Posted on 02/18/2024 6:21:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Tesla CEO Elon Musk criticized hormonal birth control and was met with stories from women about their personal experiences on the pill.
"Hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression & triples risk of suicide. This is the clear scientific consensus, but very few people seem to know it," Musk wrote Friday on X, formerly Twitter, citing a 2017 news article from Time about studies on hormonal birth control.
The Time article discussed how an American Journal of Psychiatry study indicated women who take hormonal contraceptives have a three times higher risk of suicide than those who never took hormonal birth control. Another study in the article found that women on hormonal birth control have a 70% higher risk of depression. The article did not mention weight gain.
"I was placed on the pill at just 14 years old for acne. A few months later, I saw my first-ever therapist despite no prior history of depression," Babylon Bee contributor Ashley St. Clair said in response to Musk's post. "In retrospect, after being on birth control for nearly a decade, being placed on the pill for 'acne' was akin to killing a mouse with a rocket launcher."
Tammy Peterson, wife of psychologist Jordan Peterson, said: "I suffered from depression from the hormonal birth control. Elon is absolutely correct."
Others voiced their opposition to Musk's remarks.
Brianna Wu, executive director of the progressive Rebellion PAC, said: "The right wing is coming for your birth control."
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Says the man with 11 children by three different mothers
And that makes his opinion on procreation invalid?
At least he walks the walk, and f###s the f###
For being so holier-than-thou, you sure have a foul mouth.
Sometimes Elon Musk is way out there. This is one of those times.
You have to admire Elon Musk’s lack of filters, bless his heart.
Jacob had 12 sons by four women….
I’m not excusing, just talking.
PS Elon’s comments don’t change the facts of the matter.
Do you have evidence that what he said is not true?
FTFA: "The Time article discussed how an American Journal of Psychiatry study indicated women who take hormonal contraceptives have a three times higher risk of suicide than those who never took hormonal birth control."
A double f-bomb and a Bible verse tagline…..
How Hegelian.
I take it that you believe contraception is more important than the fact that women who take it have a higher suicide and depression rate?
A small price to pay?
Contraception and abortion are self-inflicted genocide.
I don’t know why you would think that, based only on my observation about his communication style.
I have ten children. I think contraceptives are misogynist. There’s nothing wrong with women’s bodies in their natural state of health. Men think that the fact that sex makes babies is bad and needs to be “fixed,” because men never have babies.
Elon Musk doesn't, so your generalization falls apart instantly.
Are we women supposed to be brood mares until we keel over or be celibate while our husbands seek solace elsewhere?
Practising what he preaches, no?
There are several ways of seeing his mating strategy as admirable.
- from the pov of increasing the population, which is suffering from a dearth of native births;
- from the pov of human breeding, in terms of raising the quality of the population. This is a man whose bloodline we want carried on. And he chooses exceptional (if sometimes eccentric) women to do it with.
And he is also of course a sinner, but heck, making babies is far from the worst sin.
Oh, I don’t know. Elon Musk is a complete kookydoodle. He might say the totally opposite thing tomorrow.
Brood mares.
If one sees humanity as whole as your primary concern, or such a subset of it that represents your community.
The alternative requires an individualist pov. That is generally a wrong take in Christian ethics.
So you’re fine with women on the pill having a suicide rate three times great than women who aren’t and a much higher rate of depression?
There are non-chemical ways to not get pregnant.
It’s why I need a savior.
Humorless people love to point fingers...
Anybody who uses an infantile word like “kookydoodle” is a complte kookydoodle.
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