Thursday, December 02, 2004
Your Tax Dollars at Work
CNN cites Rep. Henry Waxman's new report (pdf) detailing how federally funded education programs that teach abstinence (a favorite of the Radical Republicans in Congress and the White House) contain factual errors and such enlightened states like this from the the Why KNOw program, "Women gauge their happiness and judge their success by their relationships. Men's happiness and success hinge on their accomplishments."
Telling young women and girls that their only hope for happiness in life is based on the success of their relationships seems to be a sure fire way to ensure unprotected, dangerous, coercive, and degrading sexual activity and ensuring that these same young women and girls will be more likely to enter into and stay in emotionally and physically abusive relationships. And subjecting young men and boys to such messages is a sure fire way to ensure that they see relationships with women (or anyone for that matter) as trivial and thus become more likely to abuse and hurt their partners. I just hope the Radical Republicans plan on increasing funding for rape centers and women's shelters.
If recent precedent is any guide, ads made by NOW or the Girl Scouts suggesting that gender equality is a good thing or focusing on the "accomplishments" of women wouldn't be run by CBS and UPN on the grounds that said ads are too controversial.
CNN cites Rep. Henry Waxman's new report (pdf) detailing how federally funded education programs that teach abstinence (a favorite of the Radical Republicans in Congress and the White House) contain factual errors and such enlightened states like this from the the Why KNOw program, "Women gauge their happiness and judge their success by their relationships. Men's happiness and success hinge on their accomplishments."
Telling young women and girls that their only hope for happiness in life is based on the success of their relationships seems to be a sure fire way to ensure unprotected, dangerous, coercive, and degrading sexual activity and ensuring that these same young women and girls will be more likely to enter into and stay in emotionally and physically abusive relationships. And subjecting young men and boys to such messages is a sure fire way to ensure that they see relationships with women (or anyone for that matter) as trivial and thus become more likely to abuse and hurt their partners. I just hope the Radical Republicans plan on increasing funding for rape centers and women's shelters.
If recent precedent is any guide, ads made by NOW or the Girl Scouts suggesting that gender equality is a good thing or focusing on the "accomplishments" of women wouldn't be run by CBS and UPN on the grounds that said ads are too controversial.