“My grandma bought my grandpa new pants and my mom asked him how they felt and he goes ‘like a cheaply made castle’ and we were like what and he goes ‘no ballroom.’” SHOW US YOUR BALLS, GRANDPA!

“Aren’t condoms cheap and easy to get?” is the refrain I always hear from people who accept that birth control is a good thing yet don’t want government to pay for it.

That was my thought exactly. With all this abstinence-only nonsense, if birth control use is actually increasing, there must be lots of teens getting their information from the internet these days.

No, seriously. Who the fuck are you that you get to decide what is the proper way to deal with hecklers?

I get what you are saying, but I usually counter when people make that argument, “Not wanting to have a kid is not good birth control. Birth control is good birth control.” I know what you meant, but personal pet peeve.

My birth control went from $15/month to $0/month and I’m not even insured through the ACA. I think it probably had a big effect.

In other news: fried food bad for your health

Especially if it’s about teaching them stick shift.

If the birth control use started increasing around 1995, and pregnancy rates started declining after 1991, it would seem to suggest that perhaps teens are using internet access to make up for abstinence-only teachings and the lack of sex education.

Gee, who could have predicted that outcome.

Yabut yabut if you don’t have the unwanted pregnancy, how you gonna punish the S-E-X?

Crazy, isn’t it? Almost like teaching kids how to drive makes more sense than a parent saying saying “I know you really want to go somewhere, but I’d prefer you ignore those keys on the table and the car sitting in the driveway and wait until you’re married before we talk about safe driving.”

Why is it so hard to understand that if you prevent a pregnancy, you prevent an abortion.

Hmm...it’s almost like teaching teens about proper contraceptive use leads to fewer pregnancies than teaching abstinence only.

Implement mandatory sex education and incentivize insurers to offer free birth control for women everywhere, and you will make a greater dent in national (and eventually, global) poverty than anything Bernie Sanders could ever accomplish, even in his wildest dreams. Greater than trade, the minimum wage, capital gains…

Huh, that’s weird- I thought the key to decreasing teen pregnancies is to advocate abstinence while simultaneously keeping teens in the dark about contraceptives and sex-education in general, while relying on them to exercise restraint when it comes to their hormonally-charged bodies.

In your opinion that’s what the good ones would have done. Your opinion =/= fact.

“I used to date Mexicans but now I’m into consensual sex”

At this point I’m having to assume you’re looking for a reason to be angry that feminists exist. It’s not fair to guys or something. All feminists are whiners, etc. I'm a white heterosexual male and I'm struggling to frame your outrage as you can't seem to do it for yourself.