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GJGE all you Greens and nonvoters... (Original Post) Blue_Tires Mar 2017 OP
Well, the House will pass that in an instant. MineralMan Mar 2017 #1
I doubt they'd make contraceptives illegal Zing Zing Zingbah Mar 2017 #3
When that happens, some women will find out how violent Ilsa Mar 2017 #4
I doubt the majority of men are violent like that. Zing Zing Zingbah Mar 2017 #5
I said "some". Ilsa Mar 2017 #6
Many men, especially those of a particularly religious bent Bettie Mar 2017 #9
This is why we need more female senators and representatives Zing Zing Zingbah Mar 2017 #2
We're coming. 10,000 Democratic women have signed up to run for office. JTFrog Mar 2017 #7
Yes--women are driving the resistance ismnotwasm Mar 2017 #8

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
1. Well, the House will pass that in an instant.
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 04:56 PM
Mar 2017

Better stock up on contraceptives now. They might be illegal again soon, like they were back in the 1960s, when I was a teenager. The words, "For Prevention of Disease Only' was on every packet of condoms in California then.

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
3. I doubt they'd make contraceptives illegal
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 05:13 PM
Mar 2017

Male contraceptive methods will be protected because for these people it is about men controlling when the babies are made. Of course ultimately the women have the keys to the vagina and they can refuse to have sex with men to prevent pregnancy. In fact, that would be the best protest ever. The men wouldn't last long and they'd all be screaming to get the female contraceptive methods back so they can get with their women again.

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
4. When that happens, some women will find out how violent
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 05:17 PM
Mar 2017

Their partners can be when they are told, "No."

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
6. I said "some".
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 05:31 PM
Mar 2017

I was dating a "nice guy" ages ago. Photographer. Really mellow. We had been intimately involved already for several months. One evening after a date I needed to get home for an early morning at work. I was kissing him goodbye when he push me down on the floor. I kept resisting, trying to leave, but he weighed twice as much as me. Yes, he raped me. He didn't beat me up, but it was rape, and it was violent.

Some of these women will discover some ugliness about their partners when they tell them "No."

Bettie

(16,095 posts)
9. Many men, especially those of a particularly religious bent
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 05:49 PM
Mar 2017

tend to believe that women's bodies and sex with them are their right, not something they ask for.

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
2. This is why we need more female senators and representatives
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 05:01 PM
Mar 2017

If we have 50% female representation none of this nonsense would be happening right now.

 

JTFrog

(14,274 posts)
7. We're coming. 10,000 Democratic women have signed up to run for office.
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 05:35 PM
Mar 2017

We are more than pissed off about this piece of shit stealing the election.

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