The choice to always use condoms, abstain or get a vasectomy? I would agree to terminating paternal obligations but on very specific terms. A certain time frame - you can’t be all about the pregnancy and then peace out when faced with a squalling infant, and there’s no trying to amend the agreement if Junior shows a…

It’s coming off as ridiculously tone-deaf to me considering a planned parenthood just got shot up, putting people (like me) who are desperate for birth control in a life-or-death situation. “Mourning the accidental pregnancy?”

It also comes across as ridiculously anti-feminist. We’re cyborgs (read as: abnormal) now because we won’t (intentionally or accidentally) reproduce? Fuck off with that.

This is may be the dumbest, most assbackward thing I think I’ve read in a loooong time (discounting pos MRA and anti-abortionist type crap, obviously). IUDs are super effective because that is what the women who use them want. They don’t want to chance a pregnancy and want to take as much precaution against it as…

I’m a well off white woman and a pregnancy would really fuck me over. You don’t see too many pregnant mechanics out there.

Tracy Moore Episode 321: in which the author wanders into her echo chamber to ask if more people shouldn’t just live like her so they could be happy too.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to talk about, I think it’s unreasonable to talk about it like this. See mimaw’s reply, I think they nailed it.

It really does read that way. As though contraception doing what it is supposed to do is now bad. If a woman is undecided about wanting a baby, then an IUD is not the right option for them. There is far too much romanticism regarding unplanned pregnancies. Poor women in particular have few resources when it comes to…

“It’s fine if you don’t want to have a baby, but are you suuuuuure you don’t want to have a baby? Maybe you should get pregnant and see!” is sort of what I was getting from this article.

There’s also something creepy about the subtle “accidental pregnancies may make some childfree-by-choicers someone embrace motherhood” message. Sure, it’s true for some, but overall, isn’t giving women as much control over what happens to their body as possible for the best?

"Abrasive" is a word that is almost solely applied to women. In men we call that "assertive." Ponder that word choice.

Not that she's wrong, but she's incredibly dismissive and it must not exist if 'she' ( and katia82 sounds like a 21 year old male philosophy major) hasn't experienced it. It's simply not possible for someone assigned female at birth not to experience sexism on one level or another in North America.

Eh, you still sound very....desperate? To show me how down-ass and liberal you are, and how you're "not like other girls" and haven't "experienced sexism". The fact that you had to tell me you were into math and sports shows me you have experienced it. Sexism is systemic, and it hurts us all.

Well over 50% of Canadian law students are female, actually, and most people who go into law come from an arts/humanities background. It doesn't seem to make a difference. It's not like a STEM discipline, where women are underrepresented. I will say that, at least in my experience, there were a lot of young white men…

Maybe it depends on where you are and what you're doing. I am Canadian and lived on the West Coast for several years, and I saw a lot of men interrupting/talking over women both in law school and in the practice of law.

Depressing anecdote somewhat related: My new job has a "diversity counsel" made up of six white men. It was such a bummer to see that.

Even the comment, "I will allow you to finish" exudes unconscious bias, just sayin'.

Who thought it was a good idea to have two white dudes on a panel about diversity?

Imma let you finish. Wait, no I'm not; I have a penis.

As I've said previously, there is a HUGE difference between your child posting a picture of you and some random kid using it, as part of their campaign on Twitter to "win" you as a prom date.