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Via The Daily Dish, Newsweek's fascinating -- and frightening -- timeline/slideshow showing the evolution of contraception. Must be seen to be believed how women were persecuted and tortured through the ages, just for not wanting to be pregnant again and again.
H/t @thejoshuablog on Twitter who blogs here.
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Antonia Zerbisias has been a Star columnist since 1989 but has been telling people what she thinks ever since she could open her mouth. Her career ambition as an opinionator dates back to Grade 9 when a cartoon commentary on a teacher resulted in her suspension from high school. The principal sent her home with a note calling her "rude, obstreperous and bold." Her parents were neither amused, nor surprised. Once she was punished for being that way. Now she makes it pay. And, because she can take it as well as dish it out, she wants to hear what you have to say. Fire away!
Pardon me for finding some double-edged sword humour in this post, but the subject of contraception raises the age-old question of how to do the 'crime' without doing the time. Obviously, the part that is not funny (when applied to the subject of contraception) is the question within of how many (i.e., what percentage) of rapists 'opt' to protect themselves by wearing a condom. My guess is that most use condoms even when birth control pills are noticed nearby, and even when found in packages indicating up-to-date and previously faithful consumerism by their victims.
But without knowing the real numbers of rapists who use condoms it seems difficult to imagine why offenders would worry about protecting their victims by using contraception, except perhaps to protect themselves from diseases and/or just to later eat their own evidence... figuratively speaking, of course. Or literally, who knows? Drug mules are known to eat more potentially lethal things than that.
There is a lot of double-edged sword humour in the rest of slide presentation accompanying this post, but I like the first slide shown above the best for two reasons.
It works well within the context of contraception, but also appears to show the opposite point of view than the one usually reflected by feminists, at least in terms of the way the slide shows a woman beating down the stork and baby, not a man. The point, however, seems valid enough within the context of contraception, as long as it is true that women are fighting a mostly one-sided battle to compel men to use condoms. What do the stats say about all of these questions?
A third reason I like the first slide shown above is that it reminds me of a piece of music that I think would make a fitting silent film soundtrack http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Flight_of_the_Bumble_Bee/22951757
Posted by: Jim M | November 02, 2009 at 05:04 AM
The pointed instrument into the mouth of the stork is also pretty compelling imagery, no?
Posted by: Luna | November 03, 2009 at 08:41 PM
"The pointed instrument into the mouth of the stork is also pretty compelling imagery, no?"
Luna Mo Run,
That's clearly the umbrella handle - she's taking a swing.
Posted by: The Stygian and his Shemitish Dogs | November 04, 2009 at 10:56 PM