Saturday, September 8, 2007

HEY GOV'T, STAY OUT OF MY BED!

I just saw a commercial on TV put out by our Government with the message for parents to tell their kids to wait until they are MARRIED to have sex. I am blown away.

I'm all for kids waiting until they're out of High School to have sex but how freaking antiquated is it to tell them to wait until they're married. They should add into the commercial the side note that if they actually wait that long they probably won't ever have sex-- Unless they're Mormon in that case they'll be having tons of sex.

But that's not even the point, MY point is how dare our government put out commercials like that. "Wait until marriage". How about .. use a condom or go on birth control or just don't sleep around. Those would be words of wisdom. I honestly believe that every year that passes it's harder and harder for kids to wait to have sex, and probably for multiple reasons: 1) it's more acceptable as time passes 2) there's more sex in the media 3) all the hormones we get from food is making kids develop sooner and sooner

Just so you all know, this commercial upset me so much that I actually paused my Warcraft II game to post about this. We need to do something about the government sharing a bed with us, they want us to wait until marriage to have sex and never have an abortion and they don't want women to be protected against cervical cancer (they're reasoning is that it will encourage young women to go out and do every man in their line of sight).

Sigh

1 comment:

tpeterson said...

I totally understand where you are coming from. I remember watching that there was this video back in the 60s or something that showed this cute little girl picking of the petals of a daisy and counting to ten. It seemed like a nice little advertisment until she got vaporized by a nuclear explosion. Turns out it was an ad for a presedential campaign but I think the point stands on two ideas. One, the government should not preach how people live their lives and should not instill fear in order to promote their agenda. Second, the government is even worse than Hollywood at coming up with entertaining ideas.