[Rant] Afraid of getting on birth control because it makes you fat? Welp, better to be pregnant I guess I'm so sick and tired of seeing this posted on r/sex and r/relationships. A guy will want to know how to convince his girlfriend to get on some type of birth control (BC) so they can have protected sex without worrying about condom failure. Cue a bunch of angry womenzes crying oppreshun at the hands of the evil evil menzes. Don't they understand that every birth control acts differently on these blessed creatures we call women? Some ( and they mean all) women get obese! Obese! On BC so how dare he try to open up the idea of safe sex practices! He should be ashamed of himself!  "I gained 100 pounds on BC! I barely eat anything and this fat manifested from the <1g pill I took! It's the devil's creation! " You fucking twats. They are so afraid of getting fat that they would rather risk pregnancy. BC can account for maybe 5-10lbs of water weight (that's being generous). You wanna know a surefire way to gain weight? Getting pregnant.  I'm so annoyed by this commonly spread myth that BC leads to stupid amounts of weight gain. I'm fed up with perpetuating this myth and allowing young women to risk pregnancy because they're afraid of a stupid myth. I'm on hormonal BC, I know it affects people differently. But I also didn't gain a pound on it. I was afraid of gaining weight too, so what did I do? I watched what I fucking ate.  If you're really concerned about gaining weight on medication, you watch what you fucking eat, dumbass. Don't eat more than you used to, and yes, that includes the starbeetus drinks you have. Why the everlasting fuck would you accept your fate without at least trying to find a solution? Yes, BC can make you gain weight because it can increase your appetite. Personally, I haven't had any issues with it but I am not ignorant to the fact that it can affect everyone differently. It's just stupid to believe that "different" is synonymous with "negative." We rarely hear the stories of good experiences with BC and that's why we have so many unplanned pregnancies. All these ignorant fuck faces piss me off and the fact that the crusaders of this myth are fat fucks just makes me more angry. Not all of us are like you, you beasts of burden.