Has the pill broken women?

Just saying if you could put that article in some kind of online drop box that's be awesome

Yeah I've been saying it for ages that it makes sense. Personally I think it's a coping method to do with the stresses found in modern society that are wholly unnatural, mixed with a disintegrating family and friend emotional support network. Too many people have no one they can open up to, so I believe they turn to ONS' to temporarily plug in that emotional hole they have in their life. Whether we like it or not, nature gave us emotions and modern life doesn't cater for a lot of them. If you're angry, keep it hidden. If you're unhappy, put on a brave face and so on. As you say, it can very easily turn into a vicious cycle of wash, rinse, repeat.

The issue I have is ultimately this:
We live in a hookup culture. We now have evidence that such a culture is bad for you, something which innately we should be aware of, yet people act against their instincts. So this means one of two things. Either a lot of people are depressed and in denial, or something is making them act against their instincts. Even when considering Occam's Razor, it's hard to say which one it is but I'd like to think that people aren't so retarded they turn to what is in essence subtle self-harm, but maybe that's wishful thinking!

Lol
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/casualsex.htm

So your idea of fun is doing something that is known to be mentally damaging.

I don't think they'd be diagnosed with BPD, but definitely with emotional problems that need dealing with before they grow to something worse.

Life may be tough, but treating yourself like a jizz rag or dildo with a pulse isn't going to solve anything other than make yourself feel degraded.

So, what you've said is most likely in 10 years we're going to have a huge problem with depression because young people are turning to a mentally damaging act to cope with life. Maybe their lives are **** because they are shortsighted and immature. Think about it

I'd like to but unfortunately I'd be infringing on legal terms! ><

So what you're saying is, casual sex isn't a good thing, despite that our current society is trying to destigmatise promiscuity? I can see how that's make you sound like the villain if everyone is trying to be all for 'Do what you want! It's your body and your life!'. Then again you could mention that quote about heavy drinking, and we know how that affects people...

You have an extremely limited Knowledge of BPD, what it is, what tends to cause it and how it affects people, how debilitating it is, if you think you can compare women on estrogen based contraceptives to people with BPD.

I have a BPD partner, and yes, the joke has been made between close friends that "you're a woman then" but thats all it is, a joke! If you ever spent time or got close to anyone who actually suffered with BPD, you would realise exactly how different it is, and how the pill has absolutely nothing to do with it and how it is completely incomparible.

The pill has not broken women, the changes that effective contraception has brought (among other things) means that women are freer to engage in the same practices as men have been doing for decades without the same stigma.

Substance/alcohol abuse
Men are expected to drink, and are seen as weak or girly if they don't. Its far more acceptable and has been for years for men to be drunk than women, its not seen as abuse by society

Eating disorders
Men have never been expected to worry about things like weight and figure

Unprotected/indiscriminate sex with multiple partners
Men have been basically expected to behave like this for years. Its completely socially normal for men to have lots of risky sex

Men act in exactly the same way. Yet we don't consider them to have "symptoms of BPD"
Oh but, they don't get the guilt etc
Thats because society doesn't try to make them feel guilty about their behaviours, they're seen as normal, and while there is less stigma around women "acting like men have for years" it still exists.

I think the question is, what is it that makes you so uncomfortable about women behaving in exactly the same way as men have been doing for years. Does it make some men feel so threatened that they need to call women "broken" because the're on an equal footing.