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[apocalypsos]

You know those lovely idiotic abstinence-only CDC guidelines? Well, go here to read comments about it that were posted through the CDC's comment page. And if you want to enter the fray, go here to send them your own opinions. (Much thanks to eiluned for the links.)

I submitted, although it's not up there yet, but it basically said that I am a twenty-six-year-old virgin and I could count the number of people I knew besides me whom abstinence worked for on one hand, then brought up that my brother went into sex well-educated and he knows better than not to use a condom, while the son of a family friend became a father at the age of fifteen. (Granted, he's turned out to be a really good father and a responsible kid, but still, fifteen. Gyah.)

I also threw in a reference to that metaquotes entry here, which as an escaped Catholic I adore with a fiery, loving passion.

EDIT: On an unrelated note, yesterday I was going to work and was counting all the women I saw wearing those mesh flipflops with the sequin flowers that everyone seems to be wearing, and I thought, "I don't think I'd go out and buy a pair of those." Then I got to work and Bosslady gave me a pair of new red ones that a customer gave her that were too small for her but fit me perfectly.

You know, I don't think I'd go out and buy an eighty-inch flatscreen TV and a state-of-the-art DVD player. *sits and wait for karma to kick in*

Aw, nuts. Maybe it only works on Friday the 13th.

Comments

[cleobourne.livejournal.com]

I think it only works if everyone else is getting them...hey! I want to work for your boss!

[seferin.livejournal.com]

he knows better than not to use a condom

Should that be he knows better than to not use a condom.

Perhaps this is me, but what is the point of the current rules? If we know that they do not work, and they know they do not work, is the point to make birth control a thing of the past? Or do they want disease to spread? What good comes of preventing these health measures? And what happens to women who need to birth control pills to regulate their hormones?

[fyrdrakken]

The pro-lifers sell themselves as being against baby-killing, which is a position it can become ethically tricky to argue with sometimes. But then you learn that so many pro-life organizations are also anti-birth control and some of those pharmacists hitting the news for refusing to sell morning-after pills won't sell birth control either, and the current surgeon general of the US in his own practice prescribed prayer as treatment for PMS and wouldn't provide contraception, and then you hear about hospitals getting court orders to go against pregnant women's wishes "for the good of the baby" (sometimes on the basis of medical opinions that turned out to be wrong), and of course there's the gag order on the CDC and the way federal money is denied to anyone preaching contraception to teenagers or providing abortions anywhere in the world, and a very ugly picture is starting to take shape...

There's a definite trend towards turning back the clock on feminism and reducing women's value to breeding machine again.

[umetnica.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing about the mesh flipflops when I saw everybody wearing them. And then my mom randomly brought me home a black pair and they're some of the most comfortable shoes I have.

[morriscat69.livejournal.com]

so... abastaining would be, described roughly as, saving yourself for dogmatic reasons until when you finally do something, its not fun?

yep, i think thats about right.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

Well, I think that Big Screen's aren't 3 pairs for $10.

But that's just me.

[gwen-louise.livejournal.com]

My god. Everyone's wearing them here in New Zealand too. I thought they were cool until half the school wore them to last mufti day. Maybe mesh flipflops are the new yoyos? Or Tamagotchis?