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The pill is for women, and in fact, other than condoms, the vast majority of birth control options fall to women. And in fact the pill is not always a simple and easy choice. As Tynam pointed out, hormonal birth control can cause serious side-effects in a not insignification portion of the population of women. While IUDs can be an alternative, those also can have side-effects. It’s not as simple in the real world as you make it seem.

And yes, a man telling women how we should be in the world is sexist, in that it assumes that you know more than we do, and that our own views and concerns not as important as yours, even when it comes to our own bodies. And even women can fall into that trap of telling other women how they should be in the world. You just don’t get to make those decisions and judgements for us.

While some people have been rude to you, many of us have engaged you in an actually debate and tried to avoid name-calling, showing why we think you are wrong, point by point. There has been plenty of principled debate in this thread. Just because we don’t all agree with you at the end of the day doens’t mean we were assholes.

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