Discuss.

[the_alcatraz]

“If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.”

Barbara Ehrenreich

 

[dabuffguy]

“If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.”

Barbara Ehrenreich

yikes!

 

[GoldenDelicious]

i absolutely agree!! so long as whoever wrote it also agrees that a condition whereby the sufferer would pass out for several hours at a time each day, and the consequences of avoiding said unconcious state would lead to madness, immune disfunction, nausea, feelings of malaise and general unwellness, lack of concentration, memory disturbance and hallucination, and ultimately even death, is also a sexually transmitted lifelong condition

...a condition called...life

...where the period of unconciousness is otherwise known as...sleep

 

[the_alcatraz]

She has a point though.

Child birth is not a joke. Women go through a great deal of pain for nine months and during childbirth, the pain is just amplified exponentially.

That's not even mentioning frickin period pain.

Women have it a lot harder than men in my opinion.

 

[Johnny Cakes]

except when I get caught in my zipper, that hurts too.

 

[EnderJE]

She has a point though.

Child birth is not a joke. Women go through a great deal of pain for nine months and during childbirth, the pain is just amplified exponentially.

That's not even mentioning frickin period pain.

Women have it a lot harder than men in my opinion.

In everything or just childbirth?

 

[b0und]

“If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.”

Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941, in Butte, Montana) is an American feminist, socialist and political activist. She is a widely read columnist and essayist, and the author of nearly 20 books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Ehrenreich

I find her statement calling pregnancy a sexually transmitted disease very offensive. I am pro-choice, but that doesn't mean I am pro-abortion, equating pregnancy to an STD is repugnant.





b0und ( )

 

[dabuffguy]

She has a point though.

Child birth is not a joke. Women go through a great deal of pain for nine months and during childbirth, the pain is just amplified exponentially.

That's not even mentioning frickin period pain.

Women have it a lot harder than men in my opinion.

Women don't face the same stress men do to provide for a family.

 

[chris302001]

except when I get caught in my zipper, that hurts too.

Or if it's cold out and a chick (or dude I guess) grabs your balls when theyre all tight up against u and stretches your sack skin.........FUCKING BURNS LIKE A MOTHER!!!!!! and doesnt fuckin go away for like, 20 min.........

 

[Johnny Cakes]

Or if it's cold out and a chick (or dude I guess) grabs your balls when theyre all tight up against u and stretches your sack skin.........FUCKING BURNS LIKE A MOTHER!!!!!! and doesnt fuckin go away for like, 20 min.........

I like that feeling.