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[–]anarchy753 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (28 children)

That's just ignorant. The article is talking about the onus being on men to be better about birth control, which they should be.

Suggesting that equates to vasectomies is like saying women should get a hysterectomy if they don't feel like getting pregnant right now.

[–]radfem[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (26 children)

There are roughly 900,000 accidental pregnancies per year in the US alone. A significant portion directly due to men pressuring or tricking women into having sex without a condom... At what point do we say that men can't be trusted to practise safe sex?

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (25 children)

I mean, isn't that also a direct result of those women not being on birth control themselves, and therefore just as guilty of not practising safe sex?

[–]radfem[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (24 children)

Literally all of your points are addressed within the article, you should give it a read, it's actually really interesting.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (23 children)

Like this gem?

Men seem unable (or unwilling) to admit that they cause 100% of them.

It's nonsense.

The side effects for many women include migraines, mood swings, decreased libido, depression, severe cramps, heavy bleeding, aneurysm — and that’s just a small fraction of them.

This is fake news. It's normal menstruation that cause those things, and there are types of birth control that stop menstruation completely.

Where would sex with a condom fall? A 7 or 8? So, it’s not that sex with a condom is not pleasurable, it’s just not as pleasurable. An 8 instead of a 10.

Actually for some loose women and older men, it's impossible to even maintain an erection with a condom. Enough of the womansplaining about men's pleasure please.

[–]radfem[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (21 children)

https://www.healthline.com/health/birth-control-side-effects

You’re totally right, like totally fake news.

Meanwhile according to the article why don’t we have male oral contraceptives?

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (20 children)

Because the trials for the male contraceptive had significant life threatening side effects, not the 1 in a million risk that female contraceptives have. You have to understand that those are the combined side effects for all the various types of female birth control out there. If one doesn't work for you, you can switch to another. You can even, god forbid, simply stay off them and avoid sex for the few days a month that you're fertile. The fact is that women that get accidentally pregnant just can't keep their legs shut long enough.

The article really is just pure ragebait garbage. At one point she's arguing for men to be castrated en masse to prevent abortions.

[–]radfem[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (17 children)

Umm no try again...

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47691567

Ps. If men don’t want to get a vasectomy why don’t they just avoid sex while they’re fertile and not looking to produce children.

[–]anarchy753 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

"JuSt DoN't HaVe SeX fOr 70 YeArS!!1!"

[–]radfem[S] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Yep it absolutely will not hurt any man. Unlike pregnancy which kills thousands of women annually.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

That's a new version afaik, in the very early stages of testing. Hope it gets approved. There's also a fully reversible vasectomy in the works that uses dissolvable inserts to block sperm. But until those are on the market, and as free as female birth control is, then the onus is all on women. Your body, your choice. If you don't want to get pregnant, take some responsibility for yourself.

I should also say, be careful what you wish for. Because there is an awful lot of birth control fraud out there. Women that claim to be on birth control but are not, in order to trick men into having children they do not want. If you give men power over birth control, larger numbers of women will grow old and die childless, miserable and alone.

[–]radfem[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/03/500549503/male-birth-control-study-killed-after-men-complain-about-side-effects

Actually as it turns out men are just babies when it comes to the mildest of side effects.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-happier-without-children-or-a-spouse-happiness-expert

Also women are happier unmarried and childless.

As I said... men really need to start embracing vasectomies and stop burdening women.

[–]bald-janitor 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

🙄

[–]yishengqingwa666 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You are lying.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not that simple. You can get pregnant while in your period. You can also get pregnant while on the pill.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have had horrible symptoms that didn't start until I got on birth control. When I went off of it they went away. It's pretty shitty to have to risk my health just so I can have sex.

[–]yishengqingwa666 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Vasectomies are minimally invasive, inexpensive and reversible. It is NOTHING like a hysterectomy.