LOL
Needs a label so I can find it later.
POWER MISANDRY
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No.
Iām surprised this wasnāt already in this thread.
/goes back to lurking this thread
Eta: it does become a bit of a #notallmen, but I think of this one as more of a how to act than not all men are trash.
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I agree with Adam
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So if I read this right, Trump (and the right wing nuts) would like to make it so it is up to your employer whether you can get birth control, and then up to the pharmacist whether you can fill a prescription. I suspect there is no way to limit this to ājustā birth control. What happens when your Jehovah Witness boss wonāt approve blood transfusion for your surgery? Or your antivaxx employer wants to limit your access to vaccines for your child? Itās all on āmoral and religiousā grounds, after all. Another excellent argument for severing the link between insurance and employment.
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And of taking a really close and skeptical look at various religious and moral medical exemptions.
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Not exactly the same situatuon, but closely related:
Mercy San Juan deemed a hysterectomy for a transgender patient a form of sterilization, and that wasnāt a procedure the hospital could perform because itās a Catholic institution. The hospital does permit hysterectomies for others, however. Dr. Lindsey Dawson, Mintonās physician, says that she has performed the procedure at Mercy San Juan before, and that the hospitalās decision to cancel the surgery is discriminatory.
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/catholic-hospitals-transgender-patients-discrimination
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And then thereās thisā¦
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To be honest, I donāt think it will get that far, mainly because groups like Christians Scientists or Jehovahās witnesses just donāt have that much cultural capital to throw aroundā¦ the anti-vaxxer movement encompasses a larger group of people, so thatās more likely.
But the real goal of the assault on birth control and abortion is to control women (and as that other link shows, trans people as well). Itās less likely that things that impede on the medical and bodily autonomy of men is going to come up for debate. It might well, but Iād argue itās far less likely.
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Oh, I agree. My only point is that this need to control other people tends to persist after whatever the current goal is achieved. Once women are under control (
) they move onto whatever the next āsubstandardā group in need of controlling. And once the law is settled, it stops being about cultural capital, but about real capital. If you have the money to hire the lawyers to push an issue, it can rapidly become āhow can you let the conservative Xtians discriminate against women and not allow me to discriminate against (insert oppressed group of choice here). It is all about religious and moral free-dumb after all!ā
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This:
ties nicely in with this:
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The first woman in the 190 year history of the newspaper.
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Yeah, there were a lot of really stupid and really obviously misogynistic reactions to Rey. Plus all the whining about having a black ex-stormtrooper as one of the good guys. Plus the people who were so freaking mad about General Hux and the First Order overall having a really strong alt-right, neo-Nazi vibe.
Iām a Star Wars fan myself, but I could do without a good chunk of the fandom.
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The usual ātaken out of contextā excuses, but, seriously?
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Now Iām worried that Iāve gotten so used to period pain, Iāll dismiss it if I ever have a heart attackā¦ 
Although Iāve only had period pain so bad I was on the floor a couple of timesā¦ if I donāt take ibuprofen, it can get pretty intense, though. And my sister did have endometriosis and was put on birth control at a young age for itā¦
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Actually, I wonder if that is not a factor in the delay of recognition of MIs in women. (Pediatricians donāt deal with MIs as a rule, so that really is a question. I have no idea.)
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If you donāt want to click on the link, they were using the evidence taken due to the rape as an excuse to make the 14-year-olds compare chromosome reports.
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Now that I am used to the kidney stone pain I wonder what thing I will dismiss that I really should pay attention to cause it isnāt as bad.
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Ouch, sorry to hear that. Donāt they ultrasound those things away?
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