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In reply to the discussion: If men could get pregnant [View all]kdmorris
(5,649 posts)57. Seems pretty evenly split to me...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2452654
I was not talking about the original post when I mentioned the pain - I was talking about the further comments about how the human race would be extinct (it has now been edited) if men were the ones bearing the babies. ETA: Or how one baby would be born and the man would do so much screaming that no other male would attempt it.
And the main point of my post was that OPs like this just alienates a segment of DU unnecessarily. You'd have a point if the vast majority of men (who have more power) were anti-choice, but they are not. If the gender with more power was overwhelmingly anti-choice, then maybe this OP would make sense. Since that isn't the case - this is just flamebait.
I was not talking about the original post when I mentioned the pain - I was talking about the further comments about how the human race would be extinct (it has now been edited) if men were the ones bearing the babies. ETA: Or how one baby would be born and the man would do so much screaming that no other male would attempt it.
And the main point of my post was that OPs like this just alienates a segment of DU unnecessarily. You'd have a point if the vast majority of men (who have more power) were anti-choice, but they are not. If the gender with more power was overwhelmingly anti-choice, then maybe this OP would make sense. Since that isn't the case - this is just flamebait.
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If men could get pregnant, birth control would come out of gumball machines.
Drunken Irishman
Mar 2013
#1
yes, they'd be an underclass based on the ability/ willingness of some to reproduce.
bettyellen
Mar 2013
#69
In that case, women AND men would be part of the bs anti-choice movement seeking to outlaw abortion.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2013
#13
I'm not sure I can help you see why it is hateful and offensive, but I'll try. Once.
Bonobo
Mar 2013
#20
Enough to get by. My native languages are German(Viennese dialect) and English.
hobbit709
Mar 2013
#31
But it must have been approved by male mod posing as a woman...????
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Mar 2013
#53
No, if men could get pregnant, women would have banned abortion for millennia
Recursion
Mar 2013
#39
It's just another example of how sexism directed at one gender almost always gets a pass here
Major Nikon
Mar 2013
#66
Those men sure aren't running state governments in IN, VA, MI, KS, OK, SD, etc., etc., etc.
MotherPetrie
Mar 2013
#76
Well, there's this little thing called the nineteenth amendment that you may have heard of...
Donald Ian Rankin
Mar 2013
#77
Then why don't all these abortion rights supporting men vote for prochoice candidates
MotherPetrie
Mar 2013
#78