Men on Birth Control
Yesterday, I asked my guy friends if he would take birth control if it was one for men. Based on class discussion. Here were the answers:
- Men would not take birth control because it is a women's job to protect herself from pregnancy, besides, she has to take care of it.
- Men do not want to deal with the side effects of birth control
- Men would not take birth control because that's why condoms were invented.
- Men would take birth control because they would prevent them from having kids, thus they know its not there's.
- Men would take birth control because they would not have to use a condom.
These answers was very interesting to me because none of them were in the interest of women, all of them were in the interest of men. The most astonishing to me of all of the answers was number one. Its not just a women's job to protect themselves from pregnancy. Although she has to carry it for nine months by herself, it is better when both the parents are there to raise the child. Number two was also interesting because if men do not want to deal with the effects of birth control, why should women. These answers showed me how men viewed women. My view is if a man is not willing to protect himself like a women is willing to protect herself, then the two have no business being together and vise versa. Unless the two of you want the outcome of a child.
this...this just infuriates me how men can be so lazy "that's the women s job" i hate that saying so much.
ReplyDeleteThis is really frustrating. Why should only one person be responsible for the consequences of something that two people are participating in? I also found it interesting that the side effects of birth control would be intolerable for men, but they expect women to take it? I wonder what side effects would be worth it, if any at all would be tolerable?
ReplyDeleteAnd yet it's still mostly male lawmakers who get to decide the regulations surrounding women's issues... :(
ReplyDeleteSomething my mom always told me was that "it takes two to tango," and that means it's the responsibility of BOTH of those two people for birth control. If you're partaking in consensual intercourse, you both need to be responsible for birth control, it's not the job of the woman to do it, and it's not the job for the man to do it. You both need to be safe if you both want to remain childless. I never understood the "blame-game" on women for pregnancy. It's not like they got that way by themselves...
ReplyDeleteI think this is both extremely offensive and unfortunately very realistic. I've definitely heard men talk about how it is the woman's job to use birth control and I think it's extremely ironic how men find themselves too delicate to handle the possibly adverse side effects of birth control yet they are strong enough to repress women on a daily basis.
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