My first thought was, why are there never overweight people having sex on TV or in commercials. Obesity/Diabetes is a far, far greater threat to women under 30 than HIV is. An Hispanic woman born today has a 50% lifetime risk of developing diabetes…a car with two fat people going at it would probably scare me from eating ever again.

This commercial might make a very strong point about condom use, but it does so by providing an image of post-coital M-on-F violence that is unacceptable no matter how well it “represents” a woman’s risk of contracting HIV.

Plus, this ad is embracing an outdated metaphor for HIV, the 1985 notion that HIV/AIDS is an immediate death sentence. With today’s standard of care, AIDS is not a death sentence like owning a handgun is.

Lastly, the emphasis on the increasing incidence of HIV in heterosexual women is alarmist. There were 7,000 new cases of HIV in heterosexual women in the US in 2006, 16,000 new cases of HIV in men who have sex with men.

Condoms are important, but we don’t have to resort to harshly shocking comics to promote them. Trojan ads with men as pigs in a bar are a much more reasonable approach. Let’s save the big guns for another date.

cybernetic organism phobics beware!

My initial reaction is that presumption of nefarious activity is racist, given the lack of context. But then I realized that a white man at a car window with cash would be equally suspicious.

my father always taught me, when there’s an elephant in the room, it’s only proper to introduce him

Social Design is progressive. It is the result of forward thinking and the physical manifestation of the ideal that social change is possible. Everyone with a home makes choices about its contents. These choices represent one’s values. Having the option to elect for social change rather than tradition is Social Design’s goal, which enables us to embark on social change right in our own backyard.

this post is not GOOD at all. it’s exploitative and tasteless.

thank mc, that’s a great find. forwarded that to everyone i know.

this doesn’t even look like the mona lisa! only the angle of the portrait is at all recognizable. That video isn’t GOOD, it’s LAME.

as political as killer whales can be, does this post deserve the “politics” category?

Having just completed a nutrition class at the world’s leading institute for the scientific study of nutrition, I officially refute this claim. And guess what, just like Jim Rutz I am not going to cite any primary literature. The only thing proven to make you ‘gay’ is conservative propoganda that distorts evidence and relies on spurious correlation.

My first thought was, why are there never overweight people having sex on TV or in commercials. Obesity/Diabetes is a far, far greater threat to women under 30 than HIV is. An Hispanic woman born today has a 50% lifetime risk of developing diabetes…a car with two fat people going at it would probably scare me from eating ever again.

This commercial might make a very strong point about condom use, but it does so by providing an image of post-coital M-on-F violence that is unacceptable no matter how well it “represents” a woman’s risk of contracting HIV.

Plus, this ad is embracing an outdated metaphor for HIV, the 1985 notion that HIV/AIDS is an immediate death sentence. With today’s standard of care, AIDS is not a death sentence like owning a handgun is.

Lastly, the emphasis on the increasing incidence of HIV in heterosexual women is alarmist. There were 7,000 new cases of HIV in heterosexual women in the US in 2006, 16,000 new cases of HIV in men who have sex with men.

Condoms are important, but we don’t have to resort to harshly shocking comics to promote them. Trojan ads with men as pigs in a bar are a much more reasonable approach. Let’s save the big guns for another date.

cybernetic organism phobics beware!

My initial reaction is that presumption of nefarious activity is racist, given the lack of context. But then I realized that a white man at a car window with cash would be equally suspicious.

my father always taught me, when there’s an elephant in the room, it’s only proper to introduce him

Social Design is progressive. It is the result of forward thinking and the physical manifestation of the ideal that social change is possible. Everyone with a home makes choices about its contents. These choices represent one’s values. Having the option to elect for social change rather than tradition is Social Design’s goal, which enables us to embark on social change right in our own backyard.

this post is not GOOD at all. it’s exploitative and tasteless.

thank mc, that’s a great find. forwarded that to everyone i know.

this doesn’t even look like the mona lisa! only the angle of the portrait is at all recognizable. That video isn’t GOOD, it’s LAME.

as political as killer whales can be, does this post deserve the “politics” category?

Having just completed a nutrition class at the world’s leading institute for the scientific study of nutrition, I officially refute this claim. And guess what, just like Jim Rutz I am not going to cite any primary literature. The only thing proven to make you ‘gay’ is conservative propoganda that distorts evidence and relies on spurious correlation.