Laura, did you think it was a deliberate misunderstanding, or that he really just doesn't know?

I keep thinking he actually has no idea how birth control is used.

ETA, Liese. I was sending an email to a Laura and just had a brain burp, sorry!

So! Yesterday we bought beads at an upscale hippie shop ("No, we won't do it for you, but we will enable you to do it yourself!"), saw some stunning sculpture, ate green chile cheeseburgers, and chilled by the fire.

Today I bought a $400 down coat for $99, cried unexpectedly at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis, ate $7 Kobe sliders, saw Beauregard's post-impressionism at the New Mexico Museum of Art, ate Hamentaschen at the Haagen Dazs where the KGB plotted the assassination of Trotsky.

And it's just Tuesday!

Next up, knife-skills class. I put my Chicago cutlery in my knitting roll-up. Fear me.

I keep thinking he actually has no idea how birth control is used.

I can't quite believe that an adult in his position wouldn't know how the Pill is taken, but that doesn't mean anything. I'm a little more inclined to believe he was ranting and got carried away with his story and sort of lumped something like Plan B in with the Pill, which still isn't accurate, of course.

That said, attributing malicious misunderstanding to him is fine with me.

I keep thinking he actually has no idea how birth control is used.

No, you're probably right.

I just keep reading how he's been married four times and has zero children.

ate Hamentaschen at the Haagen Dazs where the KGB plotted the assassination of Trotsky.

The what now? Please elaborate.

Also, your vacation sounds wonderful.

Yeah, I dunno. After that dude who made the joke about holding an aspirin between the knees and a lot of people my age and younger didn't understand what that meant...I think they don't understand a lot of things about human anatomy.

Because a lot of people were like, "but you can totally do it from behind I don't even know wtf aspirin?"

That's reason #835 why I think the world is moving on without them. It's "The Internet Is a Series of Tubes" crowd. They also think women are a series of tubes. Seriously. No joke.

did you think it was a deliberate misunderstanding, or that he really just doesn't know?

I keep thinking he actually has no idea how birth control is used.

I suspect he actually does handwave away a lot of details because they're ladybusiness and why should he be bothered; but I also strongly feel that the whole "OMG SO MUCH BC" rant is calculated to play along with a lot of other rants about how profligate and spendy and therefore deeply irresponsible the enemy is, whether the enemy is welfare queens or the government not living within its monthly paycheck, or idunno, Greece. The trope is way more powerful than the details because its hits one of the core points that his ilk uses to frame things, only this time he managed to land on something that made people say "BZUH WHAT?" instead of nodding along with the emotional content while only half-listening to the details of what he said.

lulz, and then there were the whole bunches of asshats supporting him with the "BC only costs 4 bucks at Walmart!"

If your Walmart pharmacist isn't objecting due to being a wingnut, and you have health insurance, and you got with a prescription which can only be written after you've had a gyno exam.

So since you have insurance, and you're both paying into your insurance and receiving insurance coverage as PART OF YOUR COMPENSATION FROM YOUR EMPLOYER, what the fuck is the dif if you can now get it without a copay?

It's not "free."

You've paid for it. OMGWTFBBQ

I come here to preach to the choir FYI.

And the generic brand Walmart has happens to be one that works for you. (And, and, and...)