'Why We Fight'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Nobody in my tribe has HIV.
Surely you're not going to stop there, if you've found the effective way to convince people (including IV drug users, and people who contract AIDS through methods that can't be forestalled with a condom) how to stay HIV negative, you should get a bigger megaphone.
Hey. Let us stay off the size of my megaphone for a moment.
Africa is not dying of AIDS because of injected drugs or transfusions. It is about sex.
In the cases of drugs, transfusions, and sex ... abstinence has little effect. Anywhere, in any culture.
In the cases of drugs, transfusions, and sex ... abstinence has little effect. Anywhere, in any culture.
It is how you persuade people to use condoms. And that varies froms culture to culture, from sub-culture to sub-culture, from micro-culture to micro-culture. All sorts of things come into play - including how easy it is to push women around, how easy it is to bash gays. And while condoms (and not sharing or at least sterilizing needles) are probably the primary means to prevent spread of HIV, they are not the only means. However - don't use this as a thread herring. Condoms and needle non-reuse/sterilization are the primary means; the primary question is how you promote that - and it varies a great deal from culture to culture.
Prevention in every one is the same.
Except for the ones where the men make all the decisions about sex and the women are forced to take it (and get infected) or beaten or worse. Or what about the tribes with superstitions and freaky (and misinformed "preventions" or "cures" like having sex with a virgin will cure you of AIDS). No, prevention is NOT the same in every single tribe, culture, ethnicity--the condoms may be the same, but getting the people to USE them requires a lot more delicate work than just walking in there and handing someone a condom.
don't use this as a thread herring...
Dude, if the herring has swum away from Race toward Culture, I am well satisfied.
My thread's the AIDS thread. Nice. Hey, how's this for AIDS awareness sloganeering?
"Condom, not condemn"
That can't be new, right?
Should we talk about the AIDS quilt to bring it back to crafts?
Tim, my hero ... gots to do it.
t slap!
Aren't you supposed to be making a new TV show, Tim?
Slack motherfucker. t /Superchunk
Oh, good. DavidS came along and was more offensive than me.