Baby formula company “science” has notoriously been anti-woman, anti-child. Much of the bogus pharmaceutical harms to women never become refuted or discussed in the press because of big pharma’s legal disclaimers (the fine print and rapid-speak now being used on TV to follow the glowing adverts about the drugs’ supposed benefits). Moreover, the US legal system has taken a global, multi-national corporate lead in shrouding the drug-company abuses in settlement confidentiality with court approval. I’ve worked behind the scenes (long past) under the shroud of confidentiality in mass-tort drug/RX cases. I have on good authority that it’s still going on; a neighbor works for a mass-tort law firm.

I wouldn’t willingly take a prescription drug if you gave it to me with red roses accompanying. Nobody talks much about the flesh-eating bacteria killing people in hospitals, but another friend is a RN who works in a hospital and it’s definitely going on — the multi-decade over-use of antibiotics prescribed by MDs wanting to seem like major deities has resulted in killer bacteria capable of rapid mutation to beat the docs’ drugs.

I’m well into my 50’s and haven’t let an allopathic physician get near my body for 20 years. And I’m the healthiest person my age I know. Gardasil be damned. And no offense intended, Jeremiad. I truly hope you have no ill effects of any vaccine or other drugs, and my hope is for you to have more information for the future. (Interesting name, Jeremiad; suggests you enjoy discourse of this type.)

It’s deeply difficult to face the huge extent to which we’re being lied to on a consistent basis by the “establishment,” and it took me many decades to be able to face it and find my own way with the supportive words of global sisters like Allecto.

I couldn’t accept the patriarchal watering down via man-made “faith” to trump the fear of facing what evils regularly operate under patriarchy, but eventually I found the Great Mother, Her Dark Cauldron, and made a feminist peace with Christianity (finding the Mother and the feminist Wisdom of Christ) as my faith tradition. Allecto’s writing has hugely helped to confirm the spiritual faith that carries me. How she’s become so staunch a women’s liberationist in young adulthood impresses me with great joy whenever I come to visit this blog.

Let me take this opportunity to thank you directly, Allecto, and all who come to converse here. May we be blessed.

Thank you, Allecto, and thank you, too, Jeremiad, for being the catalyst for discussion that may help more women everywhere to break freer of the patriarchal abuses to our minds, spirits and bodies.

I got the Gardasil vaccine last year, and I’m glad I did. I had no side effects. None. My bloodstream carries HPV antibodies now. It’s all groovy.

As a sexually active bisexual woman, a vaccine to protect me against HPV just made sense to me. It’s part of me being responsible for my own sexuality.

I disagree with some of what people are saying above (for example, regarding clincal drug testing or cell phones causing cancer) because I believe in science and I prefer to have substantiated evidence for my claims.

However, I do agree that the current advertising campaign for the vaccine reinforces compulsory heterosexuality and, honestly, makes women out to be “sluts.” If males were vaccinated too, the most virulent strains of HPV could conceivably be wiped out in a generation or two.

I cringe when I think someone may have vaccinated their daughters based on another’s uninformed decision. If you don’t know, don’t say.

In our local multi-plex, for awhile Gardasil was running the ad campaign, “One Less.” As in “One Less” woman to get cancer. But the tag line, repeated by woman after woman, was the point: “One Less.” It could hardly be clearer. Yet it’s so very difficult to face that our erasure, “One Less,” one by one, as independently thinking and creatively passionate beings is the goal of patriarchy. Particularly it’s hard to face because once you do see it, where do you go, what do you do in order to live and continue to love those like our daughters who have no place to go on this planet that’s really safe and free?

Patriarchy has made it virtually impossible for us to live collectively on lands free of its taxes, rules, harassment, sanctions. This dilemma is why I keep reaching for a spiritual consensus among women’s liberationists to invoke the Great Mother, She Who Works in the Dark Cauldron of Dying and Living, to bring about whatever needs to happen so that those of us who do love, can love, and live here on Her planet.