Monday 20 August 2012

Birth Control For Men Edges Closer

Women, who now have essentially the ability to get pregnant when they want to...

Wait, what? Women need someone having sex with them, unprotected sex to be specific, in order to get pregnant. It's covered in health class, right after the video on how to conduct testicular exams.

... will have to ask a man for permission to become pregnant, maybe even beg for permission to be a mother.

The man already has effective birth control: It's called a condom. Remember that demonstration with the cucumber?

Do they actually understand the shift in reproductive power that unthinking feminists have been pushing for for so long?

Women have to carry the baby for 9 months. Men just have to give it a few thrusts and a little squirt. And societal expectations haven't changed on who's responsible for junior either: A man running away from his parental responsibilities is common and tolerated. A woman who does this is shamed by her family and friends. And if both parents abandon their responsibilities, the child is usually raised by the women in the woman's family.

Think of pregnancy as revenge etc., an act of aggression.

Right... she held you down and rode your dick, then stuck you with child support. And all the other times she didn't, and you had a chance to put on a condom...?

Male contraception empowers men in a way that women may not find so "fair."

The condom empowers men too. Nobody considers it unfair.

Perhaps we are not really projecting the changes easy male contraception in pill form will bring in the future as its benefits to men become widely perceived by them.

I doubt the pill will bring about any real social change; There's already effective male birth control, it's called a condom. Men don't want to wear it. Giving them more choices in birth control won't result in a significant change; A lot of men will then not wear a condom or take the pill or get their tubes tied. Giving people options doesn't make them more responsible. Male birth control won't cause a paradigm shift. If you ask me, it'll just be more evidence of what those feminists you seem to hate so much have been saying all along: Until social expectations of men and women are the same, any observations we make on the difference in behavior between men and women will continue to reflect our own prejudices.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/8TNXRT24Oyk/birth-control-for-men-edges-closer

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