Not sure whether to put this in GD or Cafe Society.
This is a site sponsored by Planned Parenthood that presents a series of short educational videos. Here’s a description by someone who… doesn’t like it:
I read this, thinking “no way” and then went to the site and… yes way. It is much as described in the quotation above.
But the thing the quoted description misses is, the skits are hilarious. They’re all fairly clever parodies of high-schoolish sex-ed skits, with a good dose of absurdism and lighthearted crudity thrown in.
At first I thought it read too much like a parody of sex education videos for the message to come through in any constuctive fashion. But after thinking about it, I’ve decided that to get the joke, one must presuppose that all the “cheesy” advice presented is in fact good advice. For the skits present ignorance of this kind of advice as in itself absurd–so absurd it’s funny.
So I think these are good videos, yes, to show to kids even.
But it’s debatable.
(Not sure what the point of the “down there” song is supposed to be though… It’s the most crude-for-crudity’s-sake of all the segments and I don’t really think it works.)
The quote in the Op was from a press release by the Family Research Council. I like what this article from Salon.com had to say about the reaction:
Personally, I think the FRC is well down the road the road to self-parody (as Salon makes clear). What “research” does it actually do, anyway? AFAIK, it has always been solely about criticizing organizations that are trying to attack real problems, without offering any solutions of its own.
This is amazing, I think they just made the first good Sex Ed vids ever (I also learned something, I did not know you were supposed to wear condoms with oral sex. Not that it matters to me considering I’m cosmically incapable of relationships, but good to know either way).
They sit around all day, surfing the internet, downloading porn, listening to CD’s, playing video games, watching a lot of TV, maybe playing some D&D - and then they complain about everything. They’re like cranky slackers.
It is much as described in the quotation above.
