“The real issue here is that our patriarchal society can’t deal with the fact that men have lost control of a number of their women, after years of being able to have their cake and eat it too.”
From Ruby, a feminist reader:
“Men, if you don’t want a baby, stop feigning ‘shock and awe’ [when a woman gets pregnant] and keep it in your pants. What is sex for? I personally think it’s amusing that women are being just as ‘devious’ as men to meet their biological urges. What’s the difference between a man telling you he loves you so that he can satisfy HIS biological urge for sex, and a woman telling you she’s on birth control to meet HER biological urge for sex?
“Children are the NATURAL product of sex but our society has so many social constructs in place, and tells all young men to go forth and copulate without consequences, that we’ve forgotten that. The real issue here is that our patriarchal society can’t deal with the fact that men have lost control of a number of their women, after years of being able to have their cake and eat it too.
“What’s more, a large number of single by choice women earn more money than the majority of men, so ‘going after their pay check’ is not a motivation for becoming pregnant, and men are kidding themselves if they think it is.
“The bottom line here is I think it’s inherently sad that society ENCOURAGES men to sleep around without taking responsibility for contraception, ENCOURAGES men not to marry women their own age, ENCOURAGES women to take control of their destiny, and then burns a woman at the stake when the most precious blessing imaginable, a child, is bought into this world.
“From what the majority of men on this board have to say, the main issue of an unexpected pregnancy that they resent is having to pay for a child. If you didn’t have to pay, would you even care?”
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