Butter!
Rough Around the Edges
Some uncomfortable personal musings, since I'm stuck inside again and can't stop worrying about political unrest -
I think a lot of people assume that abortions only happen when protection wasn't used. In the real world, protection of all types fails all the time. That's why I haven't had actual penetrative sex since 2018 (TMI, bitches!!!). No idea how long my bf is going to keep being cool with this arrangement, but so far so good.
My present health insurance rocks. I have access to alllllllll the birth control now, and it wouldn't cost me a penny. But I don't trust it. Everything fails, and the stakes are way too high. I am obviously supportive of abortion rights, but it is not a decision I would want to have to face in my own life. Furthermore, even if I had no personal hesitations, I would feel unsafe going anywhere near a women's clinic in the current environment, frankly. I wouldn't even want to go in for a pap smear. The lunatic protestors outside those places don't seem to understand that people use them for other reasons.
Yes, I suppose I could be sterilized, but **** that. Why should I have to go that route? Why should I have to make the decision right now that I will definitely NEVER want children, and then go through a highly invasive and expensive operation, just so I can get some dick? Not worth it.
I love my boyfriend a whole hell of a lot, but that's still very much not worth it to me. I assume he'll eventually tire of my stance, and most likely before my fertility evaporates altogether. He'll find a less neurotic chick, and she'll probably be younger and hotter than me. But I still won't regret my choices. When I was sexually active, every time I even caught a whiff of this debate, I had palpitations. Now, I just feel sad for everybody, but I don't have to deal with that ever-present fear and odd sense of shame anymore.
So then, righties who froth at the mouth over this issue, I guess you've won. You wanted women to be too afraid to have sex and to associate it with shame. Worked pretty well on me, although it wouldn't have when I was younger and less sensitive. I don't really miss PIV all that much, though, and I sleep peacefully at night knowing that the Junior Anti-Sex League has no reason to **** with me.
If I wasn't already in a relationship, I doubt I would pursue one at this point. When my current one ends, I'm hanging up my jersey. I can't trust anyone anymore. I can't trust new men not to have gross assumptions about women buried within them. I can't trust new people to be sane or empathetic in any way. Moreover, I'm almost 100% positive that it isn't possible to establish a new monogamous relationship without putting "all the way out" at some point. (Well, maybe I'll meet a man with no dick or something. A girl can dream!)
Do the people who support this law really think that no one should have sex unless they're married and ready for a baby? Or do they truly not believe that birth control can fail if properly used? I want to know what they see as the ideal situation. No sex outside of marriage? No birth control failures? What?
I think a lot of people assume that abortions only happen when protection wasn't used. In the real world, protection of all types fails all the time. That's why I haven't had actual penetrative sex since 2018 (TMI, bitches!!!). No idea how long my bf is going to keep being cool with this arrangement, but so far so good.
My present health insurance rocks. I have access to alllllllll the birth control now, and it wouldn't cost me a penny. But I don't trust it. Everything fails, and the stakes are way too high. I am obviously supportive of abortion rights, but it is not a decision I would want to have to face in my own life. Furthermore, even if I had no personal hesitations, I would feel unsafe going anywhere near a women's clinic in the current environment, frankly. I wouldn't even want to go in for a pap smear. The lunatic protestors outside those places don't seem to understand that people use them for other reasons.
Yes, I suppose I could be sterilized, but **** that. Why should I have to go that route? Why should I have to make the decision right now that I will definitely NEVER want children, and then go through a highly invasive and expensive operation, just so I can get some dick? Not worth it.
I love my boyfriend a whole hell of a lot, but that's still very much not worth it to me. I assume he'll eventually tire of my stance, and most likely before my fertility evaporates altogether. He'll find a less neurotic chick, and she'll probably be younger and hotter than me. But I still won't regret my choices. When I was sexually active, every time I even caught a whiff of this debate, I had palpitations. Now, I just feel sad for everybody, but I don't have to deal with that ever-present fear and odd sense of shame anymore.
So then, righties who froth at the mouth over this issue, I guess you've won. You wanted women to be too afraid to have sex and to associate it with shame. Worked pretty well on me, although it wouldn't have when I was younger and less sensitive. I don't really miss PIV all that much, though, and I sleep peacefully at night knowing that the Junior Anti-Sex League has no reason to **** with me.
If I wasn't already in a relationship, I doubt I would pursue one at this point. When my current one ends, I'm hanging up my jersey. I can't trust anyone anymore. I can't trust new men not to have gross assumptions about women buried within them. I can't trust new people to be sane or empathetic in any way. Moreover, I'm almost 100% positive that it isn't possible to establish a new monogamous relationship without putting "all the way out" at some point. (Well, maybe I'll meet a man with no dick or something. A girl can dream!)
Do the people who support this law really think that no one should have sex unless they're married and ready for a baby? Or do they truly not believe that birth control can fail if properly used? I want to know what they see as the ideal situation. No sex outside of marriage? No birth control failures? What?
I didn't watch the video either. I partially stole it from an episode of Family Guy. He tells Lois that "If I win, I get anal. I mean it, the whole house, clean, top to bottom."
