A Rant About D!cks Who Want to Control Uteri

The thought occurred to me that, if you want to govern, you have to govern the people you have, not the people you want.

That means that, if you want to be president today, you have to realize that you will be president of a nation in which people have sex and have sex for a million different reasons. That means, they want to have access to a wide range of birth control methods in order not to have children. This includes both women AND men. Otherwise, you will be governing a nation in which your entire population lives in abject an ongoing poverty in attempting to raise children spaced two years apart for the entirety of their mother's fertile years; or, you will be governing a nation in which sex is a privilege of the wealthy.

You will also govern in a world in which approximately half of the people live in women's bodies, which means that they will want affordable -- and equitable -- care for the specifics of those bodies, like boobs and uteri and ovaries and hormones. These are not "preexisting conditions" for which coverage can be denied. They are part of the world as it is.

You will govern in a world in which disease exists and some diseases are transmitted by that sex that the people you govern are having. That means that they will want to have protection from those diseases.
You will govern in a world in which people fall in love, in which people want to enter into legally sanctioned and protected partnerships.

You will govern in a world in which your job, as one of the governors, is to ensure that one group does not exploit or abuse another group. Therefore, your job will be to ensure that all of the people whom you govern have access -- and "access" assumes "affordable" -- public services. Public service, by the way, are "public" because they ensure the types of services that protect the whole by protecting the individual.

Because, you see, sex, marriage, health care -- the realities of life - are not independent choices. These things affect everyone, whether they are gay or straight, male of female, children or adults, celibate or polyamorous or married, religious or atheist. This isn't about religion or "big government" (and, by the way, when you live in a nation the size of the U.S., the government is by necessity "big"). This is about human beings, begin human, living in the same space, using the same resources, having to negotiate around one another in the reality of their existence, and, like the butterfly effect, affecting one another whether they can control or are even aware of the consequences or not. If you want to govern them -- govern, not dominate or dictate or control -- then you have to accept this as reality and not  try to force your fantasy utopia on them.

So, quit worrying about what people are doing with their sex organs and help them get what they need in THIS world, under THESE conditions. If this is too distasteful to you, then find another line of work, because you don't have the sand for government.