Since the fall of Roe v Wade almost two-and-a-half years ago, direct-to-consumer women’s health companies like Wisp have flourished, offering birth control and emergency contraceptives on demand with the same glossy branding found in a Sephora aisle. The companies claim they remove much of the inconvenience, shame and stigma that often accompany a trip to the doctor or pharmacy, and provide alternate methods of access to contraception at a time when clinics are shuttering and legislators threaten to make providing even the most basic of women’s healthcare a crime.
But they also turn what is often a life-altering medication into a trendy consumer product; commodifying its use and spinning the social and political conversation around it into a marketing strategy.
Idiot fucking Marxists. Commodification is bad, see. So, cheaply and easily available contraception is bad. Right?
Fuckwits.
Sure, it’s possible that a thing is good or bad. Even, good in some ways and bad in others. But whingeing about commodification is just proof that you’re an idiot.
Tim
I think what they’re trying to say is that commodification is bad, see. So cheaply and easily available contraception is good.
To me, of course, it sounds as though the market is handling it all perfectly well. As I’d expect.
legislators threaten to make providing even the most basic of women’s healthcare a crime
I’m torn between wanting to know what’s involved here and absolutely not wanting to.
Obviously it’s better to have stuff provided by the state because it means that the state can dish it out for favours.
“These companies have a financial interest in patients they serve utilizing the medications they promote”
Lefty women can never just be happy, can they? Someone makes getting contraception convenient, probably cheaper (as it’s mail order), something they want, you’d think they’d be “this is good” but no, they have to find a way to be miserable about it.
As is often the case, the Lefties mislead by throwing in things that don’t fit. Sure, abortion is harder to come by in some states since Roe v Wade was overturned. But to argue that contraception and “women’s healthcare” are under assault is bollocks.
I’m guessing “emergency contraceptives” is code for abortifacients. For people who claim that abortion is a good thing, they seem to need to obfuscate quite a lot.
Karley Sciortino, a sex influencer, former Vice columnist and the founder of the blog Slutever, is known for her unfiltered writing on kink and dating (a sample advice column is titled “Should I Be Double-Teamed by a Couple Twice My Age?”) .
The Taliban did nothing wrong.
On Instagram, she occasionally posts sponsored content promoting personal lubricants and vibrators
What happened to normal sex?
Sciortino sprawled on her bed in hot-pink lipstick, recalling her visits to judgmental doctors to get Plan B as a teen. “Sometimes they’d be like: ‘Why do you need it?’ And it’s like: ‘Take a wild guess, bro,’” she jokes.
“Because you’re a whore?” – doctors.
Julie Schott, the marketing whiz behind Starface acne stickers, co-founded her own eponymous line of emergency contraceptives in September 2022, with the explicit purpose of reducing stigma around the product for younger generations.
Is this like how the rabbi that owns Pornhub wants to normalise pornography in the West? Why would you want that?
Esteban:
Well, according to Planned Parenthood, “women’s healthcare” begins and ends with abortion. That’s what all their clinics provide, and it’s the only thing they provide.
So after the decision, I’m guessing a number of their clinics have much less business and they’re sore about it.
“Idiot fucking Marxists. Commodification is bad, see. So, cheaply and easily available contraception is bad. Right?”
Of course… What I get from the article is that The Überevil Kapitalist Market has achieved in a couple of years what all the screaming harpies failed to accomplish in decades: effective and cheap anticonception and “post-coïtal care” , without all the hassle.
Serves roughly 95% of womenfolk just fine, allowing you to focus your attention on the 5% where The Usual doesn’t work for, for whatever reason, making “primary female healthcare” that much more efficient.
Of course… That means far less opportunity for the grifters to make a living Busybodying….
Must make them fume from the ears…
Lefty cat-ladies in America want the same thing as lefty cat-ladies in Britain: to be gatekeepers for the rest of society.
Consider UK infrastructure. The application to re-open the Portishead branch line is 79,187 pages long. Each page is a job for a gatekeeper, sitting in a nice air-conditioned office, ruling arbitrarily over other people’s lives.
In America, the Left wants free contraception; but it also wants women to have nice jobs talking down to younger women (female intra-sexual competition), making snide remarks about their promiscuity, then signing off on their contraceptives anyway.
Presumably they also hate LARCs (Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives) because they only require renewing once every five years or so. But they can’t explain why – indeed they probably don’t understand their own motives – so they’re left spluttering, like this article.
Esteban,
The morning-after-pill does one of two things. It prevents or delays ovulation (which is like a contraceptive) and it also prevents a fertilised egg from attaching to the womb. So, I don’t think either of those count as abortion (maybe the second one? dunno)
Anyway, they’re legal everywhere in the USA. It’s what the Texas people say about rape – take the morning after pill.
>shame and stigma that often accompany a trip to the doctor or pharmacy
What is wrong with women.
They’re ashamed of periods. They’re ashamed of birth control. But its *men* who have to carry the burden of making them feel better about it?