Question Everything

stfuconservatives:

“A Georgetown co-ed told Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex that they’re going broke, so you and I should pay for their birth control,” whines a grown man who doesn’t want to pay for icky lady things.

He goes on to slut-shame every single woman at Georgetown, without mentioning the idea that maybe some men are involved with all this premarital intercourse until about the last paragraph.

Then he posits than women use the $1,000 a year they spend on birth control to buy condoms from CVS.com. (Why? I don’t know. Even if insurers covered birth control, that wouldn’t include condoms.) So by his logic, if condoms on *one web site* are a dollar each, and condoms are apparently the only form of birth control he is familiar with, women are having sex three times a day. Seriously, that’s his conclusion: women in law school are mega-sluts who must barely have time to crack a book in between the thrice-daily sexytimes.

Never mind that:

1. No one is arguing that insurers should be forced to cover condoms (though I’m certainly not opposed to that idea)
2. Other forms of birth control exist besides condoms
3. Hormonal birth control only really works if you take it every month, even when you aren’t having sex, so you still incur birth control costs even if you’re just taking the pill on the off-chance of having a one-night stand at some point

And as always, dear readers, don’t read the comments. I SAID DON’T READ THEM. Oh, you read them, didn’t you? Fine. Your punishment is that YOU have to make a comment too, telling those commenters and this asshole that yes, your insurance that you pay the premium for should cover the medications that you take, including the ones that allow you to have non-procreative sex.

-Jess