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News & ArtsWednesday, May 20, 2009
Sex Bristol Palin: Cover Girl
Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Remember, girls, there's nothing the least bit glamorous about premarital sex or teen pregnancy.
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"Girls need to imagine and picture their life with a screaming newborn baby and then think before they have sex," she tells PEOPLE. "Think about the consequences."
Urrrgh. Never mind the potential step of slapping on some latex? Well, clearly not in her case. The entire warped logic of the pro-abstinence argument is based on the lie that the only legit. sex is reproductive, and because sex always and automatically = a baby it is crucial to refrain.
Urrrgh. Never mind the potential step of slapping on some latex? Well, clearly not in her case. The entire warped logic of the pro-abstinence argument is based on the lie that the only legit. sex is reproductive, and because sex always and automatically = a baby it is crucial to refrain.
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The entire article is quote worthy. But what keeps surprising me is that occasional bits of wisdom like this:
"I'm thankful we didn't get married because if it wasn't going to work now, it wasn't going to work in five years."
keep slipping through the gates of guided press people and GOP handlers. That's the sort of advice she should be giving to teenagers. Don't marry the hot guy you're fucking if it seems like he has no future.
"I'm thankful we didn't get married because if it wasn't going to work now, it wasn't going to work in five years."
keep slipping through the gates of guided press people and GOP handlers. That's the sort of advice she should be giving to teenagers. Don't marry the hot guy you're fucking if it seems like he has no future.
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The parts about pumping milk before class and writing papers with a crying baby in the background had me feeling a little sympathy for her. Then I got to,
"If girls realized the consequences of sex, nobody would be having sex," says Bristol, sitting at her parents' lakeside patio table. "Trust me. Nobody."
Because the consequences of sex only affect girls, because rape/assault/coerced sex never happens, because effective contraception doesn't exist, because abortion isn't a legally guaranteed option. Agh! So many things wrong with this statement.
"If girls realized the consequences of sex, nobody would be having sex," says Bristol, sitting at her parents' lakeside patio table. "Trust me. Nobody."
Because the consequences of sex only affect girls, because rape/assault/coerced sex never happens, because effective contraception doesn't exist, because abortion isn't a legally guaranteed option. Agh! So many things wrong with this statement.
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If she just changed:
That would be much better, no?
"If girls realized the consequences of sex, nobody would be having sex. Trust me. Nobody."to
"If girls realized the consequences of unprotected sex, nobody would be having unprotected sex. Trust me. Nobody."
That would be much better, no?
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Nice touch, photographing her in her commencement attire; makes her look like she just graduated from "baby school", as well as conveying the subliminal impression that she's "smart" for the decisions she's made.
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Forgot what Bristol says, I think everyone is missing the point ...
She's on the fucking cover of People magazine. She's famous. Does anyone remember the names of Sarah Palin's other kids? I'd say that teen pregnancy launched Bristol's career, so what consequences is she supposed to be an example of again?
She's on the fucking cover of People magazine. She's famous. Does anyone remember the names of Sarah Palin's other kids? I'd say that teen pregnancy launched Bristol's career, so what consequences is she supposed to be an example of again?
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What ever happened to "leave the family out it"? That damned constant retort the wingnuts had everytime people mentioned the hypocrisy of Palin's ignorance-only education stance? Seems like media whoredom is the only trait passed down in that family.
After all, this is a girl named after the hometown of ESPN.
After all, this is a girl named after the hometown of ESPN.
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Bristol Palin isn't on the cover of People because she got knocked up. She's on the cover of People because she is the media-whoring daughter of a populist (vice-) presidential candidate. Any girl who is too dumb to understand that deserves what she gets.
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i'm going to go with the assumption that levi didn't make her come. she doesn't sound like she knows about multiple orgasms.
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Oh, I know, Kim - been there, done that. It's still a big improvement over having your teenage son walk in on you in the middle of getting a blowjob, though.
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Well, we were, um, kinda sorta on the living room couch. Spontaneity is a good thing, right? Ahem.
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@16,14 Kim, locks only get you so far. My husband and I told our 4-year-old we needed to talk, she should go play in her room. When we came out, she asked what we had been doing. I answered, "talking." She said she heard us and we weren't talking. We forgot the baby monitor was on (baby slept in our room, speaker was in the kitchen). I replied, "let's go to the park!!" and thankfully it was all forgotten...
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Fifty-Two-Eighty and Allyn,
Yes, spontaneity is a good thing. May I add that sounds that travel through heater vents can result in interesting conversations as well. Such, is the sex life of adults who reside with children. May the potential risk of getting caught never become an impediment to getting it on.
Yes, spontaneity is a good thing. May I add that sounds that travel through heater vents can result in interesting conversations as well. Such, is the sex life of adults who reside with children. May the potential risk of getting caught never become an impediment to getting it on.
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my favorite part was how she was bemoaning her fate FROM HER PARENT'S LAKESIDE HOME. waaaaaaaaaaah! when i was an 18 year old with a newborn i was living in a shitty 2 room apartment with a dopedealer living below me and a guy beating his wife upstairs. there was no cap and gown, and ten years later, THERE SURE AS SHIT STILL AREN'T ANY LAKESIDE HOMES WHERE I GET TO LIVE FOR FREE. I'm living in a slightly larger cottage in the boonies and busting my ass to raise a special needs child alone. fuck off, bristol.
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"If girls realized the consequences of sex, nobody would be having sex, ...Trust me. Nobody."
I'm confused. Does Abstinence Only not teach you about what happens when mr. boyfriend waves his pee pee around your hoo-ha?
I thought that was the point with the whole thing, to teach kids that sex is bad it leads to babies.
I'm confused. Does Abstinence Only not teach you about what happens when mr. boyfriend waves his pee pee around your hoo-ha?
I thought that was the point with the whole thing, to teach kids that sex is bad it leads to babies.
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"If girls realized the consequences of sex, nobody would be having sex," says Bristol, sitting at her parents' lakeside patio table. "Trust me. Nobody."
So where do guys figure into this? Is she saying that rampant unprotected sex among teenagers can only be attributed to *girls'* ignorance? If we ladies just could screw up our eyes and work our pretty little heads, guys would stop trying to fuck us?
So where do guys figure into this? Is she saying that rampant unprotected sex among teenagers can only be attributed to *girls'* ignorance? If we ladies just could screw up our eyes and work our pretty little heads, guys would stop trying to fuck us?
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@4, unfortunately, that's pretty much what people who grow up in "abstinence only" states are taught. I grew up in an abstinence-only public school system, and was fortunate enough to get a fairly comprehensive (age appropriate) sex education from my mother - which turned out to be a damn good thing, because "sex ed" at school consisted of "birth control always fails, sex will give you babies and AIDS and syphilis and gonorrhea and herpes, possibly all at the same time. Here are your reproductive parts, don't touch them, don't think about them, and don't use them, or you'll die (but not before you have a baby and get riddled with STDs)." No teenager would buy that as realistic - we all knew that nobody dropped over dead the day after they'd had sex - but they spent all their time telling us that birth control always fails, so most of the kids I grew up with assumed that condoms must not be worth using, and none of us knew why they seemed to break all the time (that's what happens when no one explains how to use one). We certainly weren't shown any of it or taught how to use it in order to reduce the chances of failure. My mother about had a stroke when, in my 20s, I casually mentioned that I'd never seen a condom until I was in college (where the first thing they did was herd all the freshmen into a room and show us how to use all kinds of birth control/protection/barriers imaginable); she'd just assumed that surely I'd seen *pictures*. Nope. No pictures of evil condoms in the textbooks, at least not in the Bible Belt.
All of which is why I can say from personal experience that abstinence only is some seriously dangerous bullshit. When my mother could get a more comprehensive sex ed class in her public school in the *fifties* than I got in the *nineties*, there's a problem.
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All of which is why I can say from personal experience that abstinence only is some seriously dangerous bullshit. When my mother could get a more comprehensive sex ed class in her public school in the *fifties* than I got in the *nineties*, there's a problem.
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Oh really Bristol? All teen moms swear off sex until they find a man to marry them huh? Since they're "learned" the consequences of sex? Somehow I don't think you'll find that's generally true.
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Wait, I'm totally confused! In her last interview she said that she's still in relationship with Levi Johnston. I wonder if she's going to marry him... You know, sometimes I think that if she didn't have her mother that was promoting "abstinence only" program , she, probably, would have known about contraceptives.
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