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Sterilise young girls, says Daily Mail columnist
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=514542&in_page_id=1770
I can only hope the above article is a joke...
Though it wouldn't surprise me if some people said it is a good idea...
I can only hope the above article is a joke...
Though it wouldn't surprise me if some people said it is a good idea...
Beep boop. I'm a bot.
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If we banned the daily mail would people still think like this? :chin:
Yes. The Daily Mail is simply their mouth piece. :thumb:
For the record, I have always been for offering such things to teenage girls. Certainly not a nationwide immunisation to go along with your TB injection in school though.
Going back to the article, nice photograph it's illustrated with is it not? I'm surprised they didn't use an image of Vicky Pollard to drive the message home even further...
Hey, give them some credit. They decided against having a heroin needle sticking out of her left arm.
How so? No one's censoring your comments on this board.
On a side note, I'd love to read her non-fiction book mentioned at the bottom - "What Makes Women Happy". Sounds like it would a right laugh!
I think it's a bad idea to advise people not to get long term contraception because they won't use a condom and then catch an STI - it's in some ways similar to how people in Africa were told just not to have sex because condoms weren't effective against AIDs. Less information -> fear -> supposedly making people take extra precautions. Unfortunately it never seems to work like that.
I really am an advocate of informing people about as much as they can get. The pill doesn't stop STIs either yet people are happy to use that, and look back and don't regret not using condoms.
It's not though. Censorship means you aren't allowed to express your opinion but this is a pretty free, open forum here. Not completely free - it's for young people and so there have to be some boundaries, as people who get banned for posting porn / racism / youname it show.
But people disliking you for your opinion is never the same as not allowing you to speak it. As for that, I don't know who you think hates you on here?
You've got a point about 'dealing with symptoms not problems' but look at the size of society now - I think yes it's good to have idealogical changes over generations that make people respect each other more - but day to day you need measures in society to stop exploitation, danger, all that kind of thing.
Mind you there was a poster several years ago who made a reasoned argument for anarchy, but I don't think it's viable - and more to the point - I don't think it's a discussion for this thread either.
Plenty of condoms are available to kids though, unless you walk around blindfolded / with your ears covered. For me and friends part of the problem was certainly the taboo - none of our parents were open about sex and so going into a shop to get condoms - or even going to the school nurse, was always scary and put me off from the get go.
But I don't see any harm in giving kids the option of 5 year contraception through a pill or injection or whatever. Making it compulsory is a bad idea, but having the info there...
Cuntish thing to say, and do.
Oh, I'm all for advising them of their options and letting them make an informed decision about things. The writer seems to be advocating more than just informed decisions though; "steered towards" is the phrase used. And on a more personal note, from my experience trying to get the doctors to give out long term contraception if you aren't in a stable relationship is nothing short of a nightmare.
Yea but doctors are pretty awkward full stop. I know they know what they're talking about but they do see themselves as higher beings . Two weeks ago I went to one and he didn't believe the symptoms I was describing he thought I'd misinterpreted them. Losing vision in one eye and not the other is not misinterpreting it (textbook definition of migraine sometimes causes some loss of vision in both eyes, I was just unusual and had total loss of vision in one eye, without any other migraineos symptoms)
I'm not sure how to take steered towards though, afterall - it's the daily mail anything coming from them is 90% imagination and 10% prejudice.
Such fucked up relationship can only end up in bitter tears and it's going to create far more grief than it's worth it.
Or what even about someone whose best decision is actually a really poor one, but they can't help themselves (heroin addicts, for example).
It's never going to be about 'one rule to answer them all', every situation that ever occurs in the history of everything will always have many different interpretations with no single one being the right one.
It's her fault you're having sex with her?
Just to make people aware - whilst I don't consider it censorship J's recent postings seem to make it clear that these boards are encouraging rather than helping a mental health problem, and allowing an outlet of often offensive postings that may otherwise be delt with in a more professional setting.
So whilst I don't want to censor anyone, I do consider it important that if someone is becoming more unwell do this place, that it may be better for them to take a break - as they have in the past.
J's already been spoken to about this, and I want to do my best to hope people understand the decisions we may have to take soon.
We'll see though.
I think it's quite obvious the author has been living on the moon for the past, say, ever.
However the concept that sex for fun is wrong is relatively new in the context of human history. Civilisations 2000 years ago were certainly more socially advanced in certain aspects than our own civilisation was only a few decades ago.
Next you'll have nepotism at the Guardian...
It being disapproved upon doesn't mean that it didn't go on.
Was it the Tudors or the Victorians who shagged a lot?
Thankfully both, or we wouldn't be here...