It's interesting. Esthetically it's a great commercial, very good catch. Very graphic, straight to the point.
It's a fun commercial to watch mindlessly.
But then your brain wakes up: starting after 0:16 s for the written comments, and 0:30s for the speech, all you hear and see are warnings of SERIOUS side effects.
It's like the lady is leaving her old routine of daily pill (with some interesting cardio-vascular risks)for a new routine of the ring. She is getting into the same swimming pool full of side effects...
Is it really worth it?
Is this really freedom? to choose between the pill and the ring? to go from a risk of heart attack to an other one??
I think my fertility is NOT a monstrous disease to keep as far as possible.
I know how my body works, I work with it. I don't need shots and drugs to postpone getting pregnant!
When I see that kind of commercial I wonder where the feminists are...
This just makes me sick! A woman should be always infertile so she can be available for sex.
But where are the pills for men?
Why should the woman deliberately become sterile to be sexually active without "risking a pregnancy", but not the man?
When my brain wakes up after that commercial I get really upset. Because where I grew up we were taught about birth control even before our period started, we were trained to chose a birth control method long before we even had thoughts about sex... I took the pill as a teenager, I didn't know about the side effects, I didn't know about its efficiency (or non-efficiency) rate. I just did what I was supposed to because I was old enough to do so. Now I think I was manipulated. Birth control is a big market. Natural ways are free, they won't bring money to big pharmaceutic companies...Now I'm fertile, and proud to chose what is best for me, knowingly. :)
Wow "I'm fertile" almost sounds gross...
Update:I just found a great great update of commercial, a parody of birth control pill...
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Isn't interesting that a culture can convince us that the very essences of our human selves are "bad."
I have so many infertile acquaintences.
Fertility is a gift.
Great post.
I had planned on learning about the mini-pill after I had my 4th. child in 4 years. However, my doctor recommended NFP, the Creighton Method to be exact.
After looking into that method and seeing the cost (time and money) involved, I decided to get back into FAM (which is based on the billings method as well). We've alterred the plan and are doing a bit of our own thing (mainly just recognizing the signs of fertility and such)It's been 15 months since I had my last baby and I'm not pregnant yet, (which was what my husband and I were planning for the time being).
Charting has also helped me recognize patterns in my cycle- such as certain times when I cry every single month. There were other patterns I've noticed too.
I will be educating my children on how this all works! I want my daughters to have an understanding for how their cycles work and to recognize when they're fertile! It amazes me that so many women have no clue how!
I was on the mini-pill for a few months after my (surprise blessing) son was born. But the effects of it PLUS breast feeding have been really hard to deal with, as a couple. I stopped taking it about 15 days ago, and I can already tell the difference. I'm really hoping that we can start NFP as well!
I really appreciated this part of your post:
"A woman should be always infertile so she can be available for sex.
But where are the pills for men?
Why should the woman deliberately become sterile to be sexually active without "risking a pregnancy", but not the man?"
I think this is such a valid point! Jenn at Conversion Diary also has a great post about the effects of birth control and femininity.
http://www.conversiondiary.com/2007/06/contraception-and-womans-self-image.html
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