"Girls Shouldn't Have Ideas" (Abstinence-Only Lesson #2)

[DeSwiss]

Run time: 02:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmwJvgKTTjw   Posted on YouTube: December 07, 2010 By YouTube Member: AmplifyYourVoice Views on YouTube: 35766   Posted on DU: January 17, 2011 By DU Member: DeSwiss Views on DU: 789

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/AmplifyYourVoice">AmplifyYourVoice - Did you know that taxpayer-funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs teach girls that having ideas will scare all the boys away? This video shows an actual lesson from the abstinence-only-until-marriage program "Choosing the Best." Click here to take action: http://bit.ly/c3chF5

The United States has spent over $1.5 billion on abstinence-only-until-marriage lessons like these. It's time to stop wasting tax dollars on these failed programs once and for all.

- Any man who dislikes dragon-knowledgeable women is a wimp in my book.....

[bengalherder]

1. K&R

[felix_numinous]

2. So it's not about saving a fetus

it's about repressing women, raising servants, more slaves. They want America to be a 3rd world country.

[regnaD kciN]

4. You've got "right-to-life" and "abstinence-only" programs mixed up...

The RoLers want to save "unborn children." The AOers don't really deal with abortion issues, but instead want to "raise the moral character" of the country by stopping teen sex, period. In these days where contraception can be procured at any drug or grocery store, the "if you don't 'save yourself', you might get pregnant!" argument doesn't hold much water -- instead, their goal is to convince young people that "premarital sex is bad for you," even if you can be reasonably certain of not getting pregnant from it. (From what I can tell, their scare-tactics revolve far more around STDs than pregnancy.)

It doesn't make their arguments any less ridiculous (as that video makes hysterically clear), but they're ridiculous from a different direction.

[texshelters]

3. These cartoons by aplifyyourvoice are them best, highly recommended and

states with abstinence only sex education have the highest rate of teen pregnancy.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/10/21/more-abstinence-only-leads-more-teen-pregnancies

http://lezgetreal.com/2010/10/us-teen-birth-rates-highest-in-abstenence-only-states/

Go figure. So if you want more babies, promote abstinence and don't teach about con...er, dragon slaying.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. little rubber thingies on John Thomas

as the Monty Python bunch would say.

[CBHagman]

6. The Waxman report and the National Women's Health Network

I went hunting around the Internets for references to Choosing the Best, the program referred to in the video, and found this at the website of the National Women's Health Network. Note the date!

http://nwhn.org/waxman-report-reveals-flaws-abstinence-only-education

Women’s Health Activist Newsletter
March/April 2005
By William Smith

Something remarkable happened on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2004: Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) issued a report on federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in his role as Ranking Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform. For the first time in the nearly 25 years that the federal government has funded these ideologically based programs, they became a matter of national discussion. All of the major news channels covered the report and its findings.


(SNIP)

In addition to providing inaccurate medical information, several curricula blatantly promote negative gender stereotypes. They often show young women as weak and needing of protection from male sexuality, while describing young men as victims of their overwhelming sexual drives.

From there it gets into the dragon business. ;-)