This has been a terrible week for the United States. The only good thing so far seems to be that Gonzales may be wrung out to dry. The rest of it? Not so good
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I think part of the severe realization about this on my part stems partly from a recent spat of late periods (due to being on the pill since age 16 I usually can predict the arrival of my menses to the hour). As each day passed I'd get freaked out. I knew that I'd probably be okay and still get it, but the idea that I could, could be faced with my constitutionally-mandated choice FREAKED ME OUT. Can you imagine having to get an abortion? The choice in pro-choice is one of the scariest things imaginable. But not having the right to make it is even scarier.
I'm not sure what it will take to make men understand what pregnancy and childbirth is like. There's really no way to do it, just like there's no way to convince men that menstrual cramps or ovary pokes (eeeeeeoowww!) are possibly just as if not more painful than being kicked in the balls. They will constantly insist that it is worse, because they know. There is no way to know, because with the possible exception of some physiologically intergendered people nobody can make the comparison.
Maybe all the male Supreme Court justices shold be forced to carry leeches on their bodies for nine months. IN THEIR ASSES. That would exclude the swollen feet, haggling for maternity leave, incontinence, moodswings, appetite shifts, morning sickness need for bedrest, and legions of other physical stresses of pregnancy and childbirth, but at least they'd have some semblance of what it's like to go through an intensely parasitic biological relationship.
The tradeoff would come, of course, by pooping out leaches instead of having a child. Probably not punishment enough.
I'm not sure what it will take to make men understand what pregnancy and childbirth is like. There's really no way to do it, just like there's no way to convince men that menstrual cramps or ovary pokes (eeeeeeoowww!) are possibly just as if not more painful than being kicked in the balls. They will constantly insist that it is worse, because they know. There is no way to know, because with the possible exception of some physiologically intergendered people nobody can make the comparison.
Maybe all the male Supreme Court justices shold be forced to carry leeches on their bodies for nine months. IN THEIR ASSES. That would exclude the swollen feet, haggling for maternity leave, incontinence, moodswings, appetite shifts, morning sickness need for bedrest, and legions of other physical stresses of pregnancy and childbirth, but at least they'd have some semblance of what it's like to go through an intensely parasitic biological relationship.
The tradeoff would come, of course, by pooping out leaches instead of having a child. Probably not punishment enough.
This was gross. Sorry. I'm just really mad.
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