October 7, 2008
Buried within this article in Slate is a twisted perspective that is truly a spectacle to behold.
It is written by your typical sneering American female journalist. And she is very sharp-eyed and observant when it comes to spotting sexism... well, actually she can instantly spot the sexism that doesn't favor her at least.
She hopes that men will soon have their own birth control pill. Of course, I'm very pleased at the prospect of a male birth control pill because such a thing would be incredibly useful. But no, that's not exactly why she wants men to have it.
It's not that she likes men and wants them to have a way of controlling their own reproductive systems, mind you. No sir. She want's men to have a birth control pill because (in part) she hopes that men might experience side effects.
Hopefully, really nasty ones!
Yes, she gets a bit of a vicarious thrill from imagining that men (after decades and decades of supposedly lazy and irresponsible shirking) might finally suffer from things like unwanted weight gain or weird cholesterol levels. How wonderful that would be! And seeing as how she is less-than satisfied with how her pills work, she is downright leery of the fact that the FDA might actually have some concern about a male birth control pill's side-effects. (One suspects that she'd be quite satisfied if the FDA didn't devote much concern to the matter.)
In addition to achieving equality of bad medicine, men might also have to suck it up and finally share the reproductive burden that martyred and selfless women have been so heroically carrying alone for so long.
Oh, those lucky lucky men! They have everything so easy!
Why, they don't have any side effects because they don't have any pills! None! Not one! They don't have to make many choices because they don't have many options! What easy and simple lives they have! They are so lucky!
But alas, poor women-- they have to swallow things according to a schedule! And the pill isn't 100% effective! And they have to get the prescriptions refilled occasionally! Oh no! Oh no no no! No! How do they ever survive such horror?! Wahh! Wahh!
Yes, one day men will get their well-deserved comeuppance and they will finally have to take responsibility just like poor women have been doing for so many years. (And Lord knows, American chicks are famous for always taking responsibility for everything they do...)
"Perhaps men will learn to compromise and share the inconveniences and health risks..." Yes if women suffer, then men ought to suffer too-- and hopefully, they'll suffer more. It's what Ekwalitee is all about, you know!
At long last, those porcine males will be dragged, kicking and screaming, up to a woman's saintly level of discipline and rectitude.
Yes, she demands that both sexes share all the burdens Ekwally! Well okay, then...
How about having more female coal miners then? Or more female trash collectors? Those are burdens which ought to be shared. Uh... um... uh... well she didn't mean that kind of burden. No not the burdens that men carry, only the burdens that irritate women ought to be shared. Alas, she is a typical American chick...
But even curiouser... for several decades I've been hearing women gloat endlessly about how birth control was empowering. How great it was that women have control over their reproductive systems. But now that men might be getting a similar pill, all of a sudden this woman sees her beloved Pill morph into yet another shackle of the male oppressor. It has suddenly become a burden that those evil swine-dog men have foisted onto poor hapless women.
What a disorienting and weird volte-face this is. It's like claiming that vanilla ice cream has always been brown.
I swear to Christ, an American chick will use ANY EXCUSE to play 'victim'. ANY fool excuse at all. GHAH!
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