DELANO, Calif. (AP) — “That ‘70s Show” actor Danny Masterson has been sent to a California state prison to serve his sentence for two rape convictions.
Authorities said Wednesday that the 47-year-old Masterson has been admitted to North Kern State Prison, and they released his first prison mug shot. The photo shows him wearing orange prison attire, with long hair and a beard.
2 or 1% is a huge number when we are talking about hundreds of millions of people are you daft
An extra .5% is hundreds of thousands of people.
And the numbers are US only. There’s other countries that have this type of medication available.
Statistically, no it’s not. Sure, it covers a large number of individuals, but it covers so little of the total population that it’s pretty insignificant. There are side effects that occur more frequently with these drugs, and we don’t care much about them either cos they are so low. I mean, yeah treat those who do get side effects bu the STATISTICAL likelihood of that happening is so low, they aren’t gonna pull the drug from the shelves. And I didn’t say that none of the population who takes these drugs suffer mental side effects. I said most of them don’t. And given the best counter argument I’ve been given is “2% of them do”, well, I’m gonna stand by my original assertion. Also, your maths is way off. If 2% of the population is a little under half a million (and I haven’t checked the other person’s maths, but I skimmed it and it seemed fine so I have no reason to distrust it), then 0.5% of the population is not “hundreds of thousands of people”. At most, it’s a bit over 125k people…
And let’s get back to why I said this. It’s about chemical castration of convicted criminals (whether they are actually guilty is kinda immaterial, they’re convicted and the point of doing this is so we don’t kill them if they are actually innocent and can later prove it). When the fuck did we suddenly care that 2% of them might get depressed?! I guarantee being in prison raises their risk of depression by way more than 2%… I mean, I bet none of you expected that you were teeing off on a pathologist who can point out why you’re wrong, but Jesus, how was this ever an issue? Like I said, 100% reversible (from a quick read of two papers, contraceptive depression gwnerally resolves upon cessation) and 100% preferable to executing an innocent person. Fuck me. You people are insane…
I’m not talking about punitive sterilization or the death penalty. I am talking about the economic burden of depression which is apparently quite a bit.
If it’s so low, should the drug manufacturers make up this value and compensate these women? Or is it too much?
Women should have access to safe and effective birth control, without gambling on burdening themselves. Having bodily autonomy is a part of equal rights, and this attitude that the current solutions are ‘safe enough it’s fine’ is misogynistic.
Yeah, but I’m not. I was talking about how using hormones might be okay in this one instance. I couldn’t give two shits about hormonal contraception and it’s consequences for women at this time as it’s completely irrelevant to my point. I will say this much though, one, your second paragraph is so poorly worded it makes literally no sense. And two, you aren’t as smart as you think you are if you think this is what makes the medical system mysognistic. The whole thing is set up to favour white men. This is a tiny drop in the bucket as to how fucked the whole system is. Cos an incredibly low number of women, statistically, getting depressed when using one form of medication is nothing compared to how many of them die of easily treated heart conditions, as just one example.
Can we get back to the point now? The one that chemical castration is maybe okay as a punishment cos it’s reversible?
