This article makes a primary complaint of “why isn’t women’s birth control as symptom-free?”. The difference in difficulty between women’s and men’s reproducti

This article makes a primary complaint of “why isn’t women’s birth control as symptom-free?”. The difference in difficulty between women’s and men’s reproductive control is like the difference between (respectively) censoring a newspaper factory and censoring a news stand. The factory has so many different moving parts and a high complexity, which provides many opportunities for intervention. It’s big, so it’s easy to find and work with, but censoring a specific article without destroying the factory’s ability to produce newspapers requires a very targeted approach that does not work with every factory, can cause undesirable knock-down effects elsewhere in the factory, and may even cause damage to one where in another it works perfectly. With that said, the factory’s complexity does make it easier to build solutions for, as there are many, many options available to censor a factory, and with the vast majority of factories you could even stack multiple solutions for extreme effectiveness. The NYC-style sidewalk news stand, on the other hand, is very simple. It has few parts, with relatively low complexity, which provides only a handful of options for intervention. While this does make solutions much simpler, anything more than the sharpie approach for censoring individual newspapers - which is laborious and error-prone and has very low efficiency - tends to involve a nuclear approach that destroys any functional ability in the first place. As such, creating a reversible censorship solution that can be mass-applied for high effectiveness without permanently destroying publication ability has been fiendishly difficult to find.