Oh, 'luci. Sometimes I just want to take you home and keep you in a box underneath my bed. I promise you’ll live in the lap of luxury, freshly hung lettuce every day.
So, none of those “stay the fuck away from me or I’ll have you arrested!” thingys?
And while we’re about it, what the hell is “abstinence education”, anyway? What do they do, show the kids some random porn clips for about forty minutes or so, then say “You see all of that? Well, don’t do any of that till we tell you its ok.” Really, how much information is there to be delivered?
Now, if they give the kids the actual facts about what they got, what it does, and what goes where, I think I could shrug off the “abstinence” stuff. Tell the kids the truth, and I really don’t much care if you throw in an “abstinence” commercial at the end of it.
It is said that love laughs at locksmiths. I doubt lecturers fare any better.
This sorta reminds me… when I was in high school in California, they had what were called Independent Learning Centers. They were high schools for kids who couldn’t attend regular full-time high school. A typical student there would be a teen parent who now had to actually work for a living - without even a high school diploma. They had day care right on school grounds.
Part of that I’m sure was to give teen parents a place where they could feel comfortable even going to school, but I always thought it would be a good idea to have day care at all high schools, so all the kids can see how glamorous being a teen parent is.
Do high schools do that these days? I don’t know.
It promotes abstinence as the only unquestionable mode of protecting oneself from STIs and unwanted pregnancy. Which is, of course, true – barring sexual assault, you’re not going to get or give an STI or make a baby if you’re not having sex.
The problem is that the curricula promoting this ideal do so with tactics that are laden with shaming, and present a notion that sex is inherently damaging, especially for women. For example, a white rose is passed around the room from boy to boy and every boy is told to rub the petals. By the time it gets to the last boy, it is of course damaged and beginning to wilt, perhaps lost a petal, looks awful. Then it’s held up, and used as an object lesson of what happens when you “sleep around.”
There are also outright untruths in many curricula, like the concept that condoms have “pores” through which HIV can pass, ignoring that HIV is an intracellular virus, not floating free in semen in sufficient quantities, even if it were to pass through the .0000005 micron pores in a double-dipped latex condom. Are condoms 100% effective in preventing HIV transmission 100% of the time without fail worldwide? Probably not. Are they so faulty that they cannot be trusted ever? Hell no.
Abstinence-only curricula are also devastatingly heterocentric, either ignoring other sexualities outright or worse.
I have no problem with teaching what abstinence is truthfully. I have no problem with promoting abstinence as a thoughtful choice amongst several thoughtful choices of sexual conduct. I do have a major problem with upholstering abstinence education with lies, half-truths and shame-based rhetoric. If concepts can’t stand on their own without that kind of slanted embellishment, then they don’t belong in a place of education.
I went to a Planned Parenthood years ago for an annual exam. I made very little money then, but actually topped out their sliding scale. It was then I realized how poor the population they were serving really was, and how necessary they were for the health and safety of women in particular.
By the way, I was married at the time. It was the first marriage for both of us and we got married by a minister so it was all moral and EVERYTHING.
Did they force you to have an abortion? That is what they do according to the Right wingers.
Well, I don’t like to complain, but they didn’t.
I feel like I got ripped off.
I am sure Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and Anne Coulter are all motivated by the desire to create for themselves legions of female sex slaves. They’re all double-secret lesbians.
Well, not Coulter; she’s too brittle for sex. Probably she either eats her victims alive or bathes in their blood.
Damn that PP! I’d demand my money back!
Back to why GOP members visit prostitutes in such higher numbers than Democrats:
There’s this. And then there’s this.
Any questions?
Why does the president have an electric palm tree? That seems a bit energy extravagant, if you ask me.
I don’t know. Good question. But really, is it harmful to women?
Seeriously, if I had to guess with a gun to my head - because conservative women won’t give head.
Or do so grudgingly with no enthusiasm, all the while thinking about how much she can get out of him later.
No; but that doesn’t keep them from wanting to stomp on other women. Especially since one of the hallmarks of the Right is that the oppressive rules they push only apply to other people.
The answer to the question posed in the OP is apparently seniors.
Then again we have the spectacle of Obama the god damned wimp who won’t stand up against the Reps. Sometimes I don’t know which party to get mad at first.
<Mr. Burns> Excellent! Smithers, prepare another swimming pool for next year’s money!</MB>
How stupid are the people that vote for these clowns? Or does fear really work that well?
We don’t know what Obama’s response to that budget proposal is, because it hasn’t been debated yet. At least give him a chance to respond before you jump to conclusions.
sigh Man, why do you still bother ? We’ve all been down that road before. He’s already been told all this, repeatedly. He’s already been shown links to statistics (which he probably never followed). He’s already been proven just how fallacious his “recollection” was.
And yet he still touts around this “you young whippersnappers, when I was your age wimmin kept their legs firmly shut and whatnot” attitude. It’s unavoidable - when bodies reach his age, they become deficient. As Sherlock Holmes noted, unless exercized the flexible gray matter becomes callous and rigid. Old habits and convictions become immutable “truths”.
And I, for one, believe that you are cruel to constantly try to confront this poor old man with the facts and actual truth. He’s got Alzheimer’s for chrissake. Every time you shove teen pregnancy rates in his face he has to re-learn once again that the 50s were absolute, misogynistic shite. Every time he has to bear that disillusion all over again, until he forgets. And then it’s back to shoving it back down his throat.
You’re a sadistic basterd, Der Trihs, and that’s all there is to it.