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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

I understand and feel your pain, and I'm sorry it's come to this for you and your girlfriend. I can't help but feel so incredibly annoyed though reading your last few comments. Pregnancy prevention has always been the 'responsibility' of women, despite how these fake hormones wreak havoc with our bodies, and yet, ALL pregnancies are absolutely undeniably the RESPONSIBILITY of MEN!! (The Virgin Mary aside if that's your belief) -no woman on earth can get pregnant without semen. Semen is the problem, the cause of unwanted pregnancies and the issue that should be being targeted. Yet when trials were done with male hormonal contraceptives, it was deemed too dangerous due to the havoc wreaked on the body! Yet this is the expectation placed on women, because historically we have always been 'worth less'. With comments like ''please consider how powerful hormones are'' and ''please be in touch with your hormones'' and ''be the full women you were meant to be'', - I want to scream!!! The patriarchy has never let us!!! And before anyone reading this goes ''uh-oh, crazy feminist posting'', please read this article. It's about preventing abortions, but it explains why those comments are painful, so much better than I can. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/abortion-pregnancy-pro-life_uk_5ba20e08e4b046313fc0bda5?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_cs=boRDCYFpsPkpB7WoqHDDaw
Hopefully these comments that anger and upset a part of me, (even though they are meant nicely, I know) will make you feel kind of angry too, after you reflect on this. Angry for us women, and everything we have to go through, and so not just angry that the side effects of the mirena have spoilt your relationship, but angry that ultimately it always comes down to the women, never the men and their 'irresponsible ejaculations' as explained in the article. I hope you get what I mean.
Now for those of us who are forced to put up with the same horrible side effects as part of treatment for conditions such as endometriosis as well, well, we're doubly screwed :'(

October 1, 2018 - 12:08pm

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