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https://bsky.app/profile/juliaserano.bsky.social/post/3mp5szf7ie227
They want women to be subservient.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/opinion/gender-sexual-revolution-men-women.html
SleazyBijou
What is wrong with consequence-free sex? So repressed…
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
The NYT was always fairly centrist/right wing, but they were at least socially liberal. Now they're done. They're just laundering fascism.
BlindGardener
What's funny is that my parents gave me somewhat similar advice, but from a different angle "You should behave as though birth control could fail at any time, after all it failed with you and your two sisters. We were using birth control each time we got pregnant."
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Yep, everyone who's having sex should work under this assumption. If the woman's ok with having an abortion, then do what you want, I guess. But personally I don't want to have to have an abortion (I would, if I got pregnant now), so we use two forms of BC to protect me from having to do that. Anyone who doesn't want an accidental pregnancy should insist on the same, whether they're male or female.
OttoSilent
What the hell is wrong with consequence free sex?
scrumbles666
It removes the ability to use the burden of children/family as a means of social control over people, women in particular. This is the equivalent of asking what's wrong with black people using the same bathrooms as white people- inconvenience so there's something to endlessly scrutinize and police behavior over is the point.
MySushi
So, more teenage pregnancies is what Repugnicants want? That does not surprise me in the least. Always keep women oppressed, take away their sexual freedom and career prospects by burdening them with unintended pregnancies if they renounce christo-fascist values.
These people need to be deplatformed, they are the same ones hostile to immigrant minorities and now calling for enslavement of half our domestic population
Zange0
Yes. Fox has had people on calling for an increase in teen pregnancies. RFK Jr. has been talking about teenage sperm counts. It's not even coded, they are explicitly for teenage pregnancies.
lifeisadadjoke
Here comes the Handmaid's Tale
Puppies717
In her scenario, who are the men sleeping with? Is it only other men? there's still risk there.
Zyrixion
You know what, sure. Women should just stop having sex with men forever. Fuck knows absolutely every study and scrap of data shows that women lead both longer and happier lives the less they interact with or are in relationships with men. The worst part is I didn't even need to talk about how ugly that would get for women for you to start thinking it just by reading those sentences.
beeeeeeerkaaaaa
Dick guillotines will take care of forced sex.
Zyrixion
beeeeeeerkaaaaa
I prefer removal.
Eddyrock
I think we should behave as if billionaires who buy newspapers should be launched to the moon
DdCno1
With some slightly out of order staging for the rocket.
slack3rdav3
nah man, the direction of the sun. don't want to litter the moon.
Cearnaigh
We should definitely behave like that!
Probably more cost effective and environmentally friendly to send them down the mariana trench in a pringles can.
TORQD
@OP, you have my greatest respect. How you can find/post all this bullshit hour after hour, day after day, without losing your goddamn mind is completely beyond me. It must be exhausting
GwensBackOnHerBS
I like to be informed and I share the stuff that seems pertinent
trigaranus
Feck. I'll have to cancel my subscription to the NYT.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1aTJob2VpeTM2cXZjeXBua21rdDVjZ2V1dXI4dDNxZDRoM3g5dTc5NSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/bbK6pfIZJvqjVTuu4d/200w.webp
derekjohn
And, of course, Viagra (and the rest) should never be used, because there might be consequences the men have to pay for.
MsBehavinMaven
The actual fuck.
pinkypiesbutt
I am confused. Julie and Kathleen are calling the NYT out on their bullshit, correct? I dont want to look up the article as I assume it is behind a pay wall
GwensBackOnHerBS
I think it's free. It's free for me anyway. I added the link to the post
Iambadatnames1938
It's an opinion article. Literally anyone can submit those to the newspaper.
https://share.google/ZWJEdPGot6sea5UFV
TheoryOfRelativeTea
Iirc the Opinion articles are always free but the rest aren't. Guess which ones say the most conservative and MAGA shit...
pinkypiesbutt
okay Louise Perry said these things. Yeah, I dont like her. She is a Family Values bootlicker
itsallaboutthecones
This one is by: ROSS DOUTHAT AND SOPHIA ALVAREZ BOYD
Skuggen
I have another suggestion for something we should behave as if doesn't exist.
friendsofsandwiches
unfortunately, it feels like he's the MC, and we're just the NPCs.
stronomer
That's when you give religious fundamentalists even a hint of power.
SansAandAnguS
Amazing how the circle always seems to land at women's feet to these fucked up people. Meanwhile men get consequence free sex and get to blame women for unwanted pregnancies. FFS when will these dumb bitches realise that by doing the misogynists fucked up bidding they only condemn all women.
FrogLegSandwich
Ah yes, the quiet part out loud - they want consequences for women.
GrimleyGraves
The new sexual revolution uniforms just came in:
decyfeRtw
NYT hasn't been a truly respectable paper for a long while now, but their name still means something to a lot of people, that's part of the issue..
mja35
Ffs can we just be left alone. Why are all these creeps interested in my sexual life? Creeps, all of them.
CaptCrobar
Well of course the Epstein class wants more babies.
leroy666
Is there something wrong with consequence free sex? Or is this just good, old fashioned, bible thumping bullshit again! Fucking hypocrites.
bigdukesix
Opinion | Is it time for the writer of this article to go and fuck themselves?
itsallaboutthecones
This fucking asshole is who's being it. And wouldn't you know he? He's a devout Catholic convert.
jjunns
Why must something pleasurable (in most cases) need consequences....? Confused about it.
thoushaltnotpass
They would then struggle to explain what's wrong with sex outside marriage without involving imaginary concepts
sparky2212
NYTimes sucks, but this is an opinion piece.
neverpostsoriginalcontent
100 percent. Publications like the Times will often publish absurd opinion pieces because letting someone write out their absurd ideas leads to necessary clarity; an op-ed is not an endorsement of a view, and often the goal of publishing it is to make a mockery of it.
SisyphusRollin
I don't know to blame Manifest destiny, the church, the education system but holy shit man something went wrong a VERY long time ago in this culture and it turned so many "men" into just... feeble fucking children, no thats an insult to children. They're so fucking weak, so... I won't evey say insecure. Its absurd, its irrational its just so fucking strange. They're women. Calm down you fucking shitbirds.
Zyrixion
It's the church. It's *always* christianity. Literally nearly every evil in the western world for the last 500-1000 years is traceable whether directly or indirectly to christianity, and certainly every single horrible thing about the present state of our country.
scrumbles666
Except in all the places where Christianity isn't a dominant power and yet women's sexual agency is still denied. Imgur atheists like you are fucking cowards, desperately blaming all the worlds ills on Christianity to get out of having to fight systemic patriarchy and own up to your own role in a misogynistic culture. You aren't opposing religious authority. You are running from responsibility to combat other social ills.
Zyrixion
??? bruh I'm a lesbian, swing and a miss bud. Also I did specify "western" world, and most of the places in the west where it's not christianity, it's another flavor of abrahamic religion. *Also* guess why western cultures are nearly uniformly patriarchal (spoiler, it's the church). There's a fuckload of shit wrong today, and christianity rightfully gets the blame for how we got here, which is of critical importance in fixing things if we don't want to end up back here again.
scrumbles666
Almost every culture that is or has ever been is patriarchal. Abrahamic religions (a grouping created by white supremacists to make Christianity seem older) are not the source of misogyny. And it's the persistent refusal of society to recognize misogyny as a bad thing that needs to be stopped that got us here. Churches survive by affirming people's existing biases; less sexism lowers church attendance, but less Christianity does not lower misogyny. MRA's grew out of movement athiesm, after all.
thebonesofmyancestors
So, I know I'm butting in here, but your argument doesn't seem valid to me. What does the "western" world have anything to do with it? The "eastern" world isn't dominated by abrahamic religions and has the exact same flavor of patriarchy. That completely disproves your point. Religion is a tool and nothing more. Religion didn't create the patriarchy. It's merely a tool used to enforce it. When that doesn't work they simply find another form of fascism to enforce it.
SilentNemo
"Consequence-free sex". They're not even hiding that they're on the side of the forced birthers anymore.
nclu
I kinda imagine that these people hold that there is a terrible and cruel god. And that the suffering of others is reassuring evidence that their god is still present in this world.
rockmanx853000
Sounds like a Freudian slip that majority of people would like to enjoy sex and those who are so guilt ridden about it want to ruin it for others. Hmm…. HMM….
FelonyRaptor
They're working their way to "consent-free sex", aren't they?
The women of the GOP, they yearn for oppression and subjugation.
ps238principal
And note how the "consequences" only fall on one side of the sexual encounter, while the other is encouraged to have as much sex as they can with as many women as they can.
ExTechOp
The same mindset is expressed with the old shitty analogue of locks and keys.
https://www.tumblr.com/poly-bi-princess-heaven/45484620669/the-problem-with-the-lock-key-analogy
Cearnaigh
Is that still going around?
I first heard it decades ago from some MRMs and found it to be ludicrous bullshit then.
The pencil sharpener response to it you linked in another comment was new to me, though. Good one.
phovos
Can you post a non-Tumblr link? Every time I click on it, it removes the post and won't let me read it, even when logged in.
ExTechOp
Unfortunately, I have no idea why Tumblr does that for you, it doesn't for me — I have no account and use private browsing on Firefox.
It's not hard to find counter-arguments to the silly analogy, this one is from Reddit: "A pencil sharpener can whither away any pencil. A pencil that goes into many sharpeners will eventually be worthless. A sharpener doesn’t lose its value by consuming the pencil."
https://medium.com/@stephaniebontorin">24917747">https://medium.com/@stephaniebontorin/4a9d24917747 https://medium.com/@taniagraceforb/768ea76e182e
Sonicschilidogs
TBF All analogies break down at some level, like if you use a pencil sharpener enough, it gets dull and doesn't work as good. I think the bigger take away is that people should be able to act as they please without judgement, not trying to flip the script on an analogy.
phovos
I managed to copy and paste the post by stopping the page from loading and hiding the post. But yeah they're bad analogies all-round. Flat out hypocrisy that women are supposed to remain pure and virgin but men are supposed to sleep around.
BenjyX55
"Depressed people in general should behave as though Zoloft doesn't exist."
"ADHD people in general should behave as though Adderall doesn't exist"
"People without legs should behave in general as though wheelchairs don't exist."
Mack1986
... I have to ask. Who is this for. They dont believe in any of that either
sadurdaynight
People with jobs should act as if jobs don't currently exist...oh wait.. that's an actual concern right now, too
celestedrake
Yeah, it's ridiculous... Maybe men should just act like condoms don't exist and don't have sex. Also birth control pills can be used for other things than just sex. I'm asexual and use them for a hormone imbalance I have. Medicines can be used for multiple things.
slinkiisu
Men should just act like viagra doesn't exist. Don't have sex ever again.
Cearnaigh
If the only way they can enjoy sex is with a medically induced stiffy, they have my pity, for several reasons.
Their partners more so.
philmoregraves
As someone who has ADHD and only taking meds for the last year (it went undiagnosed for over 3 decades) the consequences are quite fucking dire. It appeared as depression, tried SSRIs and shit, almost killed myself a few times, checked myself into a looney bin. Adderall has helped me GREATLY, but supply chain issues have made it where I go without sometimes for weeks. Its hard to get work done, its more difficult to function. I have no withdrawal symptoms, its just that when you know what it >
philmoregraves
Feels like to function like a semi normal fucking human for the first time in almost 40 fucking years, not only does every day feel infinitely harder, but the depression comes back and is complicated by knowing "I COULD function better if my fucking brain would do the goddamn thing" but it wont. So that shit take opinion from NYT can be neatly folded and forcible shoved up their fucking ass. I'll stick my foot up there and wear em like a boot
FaeVikingPrincess
It's not even that it's "People with vaginas should not sleep around, but men can sleep around all they want." That's all it is. Men trying to keep women down.
discostewsm
"Billionaires in general should pay taxes as though tax breaks don't exist."
Gramsar
You could also abbreviated that as "billionaires in general should[...]n't exist"
discostewsm
I like this.
GwensBackOnHerBS
Women should behave like little virginal vessels to be taken by a man only in marriage.
IKnowWhatsInPandorasBox
Unless I'm feeling horney. Then you should behave like a slut but only with me.
StrokeFlavoured
Handmaidens tale. A series that keeps hitting to hard hard.
adamlstf9
Please Don’t Built the Torture Nexus.
NovemberAlphaMikeEcho
"too hard" or "to hard hard"?
CyberHexx
And if they get raped, we'll blame them and not the rapist. Because Patriarchy.
adamlstf9
Well, what was she wearing?
(/S, biiiig fuckin S.)
SlyMrFox
Bible literally says if she doesn't scream loud enough in protest it's not rape. And even then, it only talks about betrothed women. Fuck religion.
RemtonDulyak
But Jesus, who Christians claim to follow, said "fuck that shit, new covenant, new rules, love each other, boys and girls, and cut the ties with the past!"
Zealots love to nitpick, though, and decided parts of the old ways should still be valid...
SlyMrFox
Jesus literally said to follow the old law.