1546: God's Bananas

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by Strawdog

All that evidence indicates that the ONLY way to stop pregnancies is to use contraception. But wait, there's another way; close your goddamn legs.

I gave you the benefit of the doubt earlier, but with this comment you've really exposed yourself as quite the backwards fuckhead. Actually, first I should ask, how old are you? Because you sound like a dumbfuck 18 year old douchebag.

Okay, married women. You heard Strawdog. You are no longer allowed to have sex with your husbands unless you're willing to face the consequences of your actions and have a dozen kids.

Women pay premiums to their insurance companies just like men do. Insurance companies should damn well cover a basic medical service that over 90% of women use. Viagra is covered by most standard health insurance policies. Why is that, if sex is not something that we are entitled to? If men can't get it up, they should just keep their damned pants on.

[JessiC]

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

Okay, married women. You heard Strawdog. You are no longer allowed to have sex with your husbands unless you're willing to face the consequences of your actions and have a dozen kids.

Well, shit! Thanks a lot Strawdog. Damn.

[bofadeeznizzles]

Originally Posted by Strawdog

... or you should go without sex...

Who would want to live in this world?

[BrianAlt]

Originally Posted by bofadeeznizzles

Who would want to live in this world?

Strawdog.

[DWarrior]

Successful troll is successful

[Strawdog]

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

Okay, married women. You heard Strawdog. You are no longer allowed to have sex with your husbands unless you're willing to face the consequences of your actions and have a dozen kids.

Ok, hold up. Don't get your ovaries in a twist and get all dramatic on me. If contraception is such a financial issue then you've got bigger problems than contraception in your life and getting married wasn't the best way to sort that out. Contraception is cheap, if you're not using it it's usually by choice, not financial ruin.

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

Viagra is covered by most standard health insurance policies.

Exactly, covered by most insurance policies. Not all. Just like every other kind of insurance you need to shop around to find the deal that suits you. Some insurance policies cover female contraception, some don't. What they're arguing for, as I mentioned before, is for all policies to cover contraception. This is ridiculous, it's purely a cop-out for women who got their insurance with their work placement and can't be bothered to break out their big-girl cheque book and look for a big-girl policy.
Let me ask you this, if your car insurance didn't cover any sort of road traffic accident would you complain and campaign for it to change or would you change your insurer to one who covers your needs?
Why should everyone else bend over backwards to meet your needs when your needs can be met with a little work on your part.

Another major part of this issue that is rarely brought up is the idea that yo'd be able to make a claim against your insurance should your contraception fail, or be thought to have failed. We already live in a society where whiplash has driven up vehicle insurance to ridiculous levels through false, hard to disprove, claims. Even people who would normally not exploit the system find it hard to baulk at the chance for a free couple thousand $/£ after taking a small bump to the rear.
Now we're opening up the possibility for people to sue over failed contraception that they may not have even used (could you find a condom with holes in from 3 weeks ago, or a even a pill packet?). Car insurance works because you practice and take a test, health insurance works because no-one willingly harms themselves. Contraception has no test for proficiency in use, proof is immediately binned or flushed and is used, a lot of the time, in intoxicated states. Can you argue this to be something people wouldn't exploit?

[Incognito]

Keith is a good example of someone I would be unable to watch movies with. If it doesn't grab him within five minutes of the start, he writes it off completely. Granted, I haven't seen The Artist yet, but this seems to be a common attitude for his movie watching experience in general.

And that's too bad, because there is a lot of quality films which do have a kind of slowly building momentum from the start that he might otherwise ignore.

Modern example: Ronin. Absolutely no talking within the first few minutes, just people glancing at each other, walking around (a reason for this, which is revealed soon thereafter), but it's a damn good movie.

I've been called a movie snob before and I suppose that's apt, to a point, but I just enjoy watching good films. I don't analyze it down to its minute structure, but if I am going to devote my time and money to it, I should enjoy it given that I give it a chance.

[Keith]

Ronin blew balls.

[Leentron3030]

Originally Posted by Strawdog

Why should everyone else bend over backwards to meet your needs when your needs can be met with a little work on your part.

Because people support the health of people.

Birth control is used for many reasons, not just as contraception. It's saved lives, it makes it so women can function and don't have to take a week off work every month, it reduces our cancer risk, hell it even clears skin up better than acne products. That's just to name a few. I'm not sure why any male wouldn't want to stand up for the women in their lives, and everywhere, and support this. If I knew men could take a pill that would better their lives and reduce health risks, I would support helping them get easier access to it. Oh wait, we do, it's called viagra. Yet when it comes to women, it becomes a heated debate, and then assholes say really stupid shit like "close your legs". I don't get it.

[Leentron3030]

Today is International Women's Day. In honor of it, all of the 12 female democratic senators wrote to speaker boner. Here's a good excerpt:

"Today, at a time when 99% of sexually active women in the U.S. have used birth control, its role in the lives of women and their families is hard to understate. Access to birth control is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality, can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, and is linked to overall good health outcomes. Nationwide, 1.5 million women use contraceptives only as treatment for serious medical conditions. And most importantly, access to birth control helps reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions, a goal we all share."