I don’t remember how my power-browsing got me to The Well-Timed Period today, but I’d be tipping my hat accordingly if I did. I think it’s pretty much common knowledge that women can use birth control pills to skip inconvenient periods. What I didn’t realize is that there are people who advocated doing it all [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Menstrual suppression: empowering or dangerous?
Posted in Other, tagged birth control pills, menstrual suppression, menstruation, periods, the pill on April 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Quick hits
Posted in Links, tagged Condoms, cost, the pill, yasmin on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A couple things that aren’t big enough for their own posts, but worthwhile and interesting nonetheless:
A man in South Africa bungee jumped using a rope made of condoms. “Latex is latex. But the cord was based on a mathematical formula and although I was 99 per cent sure that it would work, my stomach was [...]
It’s a Newmanium party
Posted in Links on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So as to avoid giving the impression that all male college journalists are idiots, I give you A Newman Scorned. It’s notable that I suggested Newman start a blog about TV before I even met him, and I’m delighted to be called one of the godparents of the most successful three-day-old blog on the internet. [...]
Cornell columnist is a misogynist, fool
Posted in Links, tagged advertising, Birth Control, cornell, misogyny, sex education, the pill, yaz on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So much sarcastic thanks to Tony Manfred (I hope he has a Google alert on his name) from the Cornell Daily Sun for pointing out what the real problem with sex education and contraception is: women are too well-informed.
I wouldn’t believe it if it weren’t coming from a male college journalist (and I won’t touch [...]
Bad side effects love company
Posted in Other, tagged Birth Control, side effects, the pill, yasmin on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m going to write a lot more about the side effects I’ve been dealing with since I started Yasmin soon. Right now I still feel like I’m going through the worst of it and I’m not quite ready to bare my soul, but this website has helped me more than you’d expect in the last [...]
Attitudes toward the male pill, via more famous bloggers
Posted in Links, tagged Birth Control, dana goldstein, male pill, matt yglesias, megan mcardle, tyler cowen on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prominent blogger Matt Yglesias (whom I usually adore, but still always hope to run into in DC so I can set him straight about a lot of things Texas- and South-related) ran a post the other day about the male birth control pill. The post is notable mostly for its comments that serve to showcase [...]
Blogging to end the wage gap
Posted in News: Politics, tagged discrimination, fair pay, john cornyn, kay bailey hutchison, ledbetter, sexism, texas, women on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This isn’t directly related to birth control, but I think gender equality is important in talking and making decisions about birth control, so pushing for it in a more public arena can only help bring it about privately. Women in America earn less than 80% of what men earn, and for African-Americans and Hispanics, the [...]
