I get that, it’s more the title that bugs me. It’s too general.

I get where she’s coming from, but it’s true only for a small subset of women and it doesn’t acknowledge that. And those women are free to choose other birth control methods. The title is ridiculous.

I definitely understand both sides. Hell, I’m currently pretty ambivalent about pregnancy.

That’s a perspective I hadn’t even considered, even though I’m an “accident.” I totally agree.

I am not “worked up,” nor do I have “ire.” I just think the title is silly and there’s a better way of phrasing it.

Yeah, it's not the concept that I have an issue with. It's the lack of acknowledgement that this only true for a subset of privileged women.

There’s also women who, medically, cannot do pregnancy. I had cancer this year (thankfully, don’t anymore) and was getting chemo every two weeks, tons of x-rays and a few PET scans. If I had gotten pregnant, I would’ve had to have an abortion b/c pregnancy wouldn’t have been safe for me or the fetus.

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’s probably just on par with people who use condoms incorrectly. Most don’t use them correctly.

This is reading really privilege-y to me. There are some who have the privilege of accidental pregnancies being okay, or even welcomed. If that’s you, then don’t get an IUD. No one is making women get IUDs if they don’t want them.

Had to Google. Laughed.

Considering the amount of people who own ZERO guns, that is terrifying. HOW MANY GUNS DO SOME PEOPLE HAVE?!

Yes, I have. It was my first job out of college, and it was tangentially related to domestic and sexual violence prevention, so it was fine.

Yeah, that’s why it’s Mr. and Mrs. John Doe. She is Mr. John Doe’s. At least that’s what my Intimate Relationship and Marriage teacher told me.

Unfortunately, I did not get to tell them off. The most I could do was give a vaguely sarcastic, “The state of [censored] does not consider leaving children with a babysitter to be abuse or neglect.”

I used to work at a state child abuse/neglect hotline. You would not BELIEVE the amount of people that called to complain that parents (mostly moms) LEFT THEIR CHILDREN (with another appropriate adult caregiver) so they could DRINK and PARTY!

There’s also a difference between saying it to/in front of your kid and saying it to a friend.

That makes me feel

Wait, can we go back to the forcible blood donations? What sort of Orwellian bullshit is this?

Hmm... Then my Human Development and Family Studies professor told me wrong. I wonder where she heard it. I’ll have to do some digging.