Maria > Recent Status Updates

Ch 5

Can’t stand the interactions between Perrin and Faile.

Jordan is very good at world building, but poor at relationship building. So many couples getting together, but it’s really unclear why they’re into each other.

“When it comes to birth control, and really, life in general, we favor preserving men’s convenience, peace of mind, and pleasure over preventing or relieving women’s suffering.”

The drug in Viagra, originally studied for potential heart benefits, was also shown to have “significant and lasting relief for women suffering from serious period pain.” But they didn’t continue research in that direction because, “They believed that cramps were *not a public health priority*” despite half the population menstruating.

“Ive heard a vasectomy is out as invasive and painful as getting an IUD implanted. […] But here’s the thing, vasectomies are *always* performed with at least a local anesthetic, while pain meds are *rarely if ever* used for IUD insertions.”

Despite very promising results, the trial on male hormonal birth control was stopped because of the side effects. “But side effects for women’s birth control options are just as serious, if not more so — yet millions of ware still prescribed these drugs and ingest them daily.”

The husband stitch?!?!?!

“ We don’t mind if women suffer, as long as it makes things easier for men.”

“Did my Southern Grandpa attend lynchings?”

Almost identical to what I wrote myself.

Women have “been taught the pleasure and convenience of men are paramount. We’ve been taught to diminish our own pain. […] [W]e’ve put the burden of pregnancy prevention on women. We’ve put the burden on the person who is fertile for 24 hours a month, instead of the person who is fertile 24 hours a day, every day of their life.”

[W]e’ve been told […] that it doesn’t feel as good as sex without a condom. (Meaning it doesn’t feel as good *for men.* What it feels like for their partner doesn’t really enter into the discussion.)

“Successful condom users report that once they solved the size, materials, and lubrication questions, they could barely tell a difference between sex with a condom and sex without.”

“Birth control options for men are very effective plus vastly easier, safer, more convenient, more accessible, and more affordable than birth control options for women. Given this, the expectation ought to be that a man uses a condom every time he has sex. And if a man is deeply condom-averse, it should be an absolute given that he would get a vasectomy.”

Condoms “don’t cause depression, mood swings, blood clots, liver failure, weight gain, acne, strokes, or anything else on the list of side effects for hormonal birth control.”

“Ovulation is involuntary. Ejaculation is voluntary.”

“We have an entire pregnancy prevention industry built around the brief, elusive period of monthly fertility, and nothing, absolutely nothing even close to equivalent, that addresses the always persistent male fertility. We are laser-focused on the wrong thing.”

“We don’t track men’s fertility at all. There are no apps for that. No over-the-counter tests at the pharmacy. Because there’s no need; we already know when men are fertile. Men are fertile all day, every day.”

Since men are 50x more fertile than women, it’s clear that they “don’t play a minor or supporting role in pregnancy. Men’s lifelong continual fertility is the central driving force behind all unwanted pregnancies.”

The bright orange color in the gutter is gorgeous.

This is the first time I’ve ever read a book while something the screen adaptation.

I could never get over the detail that The Admirals is -not- a real team in NY, but -is- a real team in Milwaukee.

“”As Booker T. Washington famously said, “It is not possible for one man to hold another man down in the ditch without staying down there with him.””

“All successful life is adaptable, opportunistic, tenacious, interconnected, and fecund.”

“Mom was a Democrat until 2008.”