Brian Tamaki & his cronies have been pushing the "Condoms are not 100% effective, therefore they are next to useless" line to try and bolster their "No Sex Please, We're Teenagers" pledge drive. The logic reminds me of these statements:
"If you're in a car accident and wearing a seatbelt you might still die, so why bother wearing seatbelts? And plenty of sober people have car accidents, so why not drive drunk?"
It sounds like I am being fatuous, but I have heard people make these arguments in all seriousness. Middle-aged people with nice houses and good jobs.
This has nothing to do with making a logical argument, and everything to do with trying to twist the facts to try and fit what you've already decided.
The people who made those statements about seatbelts & drinking want to be able to drive home after having a few beers, and they don't like wearing seatbelts. The people who make those statements about condoms want other people to conform to their ideas of right or wrong. Any salient facts or statistics are then re-parsed to fit what they already want to do.
Noone reading this is likely to be fooled by any of these schmucks. But I wanted to point out that Tamaki is being as irresponsible here as the middle-aged fucknobs who convince their kids that wearing a seatbelt won't save them in a car accident.
Posted by pearce at May 19, 2005 11:13 AMI've been meaning to post about the cretinism of their slogan "Self Control, Not Birth Control" for a couple of weeks. Maybe this will spur me on.
Posted by: davidr at May 19, 2005 12:20 PMWhat more comment about such 'pledges' is needed, after that recent study which revealed that teenagers who take such celibacy pledges are more likely to engage in oral or anal sex than teenagers who took no such vows.
Posted by: Scott A at May 20, 2005 8:57 AMThe fact that denial of sexuality is just plain retarded aside.
The selt belt thing is crazy. I get ina car, I put on my seat belt, I turn on the key and I drive. I usually don't start the car untill all passengers are settled and belted in.
Many middle-aged and older people I have driven with get in the car, start the engine, back out, start driving and then in the process of changing from 1st to 2nd or 2nd to 3rd start putting on their seat belt. What the fuck is up with that? Talk about distractions that could cause an accident.
Posted by: jarratt at May 20, 2005 11:04 AM