One year later, we're still here. Thank you, Seattle, for your resilience and readership throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Contributions from our readers are a crucial lifeline for The Stranger as we write our new future. We're calling up legislators, breaking down what's going on at Seattle City Hall, and covering the region's enduring arts scenes thanks to assistance from readers like you. If The Stranger is an essential part of your life, please make a one-time or recurring contribution today to ensure we're here to serve you tomorrow.
We're so grateful for your support.
Comments are closed.
Commenting on this item is available only to members of the site. You can sign in here or create an account here.
Sign up for the latest news and to win free tickets to events
Buy tickets to events around Seattle
Comprehensive calendar of Seattle events
The easiest way to find Seattle's best events
All contents © Index Newspapers LLC
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
Comments
Obama Administration's Birth Control Mandate
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert…
Women visit America's Planned Parenthoods to be hooked up to Yaz force-feeding tubes like sex-crazed, foie gras geese.
Of course, the solution isn't to flip your shit and ban contraception, but rather to establish good water treatment procedures. Should we ban electricity because some power plants can cause pollution?
I the meantime I'll go look for the RPS.
Way to go against God's will, ladies. Think of all the babies you're murdering once a month!
Don't pregnant women also excrete a high level of estrogen? I mean, that's the entire basis of urine pregnancy tests. If women were to do the Catholic church's bidding and be pregnant all the time, I don't think our fresh water would be in any better shape.
Oh wait, as a "class 1 carcinogen," the pill also selectively mutates your ability to make pheromones, allegedly.
I'm a dumbass, thank you.
@26,
Whatever the number, I think this calls for new legislation: a gay best friend for every straight woman who wants one.
@29: Good point. Judging by the results of a quick web search, women on birth control would be a very minor source of estrogen pollution.
Fucking nutjob Catholics.
Ahh... good stuff. Does anyone else have the urge to go out and restock their condom supply now?
Contrasepting? Bad grammer. Silliness, but production value will trump facts.
Rah Rah Ras- Puteen!
Russia's greatest love machine.
http://youtu.be/tMN0SO3SHZ8
(Jack Harkness' speech in the first episode of Torchwood)
oh and: half the homosexuals have more than 500 partners? BOY i have some serious catching up to do. can anyone send a bunch fo studs over for me and my husband please he definitely lets the community down too ...
what utter bs ...
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/05…
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21…
If you have a monogomish relationship all is cool. If you expect to stay with one guy for ever, you may be setting yourself up for problems.
@44 - I'm at work and I think I injured myself trying to stifle the laugh on that one. That was great :)
So ... if contracepting ::shudders:: corrupts the water supply turning men gay from the estrogen, then WHY aren't ALL men gay by now? After all, they've had 50 years drinking altered water created by a couple generations of women taking all these hormones.
Um ... so would the learned ::coughs trying to suppress laughter:: sisters be able to tell me HOW lesbians are created? Huh??? ::giggles:: Maybe it was because so many men turned gay, women had no options. ::giggles some more::
And, finally, they believe the world would be following God's plan if there were NO contraceptin' (sounds downright homey with the dropped vowel) to thwart their deity's power. Um ... in that case, WHY does God kill so many women and/or their fetuses? Is God confused? Or lashing out at women who may actually want to be pregnant? But, seriously, these nuns probably do a lot of hand-waving to explain away the percentage of pregnancies that end naturally via an early miscarriage (especially if the embryo was not considered to be viable).
I can tell these sisters long for simpler times, when women were tied to their kitchens and broods - when an extra mouth to feed wasn't a hardship. In fact, it was the opposite. Without protective labour laws, the kids were put to work on the family farm or - if in the city - sent out to earn whatever they could, in sweatshops and other forms of manual labour. Yup ... it was a real utopia. Ugh. Just ugh.
Which begs the question does eastrogen level of water has anything to do with human sexuality? A cursory google search wasn't helpful.
Contraceptives turning men gay and lack of space rather than lack of resources being the main threat posed by overpopulation... that's fine! But getting the units wrong- No! What a screw up! We can't let the world be misled by this piece of misinformation!
And can't resist the urge to follow the "logic" of this video to it's conclusion.
A woman is only attractive to men when she is fertile and exuding fertile lady pheromones. Which allows her to attract a man, who marries her and fucks her fertile little lady parts, causing her to become pregnant - at which point, her husband ceases to be attracted to her because she's not exuding fertile female pheromones now. So her husband ... becomes gay?
Women being pregnant causes homosexuality!
A woman's only answer is to use her fertile pheromones to attract a husband. And then never have sex with her husband, lest she fall pregnant and turn her husband gay.
I might be attracted to a "bad-boy" type, but my higher self knows that they are more likely to treat me poorly and/or cheat or leave me. So I don't mate with them. Even in the throes of extreme physical attraction or love, we all have the choice to think rationally. It's called listening to your "head" rather than your "heart". Our capacity for critical thinking is what separates us from the lower animals and makes us uniquely human.
If birth control affects society in such negative ways, what about the REALLY extreme reproductive technologies like IVF and artificial insemination?
I might be naturally attracted to a "bad-boy" type, but my higher self knows that they are more likely to treat me poorly and/or cheat or leave me. So I don't mate with them. Problem solved. Even in the throes of intense physical attraction or love, we all have the choice to think rationally and make decisions. It's called listening to your "head" rather than your "heart". Our capacity for critical thinking is what separates us from the animals and makes us uniquely human.
If birth control affects society in such negative ways, what about the REALLY extreme reproductive technologies like IVF and artificial insemination?
Why do conservative religious types always demonize birth control and abortion when many other behaviors like gene mapping, foster parenting and surrogacy have far more real-world impact? Two reasons: sexism and control.
They want women to be subservient in a nuclear family setting where their entire existence revolves around caring for their husbands and child-rearing. If a woman has sex, they believe she should face the consequences (i.e. pregnancy), even though the "consequence" is an unwanted child. Nevermind the horrible existence the innocent child will face in a family that is not emotionally or financially able to care for them. No, the woman must suffer at all costs.
They believe sex is a purely reproductive function and that sex for pleasure alone is evil or immoral. Men are supposed to be fruitful and sow their seed far and wide while women who have multiple partners outside of marriage are whores. Men are not responsible if they rape a woman or lust after her--the woman was "asking" for it by the way she dresses or carries herself. Women must take on all the burden of actually giving birth and raising the child while the man lives his life in an immature, carefree state.
A woman is merely a vessel for a fetus, and if she decides to terminate the pregnancy for any reason, she is a murderous slut. Nevermind that it's her own body and the fetus is a parasite that can't survive outside her womb. The fetus's rights trump the adult woman's rights every time.
It's a backward and dangerous way of thinking.