SansPretense

**WARNING: Strong language.** 

I’m starting a new category. Ever read some news story that the wonderful mainstream media reports on and after the first paragraph your reaction is something along the lines of “What the FUCK?!” Sorry if bad language offends you, but sometimes other words just don’t cut it. And frankly, it’d be kind of stupid and hypocritical to censor myself on a blog all about being myself and speaking my mind. Anyway, you read the first paragraph or two, and either the journalist writing the article or some dumbass says something that can easily be confused for satire in its stupidity. So you just have to yell aloud or to yourself “What the FUCK?!” You keep reading to see if maybe you’re missing something, and the more you read the more you ‘cus. OK, maybe you goody-two shoes out there don’t ‘cus, but you have something you do that’s equivalent. You know what I mean. What do you do? Let me know in the comments for the 3 people that might read this.

Anyway, I’m starting this new category. For another example besides the one below on what would go in this category, check out SarahK’s blog post about a NY Times piece titled Pain of foreclosures spreads to the affluent (hat tip IMAO…yea, even the title makes you go…well, fine, you get the point.

My first entry into this category is sure to be controversial. The news story is *Drum roll please*: (click continue)

College Students Speak Out Against the Rising Cost of Birth Control
(hat tip Moonbattery)

Let’s look at what the article says (emphasis mine):

Erin McKenna, a junior at the University of Pittsburgh, admits that she sometimes has to choose between purchasing textbooks for school and paying for her birth-control prescription.

“I have two jobs and I still can’t afford it,” McKenna said.

It is the type of decision that more and more college women are facing since a provision in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 ended the practice of drug companies providing birth-control medicines to colleges at a steep discount.

Birth-control advocates call the price increase a crisis, while promoters of sexual abstinence say colleges should be stressing alternatives to contraceptives.

What the FUCK?!?! If choosing between books for college and a damn birth control pill is so tough a choice that it warrants lobbying Congress, then something is wrong. Furthermore, it’s considered a CRISIS then what do you call the current food rationing of rice and other products in the US and other countries? The Apocalypse?

It’s not that I don’t sympathize for these women; I really do understand what it’s like to have to give up an activity that you love doing (or, more than likely considering the difficulty some of these women are facing, an activity which is providing a distraction (seriously, read that link) to the low self-esteem, poor self-image, unhappy lives). Hell, with gas prices rising the way they are I’m often faced with the most difficult decision of spending my money on another tank of gas that is needed to get to work and back or spending it on good booze and expensive hookers strippers easy women “social activities with the opposite sex”, but I don’t see Congress passing a law to give me any special discounts (with their connections, you’d think they could)! Do you hear college boys lobbying Congress to lower the price of alcohol or GHB on campus?  If they tried they’d probably get laughed at and not taken seriously. But oh, gosh, women need to be empowered to take control of their lives, and hence, they need cheaper birth control:

“Young women face many hurdles in life. To add another financial hurdle makes no sense. We should be making it easier, not harder, for young women to take control of their lives,” Tamblyn said in a statement released by Planned Parenthood.

And yes, that’s the Amber Tamblyn of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (which was a great movie, btw).

So we allow women to take control of their lives by making it easier for them to not have to practice self-control? Can’t you just see the college boys standing in line for this cause? Can feminists really not see the irony of all this?

I have a close friend whom I love, admire, and respect dearly.  She’s also very intelligent…except for one episode.  One day, she told me that she found out that a guy she was seeing and really cared for was also seeing about a dozen other women, all telling them the same sweet nothings he was telling her.  She thought she was special only to find out that he was playing her with the intention of getting into her pants (which he hadn’t yet).  She wasn’t too happy.  A few days later, she tells me that she got her revenge and she was proud of herself.  “What did you do?” I asked.  “I slept with him, and afterwards I told him that I knew of the other women and that it was over.”  Me: “What the FUCK?  You did WHAT?”  Her: “I slept with him.  I showed him that he couldn’t play me and that I was the one who was in control.”  Me:  “So he just wanted to get into your pants, so in order to take revenge on him for that you slept with him?”  Her: “Yea.”  Me: “Where’s the logic in that?”  Her: “I told you…” Me: “Yea, so how do I make you that mad at me?” 

Analyzing the situation, it’s easy to see where she found the illusion of empowerment at, however, as the weeks went on, it became more and more clear that instead of empowering herself, she ended up actually enslaving herself.  By sleeping with him in an act of (sweet) revenge, she revealed her weakness to that asshole, who exploited it every chance he got.  She also became more attached to him for several reason, making it harder to end things when she should’ve. 

The empowerment that comes from “radical” (whatever that means) sexual “liberation” of men and women is only an illusion, and the idea that women should be given a “handout” on birth control in order to “take control of their lives” is the biggest lie of all.  It’s comparable to what my friend went through. If I didn’t know better, I’d say that some genius came up with the entire deal just to get laid more without worrying about being “punished” from it.  

Furthermore, why is it that only college women should get these discounts? Oh, wait, I forgot, when we go to socialized medicine the “discounts” will apply to everyone.

More from the article:

McKenna says she has taken a second job to afford the pill, which went up from $12 to $52 a month on her campus after the legislation went into effect.

“My father passed away in February,” McKenna said, “and that’s not a burden I’m comfortable with putting on my mother right now.”

So you’d rather pass that burden on to ME? What the hell is in it for me? Oh wait…good point…too bad I’m not the asshole-type that’d take advantage of it.

University of North Dakota student Katie Ryan says she had to cut back on groceries as well as social activities in order to afford the higher-priced pills.

What the hell FUCK?! Groceries?  REALLY?!  Yea, that’s really fucking empowering, right?  ‘Cause being addicted to sex is true empowerment, whereas eating is so fucking overrated.  Are you worried about your boyfriend leaving you?  Make him pay for the damn pill…and if you don’t have a boyfriend, collect donations in advance.  Use the pull-out method.  Be safer than the pill and use a condom.  Or even better, DON’T HAVE SEX. 

Ladies and gentleman, if you want to truly empower women, make them feel that having sex is perfectly normal and natural, and <em>required</em>.  You’re a loser, an ice-queen, or a right-wing nutjob if you don’t agree.  Not only that, they’re expected to “take precautions” cause it’s not the man’s job to worry about or responsibility what happens to your body.  That’s Left-wing empowerment for, ya.  BULLSHIT. 

Ladies, you want real empowerment?  Don’t fall for that bullshit.  Think for yourself.

And finally, the most intelligent point of the whole article, and it’s the last sentence:

“It’s incredibly unfair to take away the ability for colleges to receive donated medicines or reduced price contraception,” Stabenow said. “There is no good reason to want to add costs to college students who are struggling enough to make ends meet.”

The stripping the discount for birth control and donations of other prescriptions from colleges was an accidental repercussion of a law designed to cut down abuse in Medicaid. This accident should be fixed because not only is there nothing wrong with a company donating drugs or giving a discount to colleges. College students need medicine, and often can’t afford the regular price. THAT’s a good reason to fix the legistlation. The increase in birth control price is NOT.  Stop bitching about it, and if you have that much trouble keeping your legs closed, then you probably need to see a therapist. No offense.  And if the guy you’re sleeping with fucking doesn’t understand, then contrary to what your friends tell you, he’s NOT a “wonderful guy.”

However, if it’s that important to you, at least be considerate and lobby Congress to include in the law discounts on liquor for graduate students…thank you.

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