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A new lawsuit argues that Manila's ban on contraception has had a devastating effect on poor women.
  • Whining/Symbol man

    Whining is harping on the same old thing over and over again. You do it, I call it. I don't see how it anything to do with gender, sexual orientation or discrimination/lack thereof towards either.

    Frankly, your efforts to attach the big guns of homophobia to bolster up your argument sounds like more whining. The parallels between that whining kids big guns, "I won't love you if you don't give me a cookie," are pretty clear to me.

    Why do men have to support children they father? Because single mothers tend to end up on welfare and why should society bear the burden you're not willing to bear? You don't want society, in the interests of reducing unwanted pregnancies, to prevent you from enjoying your social life. Sticking you in the stocks for 'illicit' sex.

    And, as I pointed out, you have a lot of options to prevent fathering a child you don't want. And let's face it, if guys could get away with walking away from their children, a lot of them (maybe not you, but a lot of them) wouldn't be bothered with birth control.

    And you know the rules. You know what your options are. What's your problem?

    Get a vasectomy and use a condom and start worrying about more likely scenarios, like the chances lightening will strike you dead.