neurodivergent-karen:

rainbowloliredux:

Women who hide severe side effects of birth control such as painful cramps, vomiting, etc. under some guise of “uwu this is why boys don’t take birth control~” and try to pretend that atypical symptoms and nasty side effects are perfectly normal and common should never be permitted on talking about the shit ever again. 

Stop encouraging young women to think that those types of side effects are perfectly normal and are the reason why there is no effective male form of birth control. 

That is neither normal nor healthy

“The reason why male birth control hasn’t been invented yet is because men might have bad symptoms from it” is a take that makes me want to scream every time I see it. The biggest reason male birth control hasn’t been invented yet (besides pharmaceutical companies not thinking it’s profitable/people assuming men won’t take it) is just because of physiological differences between people who have ovaries and people who have testes. Here’s a decent article about all of this.

I’ve been on birth control for the past four years and I’ve never had symptoms like this. Actually, the main reason why I’m taking it is because it makes my periods much less severe and also helps my bad cystic acne.

If your method of birth control makes you feel like crap, please please please go back to your doctor. Talk to them about either changing your birth control pill prescription or using another form of birth control such as IUDs/implants.