Sexist Contraception?

What's up with contraception?

Recently a male friend of mine said that his girlfriend wanted to discuss their options for birth control. The options included the pill, NuvaRing, the patch, shots of progesterone, and many others. My question is why are the only options for preventing pregnancy solely reliant on women? When a couple gets pregnant, many times the reaction is it's the woman's fault for missing her pill or using her contraception incorrectly. I cannot help but read into this as a sexist matter. Where does the male's responsibility lie?

Sex is a two-way street, people, as is pregnancy, although our society doesn't think that way. No, our society would rather place the blame of children conceived through rape, unprotected sex, and misused contraception by women. Our society, who's medical system is designed, managed, and funded by men, forces women to pop pills, shoot up, or stick awkward pieces of plastic up their vaginas, all of which drastically affects their hormones, changing their body shape, mood, and overall health. The unbalance doesn't stop at conception, but I'll leave the conversation of nonexistent birth rights for another post.

Don't get me wrong, men play a role also. Men are in charge of...wait for it...getting the condom on. Wow. Impressive. And they can't even handle that all the time.

What is UP with this logic? You'd think that after millenniums of advances in medicine, most of which has taken place in the past 50 years, someone SOMEWHERE would come up with a simple pill or procedure that could temporarily disable the life in sperm or some similar effect. You can choose between about 20 types of medicine that keep a guy hard for hours, but for some reason I don't think that is going to solve our overpopulation problem.

No, I believe that until we have shared responsibilities in contraception, our society will always be at fault. The blame does not lie in any one sex or in improper use of birth control. The blame lies in the disregard for responsibility.

What could be a better birth control than DOUBLE protection? Well, I suppose abstinence, but where's the fun in that?