I don’t know if anyone else has seen the ongoing trend of people posting “propaganda I’m not falling for” but it’s about to make me lose my mind.
So far, I’ve seen WOMEN overwhelmingly list birth control. In a time that is so scary for women’s health and reproductive freedom, can we not try to paint birth control with a broad brush?
I understand that there are risks. I understand that it is not everyone’s choice. But to say that birth control is propaganda in a way to dissuade women, is so odd to me.
I have been on BC for nearly a decade and it has been an absolute lifesaver. And not even to just stop pregnancy. It has helped with the painful and depressive episodes that my menstrual cycle caused. I have heard countless other stories from women and the ways BC has improved their health.
Women’s health is under attack. And I am horrified to see women be a part of this attack.
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Most of these social media “trends” are simply rage bait and can be ignored. I suggest doing so for your sanity. Birth control as propaganda is not a commonly held belief, and I’d even venture to say is a belief only held by those that don’t care they are losing their autonomy.
Yikes… That is so bizarre that it sounds fake. Not like you made it up, but fake like astroturfing or some sort of organized trolling. There’s no way that actual human women are saying that in any numbers.
Propaganda I’m not falling for:
“We’re doing this for your own good”
“I lost the Epstein files”
“Trans women are a threat”
Greedo shot first.
It’s all part of the Project 2025 plan to make women skeptical of birth control so they can start eroding access to it. Next they’ll start “investigating” common birth controls for “unknown risks” and then use their fake findings to start outlawing the methods. It’s the same playbook they’re already using for the vaccines and fluoride.
Remember half of women live like medicine is exactly the same as it was in the 70-80s right?
We have older women consistently passing on horror stories of birth control like these issues weren’t solved by 2000-2010. Then the stupid plugged it into the new age health algorithm and continued a narrative that modern birth control makes you fat. Really it’s just that.
They invented an IUD that reduces bad periods or makes them gone for seven blessed years, but all that scary rhetoric tells women it is better to just get completely sterilized because birth control is so bad and they could never possibly change their mind across 35-40 years.
Thing is if we taught the truth of now and the medical advanced of now and doctors, nurses, and people flat out paid attention there would be many more happy and free young women with all the choices for all the stages of their life.
There is deep work going on by conservatives in the US to discredit birth control. I’ll see if I can find the article, but basically, it’s a pro-natalist movement using influencers they created to just hammer this idea into social media.
Just taking this moment to say:
I LOVE MY IUD.
There’s been a shift in what social media is pushing on women. I’m pregnant and am getting a LOT of Instagram propaganda about not vaccinating babies, not following medical advice for pregnancy and birth, weird ass supplements to treat heavy metal poisoning after vaccinating children (????), and just good old trad wife content. Every day I get a few more reels and it’s a huge portion of my content now even though I scroll past it and don’t interact and actively follow actual medical accounts.
“Propaganda I’m not falling for” is itself a propaganda campaign meant to undermine birth control. The religious right had been pushing this for years. It’s just a new form.
They used to claim and maybe still do that hormonal birth control like the pill and the IUD are causing abortions.
Well what’s the point of raping a woman if you’re not going to knock her up at the same time? /s