I’ve gotten that question from anti-choice types as well. They’re generally nonplussed that my response is “Well, I would have been left motherless as a toddler, and my little brother wouldn’t exist if she hadn’t had access to safe and legal abortion, so I’m pretty cool with it. If she’d had the same complications…

Taking multiple birth control pills isn’t an abortion method, but taking a couple of birth control pills did used to be the less accurate equivalent of the morning after pill. Medical professionals would even recommend it. Obviously people shouldn’t do it anymore because there’s the actual morning after pill, which is…

I can honestly say, if my mom had felt the need to abort me, I would understand and be OK with it. I know anti-choice activists like to snakily ask that “Well what if your mom had an abortion?” and my thought it, if she’d needed to, and did, fine, because I love her and would have wanted her to do what was best for…

I was going to dismiss your post because it was literally one of the dumbest things I’ve read in weeks.

Color me surprised. Wait, don’t, because I know what the hell happened with desperate women in pre-Roe times.

No no, see the way it works is that a woman gets pregnant, and becomes blessed with a magical angel fetus, but then she gives birth and the angel fetus becomes the normal human baby of a whore mommy who couldn’t keep her legs shut and should be forced to shoulder all of the burden of care by herself as punishment.

The abortion “debate” has always been a choice between legal and illegal abortions, not between abortion and an absence of it. Any woman who’s been pregnant knows that there’s not a lot that will stop a woman who is determined either to terminate or carry their pregnancy.

This really goes to show that you’re either pro-choice, or you’re pro-illegal/unsafe abortion. I read that somewhere (possibly from another Jezebel commenter) and it has stuck with me ever since.

There are a lot of things that affect a woman’s libido, particularly the hormone changes around menopause, childbearing and as side effects of some medications. There are women who are “willing” who just can’t get aroused- it’s a real thing. It’s not just about not wanting sex for a variety of reasons and trying to…

Well, I can’t lie. I have sort of a soft spot in my heart for these magazines. I read a lot of them sitting on the futon couches of various straight pals in my college years. Laughing at their fashion advice, enjoying their Patrick Bateman-esque guides to seduction, tastefully flipping past the pages with the girls...

[(9 gunfighters at the OK Corrall) - (4 bankruptcies)] x [(2 ex-wives) + (3 levels to the Eiffel Tower)] = 25

Not a game, a movie. An action movie starring one true American hero and his dick- gun, I mean gun.

But seriously, the issues with female arousal run so much deeper than the mechanics of how a vagina works. This pill would have to be an antidepressant, anti-anxiety, muscle relaxing diuretic with some MDMA and a Zyrtec thrown in to actually work for me.

To be fair, it does seem a bit logical to me that if you’ve got 10 terrorists engaging hundreds of people who are armed, you could potentially decrease the total death toll compared to 10 terrorists engaging hundreds of unarmed people. *shrug*

How about both the drug is useless AND that sociologist is an idiot? Women can have sexual dysfunction. I am so sick of people arguing we can’t. We just deserve better than this.

Good. The drug’s astroturf campaign was unpleasant, as was its co-opting of women’s organizations to push a drug that barely works (10% of users experienced one extra sexual encounter a month), further negatively pathologizes low libido, and actively makes life kinda suck (for any user who wants to also enjoy a glass…

...............”women are supposed to refrain from alcohol while taking the daily pill.”

$780 a month? Indefinite alcohol ban? Tested on men? There is nothing about this story that doesn't make me smack my forehead.

This is the crux of the “good guy with a gun” issue, to me. These people are deeply invested in the Rambo fantasies in their minds, in which they—people who have often never fired a gun under actual stress—will magically be capable of defending themselves and others as if they’ve just undergone, like, extensive…

They had a better chance than regular civilians because they were expecting an attack. Being aware that something is coming will increase your chances of being able to do something, but this experiment shows that even knowing where the threat is ahead of time doesn’t help you. They still failed.