Dear Queenie,
Why does everybody always blame the man if a woman gets pregnant? It’s a man’s nature to have lots of women and they are always getting pregnant on purpose so they can keep a man. The stupid fools don’t understand that just because a man sleeps with them doesn’t mean he cares about what happens after.
What about when a woman says she’s on the pill and then, oh my, she’s pregnant because she “forgot” to take it? What if a man uses a condom, but it breaks, or the woman tears a hole in it with her fingernails “accidentally”?
Queenie, be fair!—Tomcat
Dear Tomcat,
I agree with you that a woman should take her share of the responsibility for making sure she doesn’t have any children she doesn’t want and/or can’t afford to raise. In this day and age, with all the contraceptive methods available, there is no excuse for either a man or a woman to make a baby if he or she doesn’t want to.
If a man doesn’t want to take responsibility for a child, it is up to him to make sure he doesn’t get a woman pregnant “by accident.” If he leaves it totally up to a woman who may be trying to “catch” him by having his baby, he is just as much a stupid fool as you say she is.
After all, it’s a dog’s nature to have fleas and to mark his territory by urinating on it. But a dog can learn to wear a flea collar and to not make messes in the house. Are you saying a man can’t rise above “his nature” at least as much as a house-trained dog?
