http://www.pandagon.net/archives/2005/10/little_round_ef.htmlLittle, round, effective at destroying Western Civilization
Posted by Amanda Marcotte at 11:36 PM
BAH BAH BAH BUM.
They seem so innocent, don't they? Just sitting there in the little dial pack, cleverly disguised as just another one of those icky girlie make-up-y things, as if there was some kind of conspiracy to keep men from knowing about it. No sirs, she's not just powdering her nose! She's thwarting your manhood!
Just in time for Halloween, kiddos, a horror story to end all horror stories by Leon Kass. Yes, part two of his series known commonly as "Bitch, Get Back in the Kitchen", but what Kass would prefer us to call "The End of Courtship". This part is about how the birth control pill actually turns into a monster in the middle of the night that crawls up men's legs and detaches their testicles from their bodies. Oh wait, no. I'm sorry. It's about how romance is ruined when you have the sort of sex where you can relax and enjoy it because you aren't worried about getting pregnant.
Kass: "The sexual revolution that liberated (especially) female sexual desire from the confines of marriage, and even from love and intimacy, would almost certainly not have occurred had there not been available cheap and effective female birth control — the pill — which for the first time severed female sexual activity from its generative consequences."
Yes, I know. I had the same thought as anyone who knows jack about history. "But Mr. Kass, people used diaphrams, condoms and vasectomies before the pill was invented. What about that?" That's where you have to pay special attention to the fact that the pill is female birth control, and as I said before, a particularly sneaky kind of birth control, what with the making the pill pack look like Clariol put it out and all. (Devious ladies who are thwarting your man's good-hearted intentions to keep you pregnant all the time--since god knows there is nothing more romantic than swollen feet, weight gain, and labor pains--I recommend slapping like a L'Oreal sticker on your pills. Bwah ha ha! He'll never know!) In summary, the problem was that women shouldn't be allowed to get away with this shit.
Kass: "Thanks to technology, a woman could declare herself free from the teleological meaning of her sexuality — as free as a man appears to be from his."
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Kass: "Her menstrual cycle, since puberty a regular reminder of her natural maternal destiny, is now anovulatory and directed instead by her will and her medications, serving goals only of pleasure and convenience, enjoyable without apparent risk to personal health and safety."
Please go to the link above and read the whole article, Kass's statements and Amanda's rejoiners....scary and hilarious.