Well, this guy’s got it all figured out.
I love that he’s got all the little details worked out, like the extra PDF copy, the email notification, all that. It’s FOOLPROOF, I tell ya!
This was the best (by which I mean worst) response in the comments, from a fellow called Gaiinahat:
No. It’s unnecessary. Men just have to be smart about it, or suffer the consequences. Bring your own condoms. Use your own condoms. Flush your condoms when you’re done. If she don’t want to use condoms, don’t have sex. It’s not rocket science. Just use common freaking sense.
“BuT iM oN tHe PiLL!” If I didn’t see you take it, and I didn’t see the doctor shoot it into you, as far as I’m concerned, you’re not on the pill. “BuT iM aLlErGiC tO cOnDoMs!” Then I guess it’s just you and your vibrating rabbit tonight. I’m going to go find a chick who ISN’T “allergic” to condoms. There are women out there who will call you out and say, “Hey, my friend needs some dick. You in or you out?” Let’s go, bitch, I’m in.
Men, don’t be stupid. A piece of ass is not worth it. All it takes is one time.
Oh, by the way, if someone is allergic to condoms, by which they probably mean that they’re allergic to latex, guess what, you can buy other kinds of condoms that aren’t made of latex. In other news, I’m guessing the guy who wrote this comment is 14 years old and does not actually go around giving ultimatums to “bitches.”
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In before anyone compares this to a pre-nup.
Actually, it’s kinda like a demented version of a pre-nup…
On first thought, for the purpose proposed here, the only remotely sensible solution would be to have your (female) sex partner sign the waiver in person. Very much like a prenup, indeed.
On second thought, a major part of the proposal seems to be that there needs to be a legal push to socially normalize this kind of liability waiver, by mandating it on all women who have sex while choosing to use common, effective contraception methods (however impractical that might be). Because otherwise you wouldn’t be able to find almost any women who’d agree to this kind of bullshit. Especially since you know that most other men are willing to take the risk, as it is.
Well, that is rather telling again, isn’t it?
Oh, your plumber must love you.
This guy took the time to think through this totally surefire strategy, but he’s not aware that the pill is a hormonal contraceptive. Women don’t take a pill just before — and only before — sex. Twenty pills last some months? No. If he’d bothered to do a 5-second Google search, he’d look slightly less idiotic.
https://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-pills
Just one more example of a guy who’s obsessed with women’s bodies and doesn’t give one thought to how our bodies work.
Also, this:
Yes, this is a very common scenario. Extremely common. More common than not.
These jokers remind me of anti-vaxxers in the sense that they want all the rights but none of the responsibilities. They want the right to have sex with young, single, and pretty (to their shallow standards) women but none of the responsibility of any children that come along as a result. I imagine most women who end up in bed with one of these assholes will figure out how to get an abortion, but some…
I initially read “flush” as meaning “rinse”, as in destroying the sperm in the condom with water. Again my personal bias showing – for one thing, it doesn’t easily occur to me that people might actually flush condoms down the toilet. For another thing, rinsing a used condom before trashing it is actually my own irrational habit that probably rarely occurs to other people. It’s not related to any “spermjacking” fear but rather my feelings about cleanliness.
AFAIK in Finland you can have a sperm donation contract between the donor and recipient if the sperm is transferred in person, rather than anonymously via sperm bank. I presume it goes something like, “If woman A becomes pregnant during period XY, it is presumed to be within her agreement with man B to have a child without involving B as father, even if B is in fact the biological father. Thus, B may not be recognized as the child’s father under any circumstances.”
This kind of in-person donation can happen with or without medical assistance (usually without), it may or may not involve direct sexual contact (usually not), but I suppose a similar contract could be applied in sexual relationships where pregnancy is in fact unwanted. Like, when the woman absolutely doesn’t want to involve a certain man in her life as a co-parent of any possible child. Or if she really wants to have sex with him and he doesn’t want to be a father.
Manospherians always talk about this in terms of child support money, insinuating it’d be some huge windfall for the woman. They may or may not be aware that extraction of child support is only possible if their paternity has been formally recognized, and then they’d usually have some legal rights to socially associate with the child (and practically the woman, too), even if they happen to an asshat who only uses this association for abuse/bragging purposes, without contributing anything positive to the child’s upbringing or daily care.
AFAIK in Finland a man could theoretically have his paternity recognized without the woman’s consent, even outside of marriage, if biological paternity can be established. Or at least such amendment to law has been recently in process. A sperm donation contract could preclude this, though in my opinion women probably should have the right to refuse recognition of paternity.
@ lumipuna
In England the law is that if you go through ‘official’ channels, then the sperm donor is not regarded as the father; but if you do an informal arrangement then he is.
https://www.gov.uk/legal-rights-for-egg-and-sperm-donors
As to getting recognised in law as a parent; this explains the rules quite succinctly.
https://www.gov.uk/parental-rights-responsibilities/who-has-parental-responsibility
I’m allergic to latex condoms (which is what most condoms are made of) so if I have sex with a guy and we use a condom he’s using these stupid rubber condoms I have to use that tear easier and stretch out so if you get soft in them they just slip off. they caused a lot of problems for me when I was using condoms.
I just love the whole idea that it’s common for women to lie about being on birth control, for the purpose of getting pregnant and then getting child support.\s Talk about not understanding how something works, in a practical sense…a woman is pregnant for 9 months. There are the costs of pregnancy, including not being able to work, for however long. Especially in the US, a country without universal health care. But, yeah, getting pregnant out of wedlock is just like hitting the lottery!
@Elaine the Witch: I suppose you’ve heard of lambskin condoms. They’re supposed to feel better than latex, but they also don’t protect against certain STDs. I guess vegetarians/vegans would object to them, too. And, they’re expensive.
My husband and I tried lambskin condoms once when I had to go onto antibiotics and was warned they could interfere with the pill. Now this was back in the late 80s/early 90s so they may have improved since them but we remember two things:
1) They’re oddly baggy (unless they were sized and I didn’t know it), very much resembling sausage casings;
2) There’s a distinct odor of sheep/lanolin, which can be a real moment killer unless you have romantic memories of the state fair.
Not surprising. That’s what they are – lamb intestines. Made from the upper bowel.
Dormousing_it:
Sometimes in mainstream culture, I see the notion that women in long term relationships might sabotage their shared birth control* if they really want children (and don’t want or can’t switch to another partner). Or if they think having a child would help “secure” their partner’s commitment**, or if they feel being a STAHM would be the best available job right now***. Maybe once long ago I saw the notion that you might try to get lavish child support by having a child with some super rich man.
However, only manospherians have cooked up the idea that a woman might try to get pregnant with ordinary one night stands/fuckbuddies for child support money. Including men who want to take reasonable precautions, like actually using a condom. Manospherians imagine far-fetched scenarios about “spermjacking”, and get terribly hung up over the fact that law doesn’t absolve them from responsibility in this hypothetical scenario where they act responsibly and the woman then maliciously sabotages their contraception. Many of these guys are probably very young and/or have no concept of adult relationships. However, you can bet some of those fueling this paranoia are deadbeat dads who absolutely want to negligently or deliberately impregnate women and get away with it.
*Fairly easy, if the man already taken the position of not worrying about birth control at all, leaving it entirely to the woman, as often happens.
**This doesn’t usually work well, everyone says.
***My friend (an older college educated woman) claimed these are usually very young, uneducated women who have very poor career prospects and a rosy view of motherhood.
Two big issues with this. Hormonal birth control is very effective when taken correctly, but it is not 100% There’s also human error, such as forgetting a dose or two and there’s drug interactions, including with unregulated supplements that can reduce its effectiveness. The idea that someone who says they’re on the pill and then becomes pregnant must have been lying to get child support is absurd.
The other big issue is that child support is for the child, not for the custodial parent. Punishing the kid because the pregnancy was unintended is stupid. Typical MRA nonsense though, they whine and complain about mothers getting custody more often, but it’s pretty clear MRAs don’t get custody not because they’re men, but because they don’t actually give a shit about the kids. They just see custody disputes as a competition to win against “bitches.”
I highly support these guys insisting on condom use though. That part is good.
If this guy is so worried, why not just have his potential partners sign the waiver directly? That way, they’ll know up front exactly who he is, and it will filter out all women who would prefer not to be involved in any reproductive capacity with a whiny, paranoid deadbeat. Which hopefully is close to 100%.
Is anyone else tired of this 4chan thing of using mixed case ransom-note letters to make an opponent sound deranged, illiterate, and easily dismissed? It’s not just annoying, it’s ableist as hell.
@Dormousing_it
I haven’t actually heard of lambskin condoms. I mean which is reasonable, I haven’t been having sex for very long, only like the last 4 or 5 years or so. my husband and I don’t use condoms at all now unless we have another partner in our sex lives. the fear of sti’s is not something that’s in my life anymore. Which I’m glad for because I find condoms really gross. I’m a big supporter of everyone using them and I would use them if needed, but they cause me so many problems. there is the latex things, but then I am also allergic to a lot of different sexual lubricants so pre lubed condoms are out. and this might just be me, but I am really prone to getting UTIs. I think condoms make it easier for me to get a UTI, because the times i did use them I got really bad ones I needed medication for. I get UTIs sometimes with sex from my husband but I can take care of those with home remedies.
@Lumipuna: I know of a case where a man was married with 2 children, and he didn’t want any more kids. His wife had other ideas. She purposely got pregnant, without letting him know she had stopped taking the pill. This is him telling me the story, BTW, but I believe it. I don’t blame him for being angry. He was the sole breadwinner in the family.
I know it happens at times. Like you said, it’s a long shot with a casual sexual relatIonship. A manospherian fantasy.
I have lived a sheltered life, but it still says something that in more than thirty years on this planet, I only personally know one young woman whom I suspect got pregnant “accidentally” on purpose. So, yeah “pretty common” indeed.
(She was from a messed up household, suffered from depression, and seemed to have basically nobody in her life, lousy relationship with her mother, no real friends, boyfriend was cheating on her… I think she was desperate to get some kind of attention or meaning in her life and legitimately thought a baby might help. Honestly, so many people thought she was stupid and useless, but I felt so sorry for her.)
@Lumipuna
There’s also their transactional, zero-sum view of relationships to consider here. In that view, it would make sense that each side might try to cheat the other in some way.
It’s a sad, diminished, empty view they have.
I can personally recommend lambskin condoms. Except I think they’re not as good at preventing diseases as the other types, or at least they weren’t when I used them. That wasn’t a problem for us, but I’m sure Chad Thundercocks like these guys (LOL) should consider that.
@Lumipuna
It’s not surprising at all to hear about men flushing used condoms down the toilet. If you ever take a tour of, or watch a documentary about water treatment facilities it comes up a lot. Same goes for flushing period pads, or tampons down the toilet after use. It’s actually a pretty serious problem and its illegal most places to do such things.
I have a sneaking suspicion that these are the kinds of guys who will make any excuse to get out of wearing a condom.
Everyone seems to be missing that he also argued (out of fairness, I guess) that bepenised people buying condoms must also sign a waiver relinquishing claims of child support.