The “controversy” over the FDA approving the pill Lybrel, which is just a non-stop birth control pill that stops your period, speaks volumes about Americans’ general back-assedness. Women in other countries have been using pills to stop the inconvenience of having periods for something like decades now, but Americans, we have to freak the fuck out over this. A nation of techno-lovers can turn into a nation of Luddites at the very hint of women benefitting from technology in any way. At Feministing, Ann found that ABC News is already running with the “bitches are out of control” angle. This is the titular sentence that diagnoses our collective insanity:
It’s unclear whether women will embrace this new pill, which contains the same formulations of estrogen and progestin used for birth control pills for decades, but its arrival marks yet another step toward the blurring of the genders.
Did Tampex pay for this article or something? “First, women quit having periods and next thing you know, they’ll start peeing standing up. Before you know it, men will be cleaning toilets on their hands and knees!”
Not that this should surprise me. This is a nation that harbors a distressingly large number of fundamentalists, many of whom take “the curse” as just more evidence that god hates women and put them on earth to wait on men.
As 21st century women dominate the universities and continue to climb the executive ladder, and metro-sexual men explore their feminine side, it’s harder to define what it means to be a woman.
Between having rights and not having periods, how will you ever know you’re a woman? If only there was some other way to tell, perhaps different organs than men or something.
If you want to see this attitude amped up to an insane level, though, you have to check out this video at Think Progress of sex-loathing wingnut extraordinaire Leslee Unruh screaming about how this is just more evidence that our nation has committed itself to baby-hating. Because if you don’t pop one out a year and sell the ones you can’t keep (at least if you’re white), then you must hate babies. There is no middle ground on the baby-loving vs. baby-hating issue. One swallow of the birth control pill and you’re using infants for target practice. It really works that way. It’s also up on YouTube:
No amount of hyperbolic satire from me could really do this video justice, I’m afraid. Unruh’s world is so black and white she seems to think that feminists are on a jihad against anything at all coming out of anyone’s vagina, ever, whether babies or menstrual blood. How she thinks abortions work is beyond me—maybe they pull it out of your mouth?
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