And whatever else you said - it honestly makes little sense. Are you suggesting that controlling our lives centers around the legalization of birth control (it was around long before it was legal in the US)
And being a feminist doesn't mean I got rid of my want of being in a relationship - I am married. So I don't follow what you meant by that.
And I don't think that using birth control on behalf of a man is going to make him 'less dependent' (or whatever you're trying to say) on women.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure he was essentially speaking more about freedom from pregnancy and parenthood, not from
women per say. Just reproductive choice and safeguard. This has already been accomplished for women, not just by the development and availability of better birth control, but also by the legalization of abortion. Women no longer need to be concerned about accidentally getting pregnant and becoming trapped in that pregnancy, having the rest of their lives completely altered with no say in the matter. Today, they can control (for the most part) when and if a pregnancy occurs through use of highly effective birth control, and in the case of accidental pregnancy, there is an avenue through which they can opt out of the life-altering responsibility it carries with it.
Men, on the other hand, have little or none of that same control. There is really only one method of birth control available to men (setting aside abstinence for obvious reasons), and that is the condom. The male condom in it's typical use has a failure rate of 15-18%. That's pretty significant, and significantly higher than birth control pills. That makes men somewhat dependent on their partners because we have to trust that
they are properly using
their birth control method(s) to increase our safety. This becomes even more of an issue for men within the confines of a committed relationship because usually
both partners wish to stop using such an obtrusive method when they are having sex exclusively with one another. That makes men
entirely dependent on their partner since there is no unobtrusive male contraceptive, like a pill. All he can do is trust her to take hers. And most importantly, in the event that an unwanted pregnancy
does take place, the man has no say whatsoever in what happens next. Men are not afforded an avenue of escape from that responsibility the way women are, so he is completely powerless in the matter. His entire future, or at least the next 20 years of his life, now lie in the hands of his female partner.
I'm pretty sure that's what the OP meant when he talked about dependence.
And to answer the OP, of course I'd support it, and I'd take it. Until I was ready to knock someone up, that is.