Not to be a commie slut but STI screenings should be free and easily accessible to everyone
They..are…literally, you can walk into any free clinic or planned parenthood and get an sti screen.
You might be able to get HIV testing done for free in most places but only some free clinics offer free full panel STI screening (And I mean full panel, often times I’ve seen clinics offer free HIV and Herpes testing and charge for everything else) and most times that’s only if you literally do not have any other option to pay. I live in Atlanta, a major metropolitan area notorious for HIV transmission and the closest clinic to me does not offer STI screening.
On top of that, there’s the second part of OP’s statement which is that it should be easily accessible. While Planned Parenthood does offer low or no cost screening going to the one Planned Parenthood health center within the city limits would take me at least the bulk of my day to get there on public transportation, and if that center weren’t available my next options would be in parts of the suburbs that our city transit does not service or going Birmingham Alabama. None of these options would be reasonable for someone working with a lower income and they’d be flat out inaccessible for someone living in a rural area, which typically have very few options for any kind of health care let alone reproductive or sexual health.
Like I really wish your reply was reflective of reality because that’s how it needs to be, but it isn’t, which is why the OP said that.
Edit: Planned Parenthood also doesn’t even accept all insurance types so even if you are insured you might have to pay anyway.
There are many parts of the world where access to religious space IS access to public space for women, where free movement within traditionally male-only sites of worship IS essentially free movement through society as a whole. That reality doesnt change just because you, personally, think religion is dumb.
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Emma Stone screaming “I’m sorry” during Sandra Oh’s monologue shows that at any given moment, without a hint of irony, White women will insert themselves into a woman of color’s spotlight. She HAD to say something, despite the years and years of silence on the issue, right then and there as a half laugh for…what? To turn the real issue of white washing into a joke? To reinsert herself into the conversation when her decisions hurt Asian actors like Sandra? It’s all liberal posturing disgusing white fragility because she most definitely felt embarrassed to be indirectly called out for her complicity in white washing.
Why else yell an apology after four years of her just never really addressing it? It’s white guilt taken to a literal extreme to pander to the audience for cheap woke laughs. “Look at her, she’s aware of the issues! And she’s sorry!!! XD total self own!” White women can’t bare to sit in their uncomfortability when they are confronted with their complicity and try to detract from it in any way possible. Sure, it’s just a throw away comment but really think about the ideology that fueled her need to say that in the first place, at the time she said it, and the reaction of her saying it from a most white crowd. By dismissing the comment as a jokey, self depreciating nod, we dismiss how white people can constantly do some self flaggration, usually publically, years after the damage has already been done. We see it over and over again.
Yes I know Sandra and Andy’s joint monologue was to supposed to be light hearted and fun, poking satirical fun at topics etc etc but it’s something to chew on. The whole interaction was brief (Emma’s comment wasn’t planned and she literally injected it into the monologue) but is pretty illuminating.
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