Upworthy created an infographic on the cost of “owning a vagina.” Of course, the data for this infographic came from a Jezebel post, so you know the data is likely to be total bullshit. Any clickbait rag owned by Gawker (may it rest in pieces) needs to be taken with a very large grain of salt.

I didn’t take the time to look at every part of this infographic, but some things stand out as being utterly wrong. Let’s start with the most glaring problem with this infographic - the cost of birth control.

First of all, Jezebel’s own post admits that not all women use birth control in any given year and most don’t use it every year of their lives. “ Studies show that oral contraceptives have been used by about 80 percent of women in the U.S. at some point in their lives.” According to the Guttmacher Institute, 68% of women are currently using birth control. So it’s bad statistics to attribute the cost of a year’s worth of birth control as the cost of owning a vagina without at least factoring for the rate of use (although one could argue the true cost of birth control as to “owning a vagina” is $0, since it’s a choice to begin with).

Now let’s look at the second problem with this statistic - the numbers seem to be totally made up. Even Planned Parenthood puts the true cost of an annual supply of birth control at $20–$50 per month or $120-$600 a year. A far cry from the $1689 the infographic claims. Of course, women can now get free birth control under the ACA without paying higher premiums, so this whole statistic applies to the tiny percentage of women that are uninsured anyways.

The cost of razors is also a bit nonsensical. The infographic claims that women pay $191 a year on shaving products. What this doesn’t factor for is the cost of men’s shaving products. Men pay nearly three times as much on razors, so it’s hard to see how women paying $191 a year is the cost of “owning a vagina.”

Then there is the last point that I will address - the cost of an emergency contraception. The estimated cost of an emergency contraception is $35-60, so the $50 estimate of Jezebel’s is reasonable.

However, including it as an annual cost of “owning a vagina” is just blatantly dishonest. According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, only 11% of women of childbearing age (15-44) have used the morning after pill “at least once.” Once, mind you. Not every goddamn year. If you have to use emergency contraception once every single year, then you are doing something very wrong. In fact, you probably aren’t paying for birth control like the infographic estimates, so including both means the author is double-dipping to inflate their propaganda driven stats.

It’s easy to see why more people don’t take feminism seriously these days. It just makes shit up to drive an agenda.