I said society. The word ‘men’ isn’t even in the thing I said that you quoted. Much less ‘all men’. Both men and women saw reproduction as a woman’s responsibility. Can you explain why that’s a sexist thing to say? Or, if it’s not true, why nobody tried to research male hormonal birth control at the same time they were researching female hormonal birth control?

Also, I didn’t have to look that up. It’s common knowledge. But, as I said, there’s no reason to believe your claim that barrier methods were ever solely men’s responsibility. You didn’t even really offer evidence or a justification for that claim.

I also never said men are pricks. I said that the responsibility to use barrier methods isn’t always on men and that women who have casual sex with men could easily confirm that. There’s people who are being responsible and people who are being irresponsible of any gender. Once again, I’m just taking issue with your claim that barrier methods are and always were men’s responsibility.

100% agree. The fact that they’re only researching it now has been hurting everyone involved.

Can you please point out the thing I said that you consider sexist, and why? I’m striving not to be, and like to learn where I can.

Ok I’ll ignore the name calling one last time.

I’ll put it super simply, in the hope that you misunderstanding me wasn’t as intentional as it comes across

1. barrier methods have always been, and continue to be, a shared responsibility

2. all other non-permanent methods have been purely on women until very recently.

Exactly, and at that point, does it make sense to consider that person the same as the one from the new testament?

I think a big point of contention in the debate is that people say ‘Jesus was(n’t) real’ without clarifying whether they mean the former or the latter bit of your comment. I have a hunch there’d be more agreement if everyone was more clear. Thanks for the helpful comment!

This sounds like it would make sense on the surface, but is just not true. You can look up pretty easily that there wasn’t really any research on the viability of male hormonal birth control until half a century after female hormonal birth control became a thing, so it’s not like they made a rational decision based on scientific findings. When they found out how to do it for men, it was roughly comparably complicated, with similar side effects. This too is easy to look up.

It makes sense that the side effects were too much to legalize hormonal male birth control because today’s standards are much higher. Which is a good thing ofc- im glad they don’t allow new medication as easily as they did in the past. Female birth control wouldn’t be legalized if it was invented today, and neither would, for example, aspirin. They get to stay around because they don’t take that stuff back out usually, even if it wouldn’t pass modern standards. That’s a bit of a tangent though.

Why is everyone in this thread acting like men are always the ones providing and insisting on using barrier methods? Have yall talked to a woman who’s had casual sex before about what it’s like out there?

It’s less of a conspiracy and more that it didn’t even occur to society until pretty recently (in historical terms) that reproduction isn’t solely a woman’s responsibility

Should combine that with brown lentil Bolognese. That’s my (also vegan btw) poop-even-better-than-usual food.

Hm, I think it SHOULD be about injury risk, which is a combination of speed and damage upon impact. The latter is a combination of speed and mass. And it looks heavy.

This is a great concept, with two big BUTs.

1)this shouldn’t be allowed on a bike lane, or, god forbid, sidewalk 2) it should require a license

Otherwise, people get hurt.

Right there with you! Stay strong, it’s tough, but so worth it.

One time I made a Carrie costume. Sewed a dress from old sheets and drenched myself in homemade fake blood (starch+cocoa powder+food dye). Only then did I realize I’d permanently stain any coat I’d put over that. So I just went out in my thin, sleeveless dress. It was snowing.

If it makes you feel any better, the diagnosis doesn’t really help this. It’s just less ‘you don’t even know for sure you’re x’ and more ‘stop blaming your x for everything’.

It really depends on whether you want the newest games with 128k graphics. I game on a 5 year old Thinkpad* and a first gen switch and am happy about it.

*granted, it was refurbished and still like 2700€, but the same laptop would be cheaper today

They just said especially for protests, implying you’d best do it more often than that. Didn’t want anyone to take them too literally.

Thanks for this reminder that I can ardently disagree with someone’s opinion and still think absolutely nothing less of them.

I’d strongly advise against doing this every day. I developed osteoarthritis in my 20s just from my feet being slightly misaligned. Walking wonky can very easily permanently wreck your joints.

Given enough time and known lengths, most of my students should be able to calculate the surface area of this by the time they graduate. They’d just split everything into triangles and quadrangles, use the formula for each, then add everything together. It’s not that useful of an exercise though, didactically speaking, because once you grasp that process, it’s just repetitive and lengthy. There’d have to be a LOT of given values to make this solvable, too.

On a more subjective note, they can also form sentences. They just don’t want to when colloquial speech brings the point across just as well and it’s an informal setting. The same is true for most people of all ages in my experience.

Cursive is wayyyy more accessible for lots of people with chronic pain in their arm/hand/wrist. Also helps prevent those conditions for those who have do a lot of hand writing. I dread the day that people will no longer be able to read the least painful way to write or me.