressing abortion so much as I was contraception (as in things that prevent abortions from happening in the first place)

Still, you bring up some interesting points. Thanks for joining in the discussion.