Yes how dare we hold modern studies to more rigorous standards than the ethics that brought us the Tuskegee and Stanford Prison experiments
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I'll put it on the backburner. Have to finish a blog on why drinking young people's blood is stupid, of all things
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Replying to @GidMK @jamesheathers
Yeah, it's absolutely far more complicated than that. But the idea that we just accept the pretty major side-effects of the Pill without much thought is also worth examining.
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Replying to @erinrileyau @jamesheathers
Do we? The main reason the pill is still prescription only is because of concern over side-effects. I feel like the side effects are mostly considered less problematic by doctors than pregnancy, but that's more of a public health perspective I guess?
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Replying to @GidMK @jamesheathers
I guess I am approaching it more socially- the expectation that women will "just go on the pill" when they're in heterosexual LTRs, despite the fact it can be deeply unpleasant, is v frustrating. Take-up of newer, better hormonal birth control options is still low
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Replying to @erinrileyau @jamesheathers
I can see the frustration there. I think there's certainly an imbalance between male and female contraception, and it's often expressed unfairly in relationships. I think the best expression is actually in the rates of vasectomy vs tubal ligation as
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Do you not understand that the castration suggestion is a rhetorical technique, not an actual literal suggestion.
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If you want to close your eyes and yell as loudly as you can about obvious rhetorical devices, that's your right as a semi-literate boiled parsnip I'm going to get on with my day. Cheers
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