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I don’t hate men. I don’t think they’re evil. I think they’re doing their best, right? I have a lot in my life that I adore. Perhaps no one’s really pointed out to them before, “This is how you can engage responsibly. Hey, your sperm can cause serious problems for another person.” Once it clicks for them, they’re like, Oh, I create a dangerous substance with my own body, and I gotta be really careful with that. Period. This argument began as a Twitter thread in 2018. What was percolating in your mind back then that made you zero in on men and pregnancy prevention? I was done having kids. My husband had had a vasectomy years before, so I hadn’t had to worry about birth control for a few years. I read some statistics about how many abortions there were per year, and it was higher than I expected. I talk to women for a living. This is what I’ve done since 2006, in online and public and private forums. The idea that women would just be like, Yes, I wanna go have an invasive procedure instead of birth control—that didn’t make sense. And it was like: light-bulb moment. Until my husband’s vasectomy, I tried every kind of birth control, and that might be counterintuitive because I do have six kids, but I actually got to choose when I had my kids. That was an amazing, empowering thing. On the Elon Musk @elonmusk THe bird is freed shirt In addition,I will do this other hand, I hated the pill. I hated the shot. IUD? I bled for a year. Birth control’s really hard for a lot of people. Even if you’re not having side effects, it’s so much work. You have to find a doctor that’s on your insurance, if you have insurance. The steps to even get to the doctor, transportation issues, budget issues, childcare. A full-body exam. And then you have to take it every day, and you’re only fertile 12 to 24 hours of that month. It’s absolutely insane.