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Heard it said that "Patriarchy" played a horrible role in how the pill was developed and tested. In first trials in South America women stopped taking it, there
by teknopaul 5y ago
Heard it said that "Patriarchy" played a horrible role in how the pill was developed and tested. In first trials in South America women stopped taking it, there were uninvestigated health issues and side effects and one death from bleeding without autopsy, but since no one got pregnant, it was declared a success.
Not to say that modern options are not better.
I think it's historically accurate to say early male pill investigations have been infinitely more concerned with male health. OK to be ashamed of that.
If you live in a patriarchy many things are affected by it, even opiniones that appear contradictory.
- collegeburner 5y agoAgree 100%. I have so many female friends who felt a ton better after getting off. There's even some evidence to suggest that it changes women's mating preferences. But the pill is one of the sacred cows of that wave of feminism, so people don't like questioning it even though it fucks over women. But given the massive demand by women I wouldn't call it "patriarchy". The massively potent synthetic hormones used by the pill are showing up in water supplies now. To me that externality is enough reason to ban it, people don't get to expose guys to estrogenic shit so they can avoid pregnancy.